Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
On Sunday last week, Damascus fell to Salafi terrorists and other imperialist-aligned forces. Regardless of the flaws of the ousted government, this is a horrible situation for the Syrian proletariat as well as for the people of Palestine, Lebanon and others. We can only hope for the perseverance of the Syrian workers and the remaining anti-colonial resistance.
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I have a very, very, very strong feeling that the complaints about how Gen Alpha is "ruined by screens, entitlement, permissive parenting" is nothing but nonsense that is not very different at all from how previous generations were complained about. They even complained about "today's youth" in ancient Greece, Egypt, and Sumer!
It's an outdated mindset that I sadly see all around me, even among many progressives.
Idk I guess you could make a point about screens. I read the other day about how there is an increase of children with eyesight problems probably caused by sitting too close to a screen from a young age. Also, some of the content for kids is literal brainrot lol.
But I guess that then just boils down to what content they consume and not just screens in general.
I think there's a little truth in both. It was hard to sit eye-to-eye with old school CRT monitors and such. But nowadays we have 4k, full resolution, bright plasma tv screens with more and more details that even I noticed I have to sit closer to "take it all in".
Brain rot existed even far back then. Howdy Doody show? Watching it now is almost hilarious because it just makes zero sense.
Remember when when everyone said T.V. would rot kids brains? All the people who grew up watching T.V. are now saying Phones will rot kids brains. Either they have brain rot or they are making shit up just like their parents and grandparents did.