A more vague idea, and something I talked about with Dog$ and ARBM in notChicago is the loss of nonwillful ignorance for kids, the mystery of shopping and trips.
Like, you couldn't look anything up. It was possible to go on a trip with your parents and be taken by surprise. Like you might go to a store with games once every couple months, maybe even once every year. And you'd be surprised. There would be something you didn't know about, especially if you didn't have multiple magazine subscriptions. There would be music, games, comics, movies etc you didn't know about. If you went on vacation there would be tons of surprises. Like does anyone remember how hard nick and Disney pushed their parks on TV in the 90s? You'd see just glimpses for your kid day dreaming pleasure. Then when you got there everything would be amazing and surprising.
Its not that way now if your kid knows how to work a smart phone. They can google a game list for every console. They can watch someone beat every game. They can see the covers of comics before they are out and read reviews of that issue. The same with movies and amusement parks. They can google the ride list and read reviews and look at pictures of the rides.
A child (or adult) can see and spoil just about anything they want to do via the internet.
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