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• Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “People shouldn’t consume media” is a hot new take I didn’t expect. A call to return to sitting on the porch and aimlessly staring at the neighborhood for hours while sipping on sweet tea and smoking a pipe.

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  • who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is a plethora of activities besides watching TV. Have we been so spoiled by endless entertainment that we forgot that? Our local communities are nonexistent, maybe sitting on your porch you could meet some neighbors, have a real conversation; build back what was lost.

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    • Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are, but they’re all entertainment media. Books, television, games, every avenue of entertainment is being steadily hypercapitalized and compartmentalized. Communities aren’t failing because people have entertainment, they’ve fallen apart because the outside world has almost no places left where people can freely gather. You don’t meet your neighbors because there aren’t any sidewalks, because the parks need to be driven to, because downtown has strip malls instead of boardwalks where people can gather.

      I grew up hanging out in the Walmart parking lot because that’s the only place we wouldn’t be shooed away. Entertainment is what fills the absence of community, not the cause of it.

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      • who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t know where you live, sounds awful. I certainly have sidewalks, walkable trails to public houses and parks. Multiple libraries with groups, activities, classes, community action groups. Two large commercial areas, one a vibrant downtown area, the other admittedly is a dead mall. Natural areas, concert venues, small shops. I could go on. Have you really tried to meet your neighbors? I can’t avoid mine just walking the damn dog. Maybe im privileged, but I would rather stare out my windows than pay for multiple streaming services.

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      • qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        …they’ve fallen apart because the outside world has almost no places left where people can freely gather.

        I’m sorry that has been your experience; it has not been mine. I can walk to several wonderful parks, I can bike (or take a $3 bus) to the beach, and I have world-class cycling destinations out my door.

        Alternately, I have three or four libraries within about a 20m walking distance.

        That said, yes, I do live in a high CoL area, so perhaps that was the point you were making.

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