The episodic nature of kids' cartoon shows has had inevitable effects on we look at life. They breed both false senses of permanence and of futility due merely to how episodic TV shows must be constructed. Plots never advance. Characters never really mature.
It's no leap to say there is a relation between that and the fact that now generations that watched these shows have notoriously matured little and create lives around non-progress, non-accomplishment and view their lives as repeating constantly their same unsolved psychological issues and personal hold-ups, over and over again.
This applies to the consumption of other media as well, like YouTube and even video games. Everything is small variations on a familiar and unadvancing theme on to eternity. Nihil novi sub sole.
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Luke Smith’s videos are generally a good catalyst for examining one’s own thoughts on a given subject matter, disagree as I might.
It would be interesting to get numbers on how much of any given series children watch(ed) and their ages, as I but rarely caught episodes of any of the cartoons mentioned. I am far more familiar with books that do the same, like The Magic Tree House (children’s series) and the numerous Sherlock Holmes stories. I wouldn’t be so quick to ascribe to the episodic format of any given media the blame for instilling a false sense of permanence andor futility in anyone. I would be much quicker to look at how recent and rapid technological advancements have altered our perceptions of our lives.
Continuous cartoon consumption, as it is now more an on-demand experience than ever, may be symptomatic of something more fundamental, say, how quickly the rewards of hard work oughta be reapt.