@Griffith Everyone was “right”, the grandparent generation was right when they said it. they neglected to mention that their brains were already fried by tv from a very young age but they made a half hearted attempt to have their kids do as they say not as they do. Rather than be hypocritical like their parents, and frankly because to a lot of them it feels like trying to be a fish raising your kids without water, this generation of parents has accepted that their brains are fried, they don’t know how or aren’t physically able (if both parents are forced to work for economic reasons then the kids are going to end up in front of a screen for at least part of the day) to raise kids who aren’t like themselves. And they also are making a (probably correct) calculation that unless they run off to join a Luddite commune their kids won’t have any friends and be stunted socially if they aren’t allowed to go on the internet and consume the screens. To do so would be to remove them from almost the entirety of what they have that passes for culture. To use another water metaphor: theres a factory up the river that’s runoff is carcinogenic, it’ll eventually make everyone sick and die after many years of drinking it, everyone knows this nobody is being fooled, but everyone still drinks the water because it’s the only source of water and nobody can afford to leave.