I can really recommend the mini series Adolesence on Netflix (or wherever) to get a great, dramatized example of how this effect looks like.
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Sometimes I wonder if the Internet should only be allowed for people 21 or 25 years or older.
21 is the new 16... 25 is the new 21.
But... At the same time older adults are extremely dumb too.
But giving a young person access to the Internet is like letting them walk NYC alone at night during the 70s.
Ever since Facebook and 9/11 the Internet has been kind of awful.
The problem is that parents - apparently - have no interest in educating their children anymore. They just place their kids in front of a PC or give them an iPad so they can watch TV or something.
Forbidding people from accessing the internet is going to raise a generation of children unfamiliar with it and then drifting off completely. Just look at the NK soldiers when they were shipped to russia and first had access to the internet. Half of them became porn addicts.
And also educating themselves. The kids will learn stuff, including slang, memes and concepts that are unknown to parents that don't spend as much time on these platforms. So they won't even recognize problematic ideas.
The problem is unfettered access, not access at all.
Forums with paywalls have always been way more civil so I agree.
We're in for a very, very stupid future.
Then BEAT THEM SENSELESS AND REMOVE THEIR SCREENS
In 10 years, it seems we not only gave up our own nations’ dreams of equality and union, but lustfully decided to lick the boots of those telling us our dreams aren’t worth having. It doesn’t help that the self-proclaimed “leader of the free world” is a known rapist who cuts deals with the Taliban at the expense of women’s liberties.
I remember in the first few years after 9/11 when you had Islamophobes talking about Islamic radicalism and comparing western culture to Islamic culture in what was, retrospectively, the most arrogant and extremely naieve view imaginable. Basically envisioning the entirety of the west in the late 90s and early 2000s as the west always being like that and the then status quo was done via some philosophical debate and innate characteristics instead of whatever was politically and economically convenient at the time.
I wonder where those people are today? Seeing just how legit fragile their whole order really was and how quickly it is unraveling.
Just proves he attracts the immature mind
Uhh, I mean, yes. But that's not the big own you think it is. He is SPECIFICALLY targeting children. It's the entire basis of his grift.
I think about just how many shitty fathers these kids have, most of them in the maga cult that are lapping up the likes of Carlson and Peterson's lessons on red pilled bullshit and condoning the behavior of their kids (albeit from a notably absent distance).
The only good think andrew tate has said is to work on building yourself and work hard. Beyond that, his talking points do more damage to society and bring a lot of harm.
Parents need to raise their children and stop letting social media do it.
Ironically jokes about the internet raising children is very old. There was a comic strip in Mad Magazine from the late 90s that had a boy go ask his mom 'mom, if God made everything, who made God?' She replies to go ask his dad, and when he does his dad replies, ' go ask the internet!'
It is still funny, but given the incredible amount of disinformation out there it just is a really bad idea.
I grew up on hip-hop music. I still am addicted to it... But damn that culture is awful. Most regular people think it's just entertainment and art.... But that culture is deep and evil. I get disgusted with myself after listening to "real rap". I understand and feel it but at the same time feel as though I'm nurturing a negative part of my soul when I listen to it or celebrate it.
I guess I related your comment to music raising me in the 90s and 00s.
I didn't really grow up listening to rap (as I grew up listening to all different kinds of music) but imo "real rap" is more like poetry and has a message or story to tell.
Children's Story by Slick Rick Literally anything by Digable Planets Most of Q-Tip and ATCQ's stuff
There are others, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head right now.
That's what I used to think to until I got deeper into it. The problem is that when I got deeper into knowing the scene "real" rap turned into real crime.
One of my favorite lyrics about hiphop;
"I used love her, but then they kidnapped her, Dragged her through the mud and shaved the fuckin hair off her."
Whether it's mainstream or street, it gets hunted until it can be monetized legally or illegally. Sure there are exceptions though.
Spitting for a click/gang is just a whack as spitting for the industry owners. It's all the same evil.
Brother Ali is great example of someone that stayed authentically true and matured as human being. Listen to his first album, and then listen to satisfied soul.
What if their parents are shitty and encouraging this type of behavior?
The Andrew tate type people tend to have kids because they want sex and that's all they think about. They don't think critically about contraception, or long term decision making. Then they either abandon the child/mother, or raise it to be an asshole.
You’re not wrong. Parents can be contributing just as much to the problem. I guess the only common source would be social media in general.
Those little shits should be slapped by their mom's when they get home from school. Suburban trash.
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