Everything we 'know' is mediated: shaped for, encapsulated in and conveyed by advertizing, public relations and behavioral psychology.More and more "primary acculturation" is occurring in "on-line" situations, less and less at home or in school or anywhere else, interpersonally.
Parents put phones in kids' hands long before there is any need to, if they were adequately prepared to be parents.
Which many if not most present-day parents are emphatically NOT. Mothers grocery shopping while gossipping to a pal ignore their kids and send them a clear message.
The entire internet culture is designed to ensnare users in a never-ending whirl of consumption and information and sales and tchotchkes couched in tropes that are the products of more than 100 years of hyper-persuasive, seemingly irefutable, highly sophisticated propagandas, i.e., the advertisingand public relations industry.
The earlier kids are permitted and encouraged to become embroiled in it, the more dependent upon it they will become.
Parents put phones in kids' hands long before there is any need to, if they were adequately prepared to be parents.
Which many if not most present-day parents are emphatically NOT. Mothers grocery shopping while gossipping to a pal ignore their kids and send them a clear message.
The entire internet culture is designed to ensnare users in a never-ending whirl of consumption and information and sales and tchotchkes couched in tropes that are the products of more than 100 years of hyper-persuasive, seemingly irefutable, highly sophisticated propagandas, i.e., the advertisingand public relations industry.
The earlier kids are permitted and encouraged to become embroiled in it, the more dependent upon it they will become.
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