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Another thing to think about is how these things obliterate creativity - In school If I was bored I would doodle in the back of my notebooks during class. Drawings of things, places, trying to do nature scenes. But mostly drawings of machinery, robots and electronics nonsense. Towards senor year when I learned some programming it was code. Those little ephemera works feel important - exercises of the mind, creativity…
It's not that they obliterate creativity, it's that they shape it in one or two very specific ways. Let me tell a story with some background as an example: Our rule in our family is that smart devices are a reward; finish your chores, get x number of minutes on tablet; do a good dead unasked get x number of minutes on tablet, that sort of thing. The one major difference in our family is that all smart devices (save f…
Not much difference than pretending to be the thunder cats or GI Joe when I was a kid. But the whole shouting for attention thing is disturbing. Someone here once pointed out that kids emulating influencers is giving kids the same mental issues that hollywood actors have from maintaining social images. It's disturbing.