06-21-2021, 11:01 AM
(06-09-2021, 04:29 AM)Captain Genet Wrote: Imagine a millennial theme park in 2100. You would receive a laptop, go online, comment some kid's photos at MySpace, Facebook or Instagram, vandalize Wikipedia by replacing Donald Trump's face with a penis and finally of course experience an exchange of memes with a chatbot pretending to be an Antifa member. All of this done while listening to EDM from earphones instead of receiving music directly into your brain.
I am satisfied t hat many people will insist upon getting off line -- and especially getting t he kids off line. Amusement parks will be part of that. Seeing a life-size dinosaur is far more impressive than seeing video of one. As an example, some promoters of young-earth creationism (a ghastly pseudoscience, of course) show some impressive dinosaurs along with such stupid ideas that dinosaurs perished in some worldwide Great Flood (some were aquatic, anyway) or that Jesus may have ridden on a dinosaur. (No, there is no evidence that Jesus ever rode upon an ostrich, which is the largest living dinosaur (birds are dinosaurs), let alone T Rex.
Maybe some poor state such as New Mexico will be the sire of some "Evolution Museum".. and evolution is, all things considered, far more interesting and meaningful.
People will want the thrill rides. People still attend live sports. People see live theater. Great music, including operas and long symphonies (including those of Bruckner and Mahler) will captivate people anew. Getting such experiences will be more of a civic ritual than a mark of elite privilege. Disneyland used to be affordable.
By the way -- it is best that children have as little experience with electronic gadgetry as is possible. It;s not that it is mindless -- it is that much is better. I remember people who did not have such stuff as kids. If they had hard childhoods then such resulted from exploitation, abuse, neglect, and poverty. I've seen people in their 60's figure out computers, let alone video devices, digital cameras, and the like easily. Children need to hone their muscles in physical play, to read (OK, reading off a Kindle or similar device is no worse than reading a dead-tree edition, and do performance arts. A computer might be a marvelous rool of research, but that is all it is good for for a child. Children do not need X-boxes, Play Stations, and the like.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.