> Bas Autowas Wrote:
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> Before there was internet your world was infinitely smaller so the
> chance of interacting with assholes was also infinitely smaller. The
> amount has remained the same.
>
> On the subject of being taught things by "people up the street" that
> still happens when you allow your kids out on the street. I'm shure it's
> not this way in all of the US, but I've seen news articles about people
> getting child services after them because they let their kid walk to
> school by himself.
>
> When i was young i frequently stopped by an old bicycle shop in the
> neighbourhood and the guy that worked there showed me how to fix
> bicycles. When i needed my bicycle fixed he would always refuse and
> instead tell me how to do it. I learned so much from that man, sadly he
> passed away last year.
^ So true, get this, when in 2nd and 3rd grade, we used to be dismissed from school to walk home for lunch and then walk back to school for the afternoon, then back home, sometimes walked with friends, sometimes alone, all the kids did it, it was not far, but no one thought a thing about it. Bet that is not going on today! I don't totally hate the internet, but I think when it became destructive/too invasive, was with the advent of the smart phone, you now can be bombarded with pop culture/advertising ALL the time, and it is too much, too easy, people are tuned out to the actual world, living instead in the virtual, and that just can't be healthy.