causes you to become more and more delusional as the video input tricks your brain into thinking video = reality/experience.
The quintesential boomer meme.
ironically is the same argument that was directed at books for hundreds of years, already a thing in the middle ages , so present that the idea was parodied by one of the great characters in literature of all time, Don Quixote, a dude that read so much books that he became a mentally ill larper and it ruined all distinction between fiction reality. Of course, readers became more and more dellusional as the brain can't possibly make the distinction between imagining a thing happening from reading it in a book and it happening for real. Ancient people didn't had technology and still had stageplays and performances, were they unable to separate reality from fiction? someone mush have thought so, since theater was banned from many times in many places through history
Eventually we see it shifting in the XXth century as "newspapers, comics, pulp novels and magazines turn you stupid and dellusional, but not real books, real books smart", and in the TV and then internet age it shifts even more towards "all books are smart, is those pesky televisions that turns kids stupid and make them not be able to distinguish reality, turn off the tv and go read a book" then its "videogames are literally killing our children" to "phone bad book good"
In my opinion, is not the medium, is how you choose to interact with it, you also don't need books or movies or the internet to become a dellusional retard, thats very much a consequence of will. Is like blaming food for obesity when its really your responsibility what you eat and how. I also strongly believe that instead of media making people dumber is the other way around, people are already retarded and they force the media to become dumber, you see it happening exponentially faster as markets for entertainment grow in recent years , since the incentive is to hit a wider global demographic mainstream products have to lower the bar more and more else it doesn't appeal to the kind of niggers and third worlders that would be buying the product, the kind that could be scared away by even an inkling of a challenge to the viewer. The more 2deep4u something is the more niche it is, popular books are easy books, the more challenging they get the more they alienate most people. So smart media doesn't make the niggers smarter, it just makes niggers not buy it.
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