| Comment | I 100% think it’s down to print media too and I absolutely agree on the point about tabloids. I actually just finished writing a dissertation on newspapers and I noticed that even broadsheets seem to be buying into more “culture war” type stuff. Print journalism is a struggling industry and so I think a lot of newspapers deliberately pander to the beliefs of the people who are buying actual print copies of newspapers, who often tend to skew older.
I could honestly write novels about this, it’s something I’ve thought about a lot over the years. I don’t think old people are inherently nasty or cruel. I think they’ve just been conditioned to think a certain way and struggle to break out of certain mindsets due to feedback loops and echo chambers. The internet just makes things much worse. |
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