Are you on the younger side? I was born in the 80s and raised in the 90s by normal parents and I think it might've been one of the best times in human history to be reared and educated. The internet was in its infancy when I started going on it, and none of the divisive strife was happening. Music had top charting songs in every possible genre, TV and movies were about entertaining not indoctrinating, and people were for the most part in the West judged on an individual level not for their group traits. Cancel culture didn't exist. Multiculturalism almost looked like it could work. There were only two genders. Gay people were tolerated but not forced down your throat.
True, I think the internet and social media was the impetus in getting it from academia into the pop culture. Sad as the internet started off with so much promise.
It was the advent of smartphones and social media that ended gatekeeping on the Internet and made it so any bum, sociopath, idiot, and actual or emotional child could make themselves heard and nobody would know they were mentally ill. I'm not exaggerating: if you were to draw a graph of social media, with people as nodes and directed lines showing who influences who, the core social influencers are crazy or stupid people who have just learned how to make "mic drop" statements. Those same people would otherwise be nobodies. The famous people that everyone knows are just vapidly parroting those weirdos.
Are you on the younger side? I was born in the 80s and raised in the 90s by normal parents and I think it might've been one of the best times in human history to be reared and educated. The internet was in its infancy when I started going on it, and none of the divisive strife was happening. Music had top charting songs in every possible genre, TV and movies were about entertaining not indoctrinating, and people were for the most part in the West judged on an individual level not for their group traits. Cancel culture didn't exist. Multiculturalism almost looked like it could work. There were only two genders. Gay people were tolerated but not forced down your throat.
Damn... the 2020s fucking suck.
i wish we actually had gatekept them.
True, I think the internet and social media was the impetus in getting it from academia into the pop culture. Sad as the internet started off with so much promise.
It was the advent of smartphones and social media that ended gatekeeping on the Internet and made it so any bum, sociopath, idiot, and actual or emotional child could make themselves heard and nobody would know they were mentally ill. I'm not exaggerating: if you were to draw a graph of social media, with people as nodes and directed lines showing who influences who, the core social influencers are crazy or stupid people who have just learned how to make "mic drop" statements. Those same people would otherwise be nobodies. The famous people that everyone knows are just vapidly parroting those weirdos.