‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood

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‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood
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Uncool boomers be like: "It's the damn phones", when they've created cities where 2+ tons of metal can freely roam around wherever they like. They've created cities where kids cannot go anywhere on their own without being run over by these said metal beasts.

But ofc uncle Kevin, "It's dem damn phones. Can you at least look at me instead of scrolling through Facebook when I'm talking to you?"

This is the wrong take but it's a part of it for sure.

Is it the boomers this time? I remember millennials thinking that about zoomers and now they've grown up, zoomers have been saying it about Gen Alpha calling them iPad babys

People say many things. It doesn't change the fact that the ruling class is largely boomers. Hence, addressing the most influential voting class doesn't seem so absurd to me.

25% of population gets 100% of representation

Not all doomers did it. But those who didn't were communists.

You do realize that everything around you is mostly built by previous generations when you are not a "boomer", cause your generation doesn't do much yet other than differentiate between "cool" and "uncool"? And that's true for every generation.

Criticizing the ruling class is extremely important to a functioning society. Baby Boomers are largely the ones in power around the world. The largest voting bases of all conservative movements are baby boomers. I wouldn't mind if the generations that follow criticize us for stuff. That's just how stuff works.

Not really, criticizing was commonplace and accepted in medieval societies, changes were made by disobedience and rebellions. (I have that fixation on Dutch 80-years war the last few days, hope to get rid of it.)

EDIT: Point is - it doesn't matter what you say when that doesn't serve to exchange ideas without interruption and control, and all the talk in the Web in that spirit is controllable and interruptible. Also this can't be true, there simply were no baby boom in many parts of the world in those years.

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