Showing videos of real events that actually happened is a view of reality? Your view of reality - I hope would be about whether those things that happened are justified or not. Not whether or not they happened.
His view of reality meaning “the videos he’d like my child to see.” First, they represent his viewpoint, not necessarily one that is healthy for my child. Second, my limited understanding is that many videos in the internet are misleading at best.
Look im not advocating for showing children videos of the atrocities of war before theyre ready to see that kind of horror but those videos dont represent any one view point. A video of an atrocity is a video of an atrocity no matter your "view of reality" and discriminating between propaganda using footage of atrocities and the footage itself is an important skill that it seems like a lot of people in our society dont have.
Well I suppose we can both agree that a picture of a civilian suffering horribly in one place and a picture of the exact same thing happening in another place might come semantically coupled with some viewpoint? Turning over my kids media curation to TikTok seems objectionable to me. Your mileage may vary of course. I’m glad my parents didn’t need to think about stuff like this.
I honestly really dont think reality is coupled in any way with any one given viewpoint. Reality is reality. People suffering are people suffering no matter where. If the view of reality you want your child to have, somehow doesnt agree with the actual physical truth of war and suffering then then I have to say thats pretty messed up.
TikTok is definitely not a great teacher for anything. IT should be a parents/family/communities job to walk children through the very real atrocities committed by our fellow human beings around the world
I am so glad my parents thought about stuff like this and gave me the tools to think critically and empathetically about the suffering of "others".
If you havent seen it, you should watch Grave of the Fireflies. IMO you should show it to your children. Everyone should see it. War is horrible.
You're right, of course; reality is coupled with _all the viewpoints_, not just one. I think you're interpreting my philosophy as "kids shouldn't see videos I don't like." My philosophy is "kids should not see only videos that some company wants them to see."
Reductio ad absurdum, if you watched video of one side of an argument a thousand times and never got to hear the other side of the argument, I think you'd have a pretty messed up understanding of the argument and it would be the fault of 1) the jerk who made the algorithm, 2) the people who gamed it, or 3) you, for being an inattentive parent.
I'm not saying you should keep kids from facts you don't like. Although even I get lazy with language, I deeply believe that they're not our kids; we're their parents. But showing a kid a video of an atrocity a thousand times _without_ the context that there was an atrocity before that, and an atrocity before that, and that's not a great way to conduct a civilization is a terrible idea. I get it that you disagree with me and that's cool.
I just believe that there is something to curation (e.g., college > TikTok), and that the combination of dOiNg YoUr OwN rEsEaRcH and busted algorithms leave a lot of people lacking.
