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172 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Jan \ on: Reality fracture mostly_harmless
It feels overstated, although directionally important.
The shows I watched, comics I read, and games I played as a kid were almost entirely things that didn't exist when my parents were kids.
All the kids at my daughter's preschool seem familiar with the popular kids shows today. They can all fluently play Paw Patrol or Bluey, for example.
Maybe the issue is more like reduced intergenerational exchange rather than lack of passing down. Fewer people have kids, which reduces the share of adults who are familiar with what the next generation is up to.
It's easy to see how adults who don't have kids could just be adrift in their own curated realities.
"adrift in their own curated realities"
very poetic
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Appreciate the context.
Interesting to consider that having kids is, itself, one of the handful of anchors common to many people's experience -- something foundational and primal. The falloff in having children becomes, therefore, an additional cut line tethering us to each other.
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When you're about to have kids, your allegiance involuntarily shifts to other parents.
There's definitely a major loss of shared purpose that accompanies lower fertility.
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