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139 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder 26 Jan \ on: Reality fracture mostly_harmless
i've thought about this in a different way and from the lens of my kids.
So for context, I'm from the UK, wife is Russian and we live in Bulgaria, my kids are therefore not culturally one thing (this is called being a 3rd culture kid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid)
Anyway, I think back to when I grew up and if you were a kid of the 80s and 90s in the West, in general, you had a shared cultural identity of the same cartoons, entertainment etc.
Now I think it has just shifted because everyone consumes their own media and it's either youtube, shittok or netflix. before you had the cartoons on after school, that was it.
So there is a downside in that we're all getting a different thing, but an upside in that, people have their own little minitribes.
one upside IMO is I notice the kids watch the same YouTubers as each other and the same one that a kid in the UK would watch. while I think it's garbage, my kids could go most places and they're all enjoying the same awful skibidi toilet jokes and playing Minecraft as everyone else.
So there is a downside in that we're all getting a different thing, but an upside in that, people have their own little minitribes.
I'm very glad to get this message -- as with @Undisciplined's point earlier, the idea that perhaps there is an overlay, where people know the people around them way less, and perhaps intergenerationally way less, but nonetheless have some sort of common cultural ties on another temporal/spatial scale, feels less apocalyptic.
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