I was born in 1947. There were no TV shows available for pre-school kids when I was that little. They started after I’d already entered school. My mother read to me regularly, and helped me learn how to read, so that by the time I went to Kindergarten, I was reading on my own. And because of her, I am still an avid reader at the age of 78. I was the baby, and the only one of four kids that went to college later in life. My father came to the US from Holland in 1913 at the age of 8. My mother came from Canada as a little girl in the early 1920’s. My father never finished grade school, but he could read and write well. My mother quit school at 16 to marry my father, and it wasn’t because she was pregnant. Their first child wasn’t born until 4 years later.
But already, even before you were born technology was effecting our minds. And one time, people built things like Chaco Canyon, or Stonehenge. Even by Victorian times, our minds were too polluted to do that.