• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I remember “It’s 10 pm, do you know where your children are?” being asked every night before the local news.

    ‘Stand By Me’ was a movie about four boys disappearing for a weekend and not one parent was arrested.

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        1 month ago

        My parents didn’t come looking, it was just if you came in the door after they got that announcement they knew to beat us. If we were in before it they didn’t have to do anything in their mind

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          It was only after that ad when my mom come looking for us. She only beat us if she couldn’t find us.

          Only rule we had was be home when the street lights came on.

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      Wasn’t that to remind parents that they had kids since most were taking drugs or alcohol to cope with life?

      You say the first one like it’s a GOOD thing, that campaign has led to ridicule of an entire generation, and you point to that like it’s a good thing…?

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        1 month ago

        I dunno if “remembering” something is so strong an act as to imply an opinion, positive or negative.

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        No, it was a false presupposition being planted by the power structure to subconsciously reframe people’s stance toward the world.

        In this case, it was the nanny state pushing us down the cultural evolutionary path to where we are now, which is safety-obsessed.

        New norms being injected into the populace by media.

        Imagine the long term effects on the culture if the message were “It’s 10 pm. Are all the burners on your stove off?”

        Imagine if the news said this to everyone, every day.

        Imagine the long term effects of that innocent question’s repetition on later decades’ total incidence of OCD or anxiety disorders.

        The key point isn’t that parents had to be reminded — they didn’t. They wanted to frame it as if they had to be reminded.

        You can inject a presupposed fact into the unconscious frame people use to see their reality by doing this.

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          1 month ago

          At least one guy jumped out of his chair and drove to the track field to pick up the kid they forgot that they were supposed to collect at 9pm

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            1 month ago

            Yeah no doubt. And there were people whose houses burned down because the government didn’t ask about the stoves.

            There are always gonna be dangers we can diminish by drawing attention to them.

            There are always going to be long-term affects of those repeated attention shifts too, and of the manner in which they happen.