In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.
We can’t let the poors have legal counsel! newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/nyc-once-b...
No one show this to Keir Starmer (1982)
if elected this november, I promise that the number of people who think like birds, in little broken thoughts, will be greatly enlarged
Growing up in the 70s, it was a common admonishment to not read in bed because it would ruin your eyesight. I always found that super duper weird, right up there with masturbating making you blind. Old creeps making shit up to excuse being controlling assholes seems to be a time honoured tradition.
Sometimes, historical facts really blow my mind.
Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
We’re not going to be able to think straight about technological change if we give in to every cliche and trope technology change tends to evoke.
How any of us who've read books, comics, watched films, TV, videos, played video games, went online made it to adulthood at all is remarkable. Media moral panics are always the same.