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Aerbil313yesterday at 7:19 PM1 replyview on HN

You are downvoted, but you are totally right. Humans are not meant to cry daily over stuff that happens half a world away, or be exposed to a thousand new strangers every day. But thanks to internet, your mom and aunt can have an endless fuel to their various anxieties and your daughter can have eating disorders comparing herself to celebrities.

Bring a pre-internet pre-24/7 TV person to present day and they’ll spot the problem straight away. Amusing Ourselves To Death was written in reaction to the societal changes brought by the TV. What about the impact of Internet news, and Facebook, and Tiktok?


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logicchainsyesterday at 7:24 PM

>You are downvoted, but you are totally right. Humans are not meant to cry daily over stuff that happens half a world away

You mean humans are not meant to learn about the atrocities their government is funding half a world away.

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