| crissindahouse said: Social media is truly a disease if it comes to how people perceive information. It's the same in Germany. We have much less homicides as 20-30 years ago but our Nazi party is gaining more and more votes and many of them come from people who think we live in a country where you can't walk 5 meters without fear anymore. We have one of the lowest homicide rates of the planet but hey, guys like Elon Musk and obviously our Nazi party always tell us how Germany went downhill so it has to be true! And when I tell those people that they read the damn news 150 times a day and watch 500 videos a day but in the past they just checked a newspaper in the morning and watched the news on TV at 8pm so that this is the reason why it sounds much worse to them they are just too stupid to get it. When I was a child (between 6-9 years old) I was the whole day alone with my bike in the village I lived then. Some friends lived 7km away and I went alone to them on my bike and nobody gave a shit. Nowadays nobody even in that village which probably never had something bad happening the last 50 years will let their kid walk alone to the school even if it's just 500 meters away. This is just insanity nowadays. |
Yep same here. I grew up in the 80s in a city of 150k, basically lived on the street. Parents didn't even want their kids inside, messing up the house lol. We always played wherever we liked, including construction sites, train tracks, ponds, hitching a ride on a tractor. We cycled to a lake nearby to swim or to the forest to build underground forts. (bit older 12+ by the time we started cycling out of town on our own)
The only directive was, come home for dinner of call if you're having dinner at a friend's house. Which was very common. My wife's brother was so cheeky growing up he called around to see what his friends were having for dinner then go to the one that sounded the best lol.
Maybe another difference is in 'framing'. We were warned about white vans and flashers (never saw one). And to this day, white vans still look suspicious lol. But then it all changed into "stranger danger". And what do you know, now we have whole xenophobic generations walking around...
Plus now they say "stranger danger" is by far the least worrisome for kids.
https://theheartfulparent.com/news/updating-your-safety-tools-making-stranger-danger-a-phrase-of-the-past/
And yep, the news was at 8pm plus a news paper in the morning. No hysterics, small comment section in the paper, that was it. People didn't worry about what happened anywhere in the country all the time. Plus you talked to neighbors, not echo chambers.
