nowan

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents used to warn their kids that literature would rot their brains. Then it was the radio, TV, and video games. Now it's TikTok.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth pointing out here is that many of these criticisms all along have been totally on-target. The printing press brought on wars of religion and a multitude of poorly-thought out, often racist/hate-filled screeds along with advances in learning and science. Radio has brought us Father Coughlin and Limbaugh along with democratizing politics the way printed pamphlets couldn't. I'm sure I don't have to point out that both TV and the internet have their brain-rotting sides as well.

  The fact that something won doesn't mean it's better. The fact that it's better doesn't mean it doesn't have serious flaws.