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Showerthoughts • 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 • 1 year ago

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

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If I sold newspapers, and I heard the radio spreading the news as well, you bet your ass I’m going to slander the shit out of it.

Which is why lots of people believe the storiea abour “War of the Worlds”. Because of newspaper lies.

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