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by clay_the_ripper 312 days ago
“the cave paintings of nudes are corrupting the neanderthal youth”

and yet - somehow we always survive.

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Your snarkiness aside, what’s different is:

A) The scale. It’s not a small number seeing the cave paintings

B) It’s who pulling to strings. Behind every screen based experience is some Big Inc doing all it can to influence you in way that often are not in your best interest.

I recommend reading “Stand out of our light” and if you have the time “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism “. Cave paintings would be welcomed compared to what is effectively psychologically warfare.

There is also a massive emerging class difference between the iPad kids and the children of the rich.
Every time I see a 3-5 year old in a stroller on the subway staring at a phone their parent passed them, or worse, has dedicated to the child's entertainment (stroller mount included), my heart breaks a little more - though when my own preschooler won't stay in his seat and insists on standing while the train's in motion (his balance is really good, but oh, the looks I get), I'm a little tempted.
Who is this "we" who always survive? 99% of humans went extinct, historians say.