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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Please๐Ÿ˜ณ rise ๐Ÿ˜Ž for the ๐Ÿคจ national ๐Ÿ anthem ๐ŸŽถ of boomers ๐Ÿคช
๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ
Video Games ๐ŸŽฎ cause violence ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿผ,
Phone ๐Ÿ“ฑ bad ๐Ÿ‘Ž, book ๐Ÿ“š good ๐Ÿ‘
I hate ๐Ÿ˜’ my wife ๐Ÿ‘ฐ
Pause โธ๏ธ the Fortnite ๐Ÿฅ‡ please ๐Ÿ˜ค
Funny ๐Ÿคฃ Facebook ๐Ÿ˜œ minion ๐Ÿคญ memes ๐Ÿคช

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no connection to any of those except phone bad book good. That's just observable fact.

[โ€“] paultimate14 11 points 1 year ago

When books started being mass-produced and publicly available, there was push back against those. Readers were portrayed as detached from reality, academic snobs, losers. Even today, there are significant political pushes to ban books and defund libraries.

Television, telephones, railroads, electricity, the printing press. There always have been (and probably always will be) people afraid of change who blame new technologies for the evils they see in society.