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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months 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@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

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

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10 months ago

Somebody been watching too many tik toks

What a ridiculous logical leap.
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  Erm ackchually it’s called an insult and it wasn’t meant to convey a logical point

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