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  • Jonah Aragonjonah@neat.computer
    Sep 18, 2026, 3:13 PM

    @Garwboy @arclight I feel like this could very likely be a case of correlation and not causation.

    It seems just as likely to me that new parents resent their own overprotective parents, and simply (correctly) recognize that it was a massive overreaction in the first place. Nostalgia media like Stranger Things probably plays a role in that.

    I also just think “we have more freedom because we have more surveillance” is not a win we should be celebrating.

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  • Dean Burnett (that brains guy)Garwboy@ohai.social
    Sep 18, 2026, 3:41 PM

    @jonah @arclight oh I must stress I don't think this is an unambiguous positive, just an interesting counterpoint to the prevailing narrative.
    And while I'd like to believe it was a corrective of modern parents rejecting to their own controlling parents, having spoken to many of the parents leading the discourse, I'd have to say that 'being overprotective is bad' is definitely NOT a viewpoint that's common among them.

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