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The scary thing for me is what is the outcome of a generation that has watched nothing but pure mental junk food like the Netflix top 10 list is?


What about the outcome of a generation that watched nothing but reality TV, Fear Factor, and prank shows? Not disagreeing with you entirely, but I don't think it's scary, because it's nothing new to have swaths of people exclusively consuming low-quality junk.


Yeah it went really poorly, have you watched the news lately?

I get it that people said it about movies and tv before, but these Netflix movies aren't even movies, they are subhuman Hallmark Channel level crap.


TV that's purely entertaining has been around forever. I laugh at the Three Stooges, but I wouldn't call it "high quality."


The Three Stooges know they are stupid and are in on the joke and so is the viewer. Most of the top 10 don’t acknowledge it and the viewer is the joke. There’s a big difference.


You could literally replace "Netflix top 10" with any popular media that was a boogey man in previous generations including rap music, video games, MTV, rock and roll, horror movies, etc.


Idiocracy is the outcome




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