• 1984@lemmy.today
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    10 hours ago

    Parents are just grateful to not be disturbed i think. They are also exhausted from their lives, working full time.

    The system is designed this way, because then those people become good consumers for the corporations. They fill their emotional void with stuff the system sells. Games, movies.

    And then you have the hypersexualized movies, designed so people will jerk off. There is also a reason behind all that. For Instagram, its profit motives but it goes hand in hand with what the system wants - passive consumers with no energy to change their lives for the better.

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      10 hours ago

      Valid. Multiple income households are often necessary today, and it isn’t just mom & dad both working, it often means second jobs or side hustles in addition to the primary jobs. It leaves kids alone a lot, and when the parents are home, they are too tired to resist.

      It’s Bread & Circuses, and in the 21st century, screens provide the Circuses.