Well, I'm saying this as an atheist (technically agnostic but it's pretty much the same thing).

I grew up in in middle of that stuff and the arguments they levelled at media were so laughably assinine to my ears, it genuinely felt like listening to a small child talking about something they had no idea about.

Now, it turns out they did know something. The argument they should have been making is that, as much as people don't like to believe it, half the population is fucking stupid and this level of advanced escapism is going result in literally millions of cases of arrested development, and we'll have a generation that is more interested in playing games and never ending their teenage rebellion phase. That instead of getting jobs and having children and keeping society running, they'd sooner ignore all of the wisdom that built what we have, just so that they can live in this illusion of never-ending youth and play where reality is ignored the rules of their fantasies are what they seek to live by.

It would've been harder to parse than the claim of 'satanism', but also harder to dismiss.

Well, I'm saying this as an atheist (technically agnostic but it's pretty much the same thing).

I grew up in in middle of that stuff and the arguments they levelled at media were so laughably assinine to my ears, it genuinely felt like listening to a small child talking about something they had no idea about.

Now, it turns out they did know something. The argument they should have been making is that, as much as people don't like to believe it, half the population is fucking stupid and this level of advanced escapism is going result in literally millions of cases of arrested development, and we'll have a generation that is more interested in playing games and never ending their teenage rebellion phase. That instead of getting jobs and having children and keeping society running, they'd sooner ignore all of the wisdom that built what we have, just so that they can live in this illusion of never-ending youth and play where reality is ignored the rules of their fantasies are what they seek to live by.

It would've been harder to parse than the claim of 'satanism', but also harder dismiss.

Well, I'm saying this as an atheist (technically agnostic but it's pretty much the same thing).

I grew up in in middle of that stuff and the arguments they levelled at media were so laughably assinine to my ears, it genuinely felt like listening to a small child talking about something they had no idea about.

Now, it turns out they did know something. The argument they should have been making is that, as much as people don't like to believe it, half the population is fucking stupid and this level of advanced escapism is going result in literally millions of cases of arrested development, and we'll have a generation that is more interested in playing games and never ending their teenage rebellion phase. That instead of getting jobs and having children and keeping society running, they'd sooner ignore all of the wisdom that built what we have, just so that they can live in this illusion of never-ending youth and play.

It would've been harder to parse than the claim of 'satanism', but also harder dismiss.