As an early GenX whose been online since the BBS days this happens all the time but honestly the historical revisionism isn’t main problems, it’s the loss of context around the history.
This is exactly what I’ve been experiencing. Everything from entertainment to historic events. I’m not going sit here and pretend like I had all the answers as a kid but it sure does feel like i was provided a much better baseline understanding of the world and its past, than some of the kids today. There also seems to be a difficulty with some to sit down and research stuff especially If it’s not a super edited short video or headline.
I think of it this way. Me, my father and my grandfather all read the newspaper the same way. We all went to the store with cash in our pockets. We all talked to bank clerks. Another thing is that there were a lot more historic dramas when we were coming up. Old style candle stick phones and telegraph operators were a common trope.
I second this! I used to make day-long deliveries across the Kansas plains and listening to Dan Carlin wax eloquent about the rise and fall of the Persian Empire or the Rape of Nanking kept me engaged and entranced the entire time.
As an early GenX whose been online since the BBS days this happens all the time but honestly the historical revisionism isn’t main problems, it’s the loss of context around the history.
Reminds me of a Jon Stewart cutaway: “Context. It’s why old people are sad.”
This is exactly what I’ve been experiencing. Everything from entertainment to historic events. I’m not going sit here and pretend like I had all the answers as a kid but it sure does feel like i was provided a much better baseline understanding of the world and its past, than some of the kids today. There also seems to be a difficulty with some to sit down and research stuff especially If it’s not a super edited short video or headline.
People today think social media is a news source
Tbh if feels like 80% of modern news sources are just pulling trending headlines from social media and summarizing the top tweets about it anyway…
Pictures with text on them contain the most reliable facts
I’ll also add opinion pieces aren’t news articles
Poor attention skills leading to attention grabbing behavior because of years of instant gratificaion.
I think of it this way. Me, my father and my grandfather all read the newspaper the same way. We all went to the store with cash in our pockets. We all talked to bank clerks. Another thing is that there were a lot more historic dramas when we were coming up. Old style candle stick phones and telegraph operators were a common trope.
You want some context around history…go listen to Dan Carlins Hardcore History.
I second this! I used to make day-long deliveries across the Kansas plains and listening to Dan Carlin wax eloquent about the rise and fall of the Persian Empire or the Rape of Nanking kept me engaged and entranced the entire time.