Subj : Re: 3.5 weeks to being la
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Jul 23 2022 01:03:34

 pF>  bo> We used to a be a people who would be willing to change, challenge,
 pF>  bo> secure a future.  Now were just all "meh" and don't really care about
 pF>  bo> anything anymore.
 pF> 
 pF> We're too busy looking for approval on social networks and consuming
 pF> content  - there's no time for THOUGHT.

I think it is something deeper than that, something from well before Social Media.  Probably decadence and nihilism.  We don't care and don't think anything really matters anyway.  Gen X was very much like this.

 pF>  bo> The problem is that we're stuck with a specific hierarchy of values,
 pF>  bo> and we can't change them anymore.  We're OLD, tired, way too
 pF>  bo> conservative and lack imagination.
 pF> 
 pF> I don't know if that's truly the case, but the old tired conservatives
 pF> have  stacked the system of laws in their favor.
 pF> 

True, but they aren't really being challenged either.  I think a lot of people want to keep things as they are because of familiarity or sentimentality.  Many want the past back, or a better version of the past.


 pF>  bo> You are right, but not because you are RIGHT, but because we're an
 pF>  bo> apathetic lot who really don't care about future generations.
 pF> 
 pF> I don't know if it's apathy, it feels like a lack of empathy. I'm going
 pF> to  get mine, I don't care what it takes or who it hurts.
 pF> 
 pF> 
 pF> 

There is definitely that.  People also don't know why things matter, or don't take responsibility.  One of the things that gets me about the discussion on housing prices, is just how disconnected people are from the flow on effects. There is a huge social shift, which will greatly impact our children and grandchildren, and people kind of just are happy to be victims of change.  Actually, if you think about it, whenever we talk of the future, of AI, surveillance, the new Internet, the Great Reset, we kind of act, to paraphrase someone, as if the future is something that happens to us, rather than something we create.

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