Yeah, I was calling out conventional wisdom for getting the problem wrong. The point is two-fold. One is that most pre-teens have functioning mental faculties (warped only by being in an artificial half-prison environment for half their waking-hours) aren't going to have a mental affliction upon voluntary exposure to gruesome material. Do adults really develop amnesia around the nonsense they got up to in 5th-6th grade? The second is that we really ought to tackle how we let so many kids and parents get accustomed to corporate junk-media of various forms over the past century. All I'm concerned about is if kids are developing critical thinking skills and media literacy, not if Timmy sees a violent cutscene in Call of Duty.
Yeah, I was calling out conventional wisdom for getting the problem wrong. The point is two-fold. One is that most pre-teens have functioning mental faculties (warped only by being in an artificial half-prison environment for half their waking-hours) aren't going to have a mental affliction upon voluntary exposure to gruesome material. Do adults really develop amnesia around the nonsense they got up to in 5th-6th grade? The second is that we really ought to tackle how we let so many kids and parents get accustomed to corporate junk-media of various forms over the past century. All I'm concerned about is if kids are developing critical thinking skills and media literacy, not if Timmy sees a violent cutscene in Call of Duty.