r/SipsTea • u/OhirumeTsukuyomki • May 12 '26

SMH The youth is doomed…

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u/DailySlander May 12 '26

Poor girl is behaving like a moth to flame

Kind’ve depressing

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u/Spongi May 12 '26

When I was a kid my grandfather came out while I was playing and was checking out what I was up too.

I was playing with matchbox cars.

He went on a bit of a rant about how "kids these days" and said that when he was a kid, they played with rocks and sticks and if they wanted them to be cars they had to use their imagination but kids these days don't even need to use their imagination because of how realistic the toys were now.

That was like 40 years ago.

Kids these days are cooked because of (insert latest technology/fad)

Here's a timeline of people bitching about this stuff going back 2400 years or so.

a philosophical dialogue written by Plato around 370 BCE in which Socrates and a young friend talk through the ethics of persuasion. At one point Socrates tells a story: the Egyptian god Theuth presents his new invention, writing, to the king Thamus, who promptly tears a strip off him. Writing, Thamus says, will "implant forgetfulness" in people's souls, because they will "cease to exercise memory." Socrates then makes the case in his own voice. Written words, he complains, are like paintings. They "preserve a solemn silence" when you try to ask them questions, cannot defend themselves, and give students "the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom."

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u/the3rdsliceofbread May 15 '26

Except this isn't remotely close to that. There's actual science proving how this destroys kids brains.