I’d agree with you but then the older generations aren’t any better, nobody can top boomers for sheer ignorance and gullibility. Social media in general is a cancer, ALL of it, ban tik tok and all that garbage will just move on to instagram or Snapchat.
Kids grow up in the society that was made for them by previous generations, China didn’t dumb down America. I always hear we used to have the best education system in the world, maybe if we had put tens of trillions of dollars into schools, instead of playing global cop we wouldn’t be in this situation? That’s sort of off topic but I clearly see the connection, my high school was so broke we had one copy machine for almost 5,000 students. And when it was working it printed out unidentifiable blobs of ink, it was insanity, but we had limitless funds for tanks and airplanes that not even the military needed. Somehow I don’t think that’s an issue in first world nations, or in China. This decline will only get worse as in China kids are learning engineering before they can walk (exaggeration I know), and American kids will be taught religion and how Dinosaurs walked the Earth with man. 😅
Boomers and Gen X/Y are gullible (spreading fake news / scams etc ...) but fewer "addicted" to brain rot.
Teens and Z,Alpha on the other hand will happily to sit and watch literally anything that moves on a screen regardless of the content, probably with subtitles even if the audio is in their native tongue. Skibidy Toilet - WTF.
The US is only
one country where Social media is screwing up kids, other countries that have decent education systems are also suffering, maybe not at the same rate - it'd be interesting to see a study on the targeting of Tik Tok US vs Switzerland for example.
It's not just education systems at fault, it's what kids are exposed to daily in (primarily western society) on TV/Social media and the streets.
Growing up the most graphic movie scenes I think we ever saw was RoboCop 1 and 2 which were both R-rated at the time. The 2014 Robocop was PG and had probably one of the most "disturbing" scenes of realism I've ever witnessed in a movie with the brain in a tank.
I'm genuinely not someone who shys away from ultra violence in movies, being well adjusted n' all. Anything by Tarantino, Dexter, Hannibal, The Boys and lots of ultra violent Japanese flicks.
But highly graphic violence, death, sex and the extreme levels of detail in shows and movies on TV / Streaming are not anomalies anymore. There's no 'late night nasties", instead what you want when you want 24/7 in extreme High Def on massive screens, not some 20" 520 line CRT with rolling static.
Media in general now feeds on the the sicker, primal side of human nature which in years gone by would have been experienced by a tiny minority of society e.g. soldiers / emergency services / hunters ... and it screwed many of them up. We're basically bypassing PTSD by normalizing the disgusting and adult sides of humanity from an early age.
Honestly I think AU's social media ban is a well intended plan that will likely. The genie is already out of the bottle, kids will find a way unless the platforms become dormant of enough of the Rot. Foreign unfriendly states fanning the flames in whatever direction
they want is not the 'help" that broken societies need.
Youtube looks like open university compared to the rest of the platforms (except shorts which are almost as bad).
The BlackMirror episode 'Nosedive" is a scarily accurate description of where we are headed if "something" isn't done to clip the wings of social media companies' grasp of humanity.
On that pleasant society is screwed rant, happy holidays 😂
