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I lean toward "efficient entertainment", but I do sometimes wonder what that chunk of my free time would look like otherwise.
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I would imagine every generation had their vices (lack of better word) that previous generations harped on. Why back in my day it was MTV (ok, occasionally they were right). But I’m sure when newspapers came out it was similar to tablets and phones. When tv came out, the radio-heads bitched about the “idiot box”. So on and so forth. Any history buffs out there care to elaborate?
You can find newspaper articles from the late 1800s IIRC, that decry the slothful youth wasting all their time reading novels instead of playing outside like the glorious generation before them
Longer than that. 2500 years ago ancient greek philosophers complained about the youth in the same ways.
One of the oldest written works that we have, and can translate, was written centuries before the Roman empire and it is complaining about "kids these days".
This crap has been going on for millennia.
It is commonly attributed to Socrates or Plato, but apparently the real quote was made by some student for his Cambridge Dissertation in 1907
Well, I'd rather the youth were reading books instead of watching 5 second clips
https://scribe.rip/message/why-chess-will-destroy-your-mind-78ad1034521f
Thank you very much for sharing that article! t's an awesome read.
it was called the boob tube
“Stop sitting so close, you’ll damage your eyes! Sit farther back!”
Pastime I think is the correct term.