well, I think it's important to recognize that people are products of their environment, and we've all been indoctrinated into this media-obsessed culture from a very young age by predatory capitalists and marketing ghouls
the social fabric of the west is practically non-existent. we're dealing with pretty extreme social atomization and lack of community, there are fewer and fewer IRL opportunities to have fun or socialize, and what little there is has become prohibitively expensive to the average person. this was all true before COVID, which made all these problems significantly worse
so taking this all into account it's not hard to understand why so many spend the majority of their free time consuming media as an escape from the cruel, unjust banality of contemporary western society. so maybe cut 'em some slack, idk
unless they watch reality TV. there's no excuse for that
well, I think it's important to recognize that people are products of their environment, and we've all been indoctrinated into this media-obsessed culture from a very young age by predatory capitalists and marketing ghouls
the social fabric of the west is practically non-existent. we're dealing with pretty extreme social atomization and lack of community, there are fewer and fewer IRL opportunities to have fun or socialize, and what little there is has become prohibitively expensive to the average person. this was all true before COVID, which made all these problems significantly worse
so taking this all into account it's not hard to understand why so many spend the majority of their free time consuming media as an escape from the cruel, unjust banality of contemporary western society. so maybe cut 'em some slack, idk
unless they watch reality TV. there's no excuse for that