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I wish there was video of this from 50 feet away to just show how ridiculously embarrassing it is.
This is a grown ass man too
https://xkcd.com/37/
I mean, that’s kinda arguable. Emotionally he’s maybe 13.
https://xkcd.com/37/
hes a grown ass-man not a grown-ass man
Grown, but not matured.
Since I've had a kid of my own I'm quickly come to realize that a lot of the "adults" I encounter literally just never learned how some basic lessons on how to act in a group. It's become painfully obvious spending all day with a toddler and then seeing literally the same behavior in adults.
Like, my toddler has a lot of the same level of emotional skills as adults but just expresses them in a more extreme way.
Like, an 8 year old that wines and has a tantrum like a toddler is going to quickly learn that no other kids want to be around them. Did we lose this socializing part of growing up at some point? Do those kids just have other forms of socializing online so they never learn how to act in a real life group?
I'm sure this is true for any generation to a degree. But, I can't help but think Ipad childhoods have created a generation of adults that never had to learn simple traits like sharing or working in a group. Instead of feeling bored and isolated for their bad behavior in a group. They have constant access to a stimulant while isolated.
A lot of these "adults" find their social connections through other "adults" that also just act shitty to other people. There only way of finding community is finding others that are also garbage hateful people.
I really think we need "reeducation camps" for these adults. Like, I don't know what else to do with people like the ones in the article. These aren't people that can function in a healthy society. The issue is that they are functioning perfectly well from their perspective. And I think that is really a testament to how incredibly sick and broken our society is.
That's why he was in prison before the orange man child pardoned them.
~~I'd also like to point out, the first iPad came out in 2010. This guy would have been 20 years old at the time.~~
Edit: As pointed out, I can't do math half-asleep. He would have been 14, still too old to be an ipad kid.
(1) My comment wasn't specifically about the person in the article.
(2) I'm using "iPad kid" in the colloquial sense. It's not literally about when the iPad was released. There are plenty of Internet based media consumption products that were portable long before 2010.
It's to mean growing up in the age of a media environment that profits specifically on keeping a child's attention and parents that are exhausted from overwork using it as a means of calming them.
This has been true for all kids to some extent since the birth year of 2000. It's not all kids. It's not all parents. It's different levels of intensity and at different ages of development. But, my point is around the general trend of more young adults that are experiencing less organic real world socialization.
It is the increased commodification of childhood. It is not unique to this generation but is growing significantly more intense. But, just as more of our adult lives are built into commodities (dating apps) so too are the lives of children. And one thing that is really easy to get from children is their addiction to watching media.
He's 30, he would have been 14-15 at the time. But yeah, he's definitely old enough that rather than blaming the iPad I'm more prone to blaming the alt right pipeline that specifically targeted teenage boys in his age bracket as they were coming into maturity.
The internet created an alternate reality where people who behaved badly were able to recruit those who were badly behaved allowing them no never have to learn. It also made jumping between communities easy and removed long term face to face interaction from being the only real form of interaction and expression.
This fracturing of society is a mixed bag imo, it did a lot of bad like this, and I'll say that it's a far more likely general complaint than the constant stimulation the other person blames. But on the other hand I can't hate it entirely as for a queer kid in the suburbs it made finding myself and understanding myself and finding community so much motr accessible.
Your right, I was half asleep when I made the comment about the ipad.
It's cool, I totally get the thought process and too often also comment while half asleep