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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Parents used to warn their kids that literature would rot their brains. Then it was the radio, TV, and video games. Now it's TikTok.

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Parents used to warn their kids that literature would rot their brains. Then it was the radio, TV, and video games. Now it's TikTok.

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Socrates bemoaned those young’ns who had the audacity to read their Homer, instead of memorizing it.

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The point was people are always looking for a scapegoat when they don’t understand shit. I’m not the one to “learn to read”

Edit: what the hell is that username

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