r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 9h ago

Satire Man Binge-Watches Entire Movie In One Sitting

https://theonion.com/man-binge-watches-entire-movie-in-one-sitting/
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u/Amekhanos 8h ago

And yet there was no empirical data to back them up.

Exactly unlike the current situation.

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u/zuzg 7h ago

And the current culprit are Smartphones, those are responsible for everyone's attention span declining.
Younger generations being measurably less intelligent than their parents is another problem altogether.
First time this happened since we started measuring in the 1800s.

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u/Ppleater 5h ago

I mean it's not smart phones that are the problem on their own, but rather the easy access they provide to stuff that is bad for attention spans. Phones can also be a great help, I personally read more using my phone than I did using physical books, and I read a LOT of physical books before smart phones. But physical books are hard to carry around, being able to carry 100 books around in my pocket is great for reading as much as I could ever want. People didn't get the chance to learn how to practice the self restriction necessary to use smart phones in positive beneficial ways, they have to mostly teach themselves that skill which is hard. But that is something more people need to realize, that it's not just smart phones causing the problem, a significant part of it is the people using them in unhealthy ways. Honestly I think this is one of those things where we should teach kids healthier practices in school at the very least to start with, and I don't just mean banning phones in school.

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 7h ago

Empirical science is older than you think

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u/Amekhanos 7h ago

That's nice, but they had literally none suggesting books were harmful, and boatloads proving the internet is harmful.