Comment by vitaelabitur
3 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba5HllbvLf4, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) Ending
I was a quiet kid. Books, shows, and films shaped my sensibilities and moral tastes.
I wonder if that remains possible today. Content designed solely for the dopamine hit seems to crowd out everything else.
There is a lot of recent kids programming that’s pretty amazing - Stillwater, Wolf Boy, Pinecone and Pony
That might be the case. Maybe I am writing from a place of nostalgia and subconscious declinism.
> I wonder if that remains possible today.
Parents still have the ability to raise their children according to their own values, despite the most earnest and eager intentions of the dopamine-dealing crowd. That bug hasn't yet been engineered out of society.
You are right, parents can still steer their children.
But in some cases like mine, parents might not have the time or inclination to do so, for whatever reasons.
I was able to discover Pickwick Papers, Hardy Boys, Harry Potter, Lord of the Flies, Spirited Away, Almost Famous, etc. on my own. If I were young today, I don't think I would discover the right things.
Yet when we do this by, say, homeschooling, the HN commentariat piles up hundreds of comments accusing us of child neglect and a lack of concern for society.
Do they? I've mentioned homeschooling on hn before without issue. There's always knobs who can't have a nuanced view of course, but generally the discussions I've seen have tended positive.
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