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sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

What if I told you that this is just how the media treats everything, including whatever moral panic whoever is reading this believes in?

Yes, even that one. No, that one's not real either. Yes, I know you saw it on TV.

I think one of the key things we need to be teaching our kids about everything from technology to nature is to think for themselves and apply rigor to make sure that they're not being let down the garden path. In the book I wrote to my son, the first chapter is not about the basics, it's that he should question everything including and especially me.

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joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s the point Douglas Adams was making with this quote:

I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

This is exactly how these moral panics go. It’s always relatively to the world the person grew up in.
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