The advent of the digital revolution effectively prevented you and your generation from being insulated from chaff, culturally speaking. Previously, children learned from Mother Goose and Aesop's Fables, which were rehashes of Greek morality tales. Essentially: Life, and life's decisions, and right and wrong, have always been the same.
Today's "children's entertainment" should be read as: "I'm charged with filling in the cracks of the TV dictum, so I'm going to give you my own sick fantasies."
Even when I was a young child, which wasn't really that long ago, the programming wasn't this ... meaningless. It's amazing how dumbed down children's entertainment (and... come to think of it, all ages' entertainment) became in a matter of a decade and a half.
I mean, really. This gummibar thing doesn't even make sense!.
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Oh, jeeze. Truly scary.
The advent of the digital revolution effectively prevented you and your generation from being insulated from chaff, culturally speaking. Previously, children learned from Mother Goose and Aesop's Fables, which were rehashes of Greek morality tales. Essentially: Life, and life's decisions, and right and wrong, have always been the same.
Today's "children's entertainment" should be read as: "I'm charged with filling in the cracks of the TV dictum, so I'm going to give you my own sick fantasies."
Thinks me, anyway.
Even when I was a young child, which wasn't really that long ago, the programming wasn't this ... meaningless. It's amazing how dumbed down children's entertainment (and... come to think of it, all ages' entertainment) became in a matter of a decade and a half.
I mean, really. This gummibar thing doesn't even make sense!.
No, it doesn't!
And you're right; when you were small, at least there was Mr. Rogers, Barney, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Recess and a few other gems.
Ah, well.
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