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You don’t realize my intention at all. I deliberately was as neutral as possible. Just one simple sentence. Facts. I am on no one’s side, because there’s no side in the more or less chronological ordered line of media being accused to spoil the youth, ruin society etc. The irony lies within. No need for intonation (and as a musician, I know a thing about tone and one more about each, rhythm and tempo). No need to take sides in the actual discussion, because it is the old discussion. Yes, there is irony and yes, I am completely serious. This sort of ambivalence is also what makes the arts what they are. Truth is there’s practically no disambiguity in the real world, the duality we humans see everywhere is just how our minds simplify things, because evolutionarily most descisions are binary: flight or fight, left road or right one, answer or not, eat unknown berry or don’t.

Heck, I sure was as ambiguous as the whole discussion is and always was. Claims of cinema, even theater (even drama in ancient Greece), VHS etc, were a danger to to the general public and specifically to the youth were absolutely real. They even had some point. It’s just the fact that the same blame game has been played again and again with every new medium that emerged that has some intrinsic irony. Obviously communication channels can be used by miscreants to spread ugly stuff. Who might have thought? And still people are acting as if thit was new or unexpected. I didn’t even have to point thar out, just the sheer mentioning of these undoubted historic facts did the job. Make your own conclusions from that, everyone, but don’t be surprised or upset when the next big thing will be used to spoil the youth just again. Because it will happen. It never stopped happening.

Because it’s a typical silly season article. Sure, the problem exists, but it’s neither new nor is this the first time somebody mentions it. It is just one of these topics that will get warmed up when there’s not too much else to write about. Actually, there are enough other problems to write about but these are difficult, need thought and research, eat resources and are political minefields. So it’s cheaper to bring up a safe topic for the tenth time without telling anything new.
The whole “spoiling the youth” thing is as old as media and older - Sokrates might want to have word if he were allowed to.

My deepest respect for your pointing out the funny within the irony until really wach and everyone can laugh about it. Nothing better than a well explained joke, However the explaining of a single joke when just performed exhaustingly and tediously enough by pedantic characters might become itself a new joke, a form of “metahumour”.

Congrats. You have won the Irony Detector 2025 Award which a lot better than the "100% Humour-Free Certificate

It used to be pulp literature, cinema, comics, television, Rock’n’Roll and VHS that spoiled our young. Now it’s video games.

Certainly seems draconic, but consider her crimes: dissent, protest. These can’t remain unpunished or others might be encouraged to follow her example. I do not support the death penalty but such infamous terrorist activities as elderly ladies openly protesting in public call for drastic measures.Think of the children!

According to the downvotes I begin to supect that you US crackpots really believe you’re legit successor to the Roman Empire. God-sent to rule the world, exceptional, superior and all that mythobrimborious Nazi crap. That, of course, changes my view on you in a very unfortunate way.

You’re right. The Roman Empire was not a worthy predecessor for the American Empire. I just wasn’t looking at it from the right angle. What a shame that we can’t update history recursively to reflect the true facts.

Hardly. Because -believe it or not- the USA are not the legitimate and god given successor of the Roman Empire. Imitation is not succession, a replica is never equivalent to an original and 1400 years are not a gap to close by illusions de grandeur.

There all terrorists, obviously. Terrorists! Or maybe they can’t take the idea of a traumatized car. But it happens, I’m telling you. It’s the truth! Our cars are being traumatized, our dogs and cats are eaten, it happens every day!

I almost think, I’ve heard of it. 🙃

Horrible. I hope your car wasn’t traumatized. Let’s call these “pedestrians” by their true name: terrorists! Because that’s what they are. Terrorists, creeping around our roads at night, dressed in black, assaulting our vehicles, eating our cats and dogs.

We should have a mandatory car with a red flag driving 3m in front of every pedestrian.

No way. There’s good humanity that was born when we were born or before and there’s the bad generation: you.

AfD or not, serving in a foreign army is a felony in German criminal law. You might even lose your Geman nationality (if you have a second one). Anyone to consider this guy a “hero” should be aware that it’s primarily German neo-nazis who decided to join the war deliberately. His AfD membership obviously points in the same direction.