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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by HDThoreaun on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:28PM (#34916736)
US is a low trust society because of a culture that reveres individualism and independence to the detriment of everything else, especially community and freedom from being abused in favor of freedom to abuse. Every man for themselves means kids need to constantly be supervised.
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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by hn_version_0023 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:31PM (#34916780)
That culture is created by a media environment manufactured by companies whose employee base are well represented on this site. This line is pushed on us, ad nauseam. Unsurprisingly, most of us are sick from it.
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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by valleyer on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:51PM (#34917054)
An alternative view is that our individualistic culture is simply an evolution of the American idea of "rugged individualism" -- an idea which somewhat predates the tech industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugged_individualism#Influence...

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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by jdminhbg on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:34PM (#34918387)
> That culture is created by a media environment manufactured by companies whose employee base are well represented on this site.

Are you saying then that "that culture" is a decade old?

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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by bluGill on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:48PM (#34918548)
Yellow journalism dates to the 1800's. I'm sure much longer, but that is something everyone should remember from history class.
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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by jdminhbg on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:49PM (#34918563)
That's right, which makes it unlikely that the FAANG companies are responsible for it.
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Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In... by MockObject on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:47PM (#34917005)
We were a more philosophically individualistic society in previous generations, during which children played freely in cities and suburbs.
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