[HN Gopher] Useful Engines
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       Useful Engines
        
       Author : vitabenes
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2022-11-08 10:17 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | netfl0 wrote:
       | What a barrel of fun.
        
       | ccbccccbbcccbb wrote:
       | That's right, the most blatant of all brainwashes has always been
       | directed at children. But it's totally under parents' radar,
       | because they were treated well in their due time too. The human
       | spiral of doom.
        
         | drewcoo wrote:
         | Actually, marketing to children is a recent innovation in
         | humanity. It really only picked up post-WWII.
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         | https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-history-of-advertisi...
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         | History can be the antidote to anecdata.
        
           | ccbccccbbcccbb wrote:
           | Indoctrination is way older than the technologies that propel
           | it nowadays.
        
       | onemoresoop wrote:
       | This was a great read.
        
       | drewzero1 wrote:
       | Alternatively, as a somewhat less sinister explanation for work-
       | based toys: kids love to do what (they think) their parents do.
       | Kids see grown-ups doing work all the time and their
       | interpretations of what they see comes out in imaginative play. I
       | have a tractor for yard work and mowing, and my kid has a toy one
       | so he can pretend to do the same.
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       | Do some toys take this in a weird, unnecessary direction?
       | Absolutely! But at the end of the day grown ups work, and kids
       | copy.
        
       | dusted wrote:
       | Nice read. Even if it may not be the entire truth (I'm not making
       | claims either way).
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       | It reminds me of an album that put me much into the same
       | headspace as this article, River of Nile - The Work
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NYuLb5gLmM
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       | Which is a reflection, in my interpretation, of modern life and
       | society and its hyper-focus on the work.
        
       | Edd314159 wrote:
       | thinkpieces have got to stop
        
         | cameron_b wrote:
         | care to elaborate?
        
       | cameron_b wrote:
       | The mention of Bluey in the footnotes is as valuable as any other
       | paragraph.
       | 
       | open-ended story, and play are a MUCH bigger springboard
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       | AND
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       | This is so analogous to the UNIX model of "don't make it so big
       | on it's own, rather make it great and give it a friend" -- that
       | pipe function is the door of imagination
        
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