It's very good but too depressing. Satire needs some humour. Lots of things on the money though especially the zombie addiction to mobile phones.
It's good but a little too simplistic in it's view that we're all idiots/zombies/self centered. People have obsessed about the latest trend or celebrity for decades it's just that we're all connected now so it's easy to share our wants and needs. It is going too far with some people but again is that normal? We may just be more aware of it because of the ability to share. Each generation thinks the modern world is ****ed and that it was better back in the day. There's certainly some truth in what is a very good animation but I'm not so sure I buy into this we're all doomed rhetoric.
It's been going on for over a century apparently. I watched one of the news channels last week and they showed in the 19th century ppl would book rooms to use the camera of the day to take selfies. Iirc there's a picture of the first selfie ever taken. Having said that I think social media and the fact we're all so very much connected has been a greater influence in how we socialise and how we develop more than anything invented before it. I'm thinking of the wholesale change in behaviour of kids in particular. Just don't see them playing out on the road for example and there's a lot to be said from doing that or wandering about with your mates. They don't know how to interact or adapt to social situations. Also there's less awareness of the broader world around them which seems insane given the fact we are so well connected, but imo that's bcos most of what the yoof access is very narrow and ironially shows that it limits experiences and general knowledge not broadens them.
Yeah social media will influence some and I do think there's an issue with kids today but I'm not sure it's really that bad. Loads of ****ing headcases when I was young, they also had no social skills and didn't play well with others, they had no idea of the broader world because they came from poorer households and couldn't afford to go anywhere. I could be wrong but it's more likely to be the world we live in and what goes on around us that affects the youth more than social media they get information from the internet via social media fed to them the same as we would have seen the news on tv or papers and when everything you see is the people around you lying, cheating, killing and just generally being ****s it affects the way you behave. It's the same story just told slightly differently.
I hear you and I get it. I mentioned playing out on the road or wandering the town or fields or streets because you did that from poorer backgrounds. I say that bcos I came from one. I know there were some wronguns who didn't play well with others but look at this way the rest of us came across them and we learned from it. As much as we did if not more than we could with ppl we could socialise with. That is what many kids are missing out on and I feel they wouldn't have clue how to deal with different situations in the real world. Even on this place we post in different ways to how we behave in real life to a certain extent. What ppl and kids are exposed to on social media isn't always real and imo what you and I experienced growing up and being out and about reflected people for real far more than the stuff posted on twitter or insta or whatever. Just my feeling on it that's all but I do get what you're saying. I'm not one for believing in some romanticised nostalgic view of the world. I bet 40 years from now someone will be saying how it was so much better back in the day when there was Tiktok.
I also agree with you, there may well be things going on in our kids lives that we cannot understand and that is down to social media or at least the easy access to media that kids have and it probably isn't good for them and will have an affect on their behaviour but I'm thinking that it may well be a bit of an easy label to stick on society at the moment and we're maybe missing the bigger picture. That being the leaders of the world and the rich and famous showing the young that you can do what you like and you don't have to be a good person or live a good life, you can be a **** and get away with it. Same as it ever was.
Nothing to do with the conversation, just one of my favourites by the best band ever to come out of the US with a Scottish lead singer.
