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Ep 43 Ch 15 "The Evolution of Culture" Part 3

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The Horror of Memes

Jimmy Kimmel has a segment on his Halloween show where the humour is supposed to come from, adults sending in videos of their children being pranked. I've been two minds about promoting it, I don't really want to promote it, I think it's absolutely a terrible idea. Many people who watch it can barely get throughIt because it's disturbing, it's public child abuse. We still exist in this culture of memes that says it's okay to cause a child to cry. Now telling a child that the candy that they have collected on Halloween has all been eaten by mum and dad as a joke is kind of like ringing up the parents and saying, excuse me Mr and Mrs Smith

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