I grew up when there was no internet. We didn't even know what other countries looked like except from pictures in books in school and magazines, but we knew those were curated. You kids today are bombarded with cold reality consistently.

Man, I taught kids for a while a few years back (so the ones I taught would be graduating college rn at the latest or in the middle of highschool at the youngest) and they know just as much about the world now as I did a decade ago and as much as a sibling of mine knew when they were in school in the 90s and as much as older relatives of mine did when they were coming of age in the 80s and earlier. Just because they can potentially see and learn about anywhere and anyone in the world today doesn't mean they are. I mean, come on, what's the internet most used for? Porn and entertainment. Hell, what'd people use actually printed stuff for in the 1800 and 1900s? Penny dreadfuls, trashy pulp fiction, erotica, pot-boiler paid-by-the-word novels, godawful "journalism" masquerading as news.

Same shit different decade. The only difference in this regard is you could at least get a break from the torrent of trash back before, hell I'd say even the 2010s. Back, coincidentally enough, before everyone had goddamned smartphones.

I grew up when there was no internet. We didn't even know what other countries looked like except from pictures in books in school and magazines, but we knew those were curated. You kids today are bombarded with cold reality consistently.

Man, I taught kids for a while a few years back (so the ones I taught would be graduating college rn at the latest or in the middle of highschool at the youngest) and they know just as much about the world now as I did a decade ago and as much as a sibling of mine knew when they were in school in the 90s and as much as older relatives of mine did when they were coming of age in the 80s and earlier. Just because they can potentially see and learn about anywhere and anyone in the world today doesn't mean they are. I mean, come on, what's the internet most used for? Porn and entertainment. Hell, what'd people use actually printed stuff for in the 1800 and 1900s? Penny dreadfuls, trashy pulp fiction, erotica, pot-boiler paid-by-the-word novels.

Same shit different decade. The only difference in this regard is you could at least get a break from the torrent of trash back before, hell I'd say even the 2010s. Back, coincidentally enough, before everyone had goddamned smartphones.