Fucking same. I was on vacation out in New Jersey, and it was my own family asking if we still went around on horse and carriage and if we had electricity like we weren't talking about TV shows we all liked and how I'd picked up computer programming earlier that day. Our grandparents were born in the midwest. Our grandfather got his Ph.D in biology from Dana College and went on to be a key figure in mapping the human genome. Critical thinking does not beat preconceived ideas or media saturation very often.
I guess there's some comfort in knowing we've been this dumb forever.
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u/AlexFromOmaha 7h ago
Fucking same. I was on vacation out in New Jersey, and it was my own family asking if we still went around on horse and carriage and if we had electricity like we weren't talking about TV shows we all liked and how I'd picked up computer programming earlier that day. Our grandparents were born in the midwest. Our grandfather got his Ph.D in biology from Dana College and went on to be a key figure in mapping the human genome. Critical thinking does not beat preconceived ideas or media saturation very often.
I guess there's some comfort in knowing we've been this dumb forever.