This is just an observation. YMMV, of course. But I've noticed this with increasing frequency in recent years...
It's not necessarily a "new" thing. Lying certainly isn't new. But I imagine there must have been a time when, hypothetically, you could make plans with someone, or discuss something, and they would damn well hold to it/keep their word...
Like, in my observation, this happens all the damn time: people flake, people change their mind at the last minute, people ghost (and I do it, too), people, worst of all, change plans, or change their mind, and don't even tell you...
I'm not talking just with women, either. My male "friends" do this. My family does this. Constantly. Randoms I meet, and plan to meet up with later, do this too. And sure, I'm a common factor, but I see this happening more generally, to all manner of people I know, too.
I really, really wish that we "as a society" hadn't normalised this... "Flaky", noncommittal, "my needs come first, always" bullshit...
I really, really do.
If there's a culture where keeping your word and actually committing is still the default, I look forward to one day finding it. Because I am yet to really... Ever experience that. And I've travelled fairly widely and met a lot of people.
What you're describing is American degradation from a formerly high trust society into a low trust one.
Not even in America, but yes.
I honestly can’t say whether it is worse or better here, in that regard (what I saw and have experienced of the US was worse, but it wouldn’t be fair to judge a whole society based on that)… But also yes.
This seems to be fairly universal, in Western “developed” countries, tbh…
The West as a whole is suffering from the same infection.
Any country infected with third worlders will show the same symptoms. It's the core principle of nationalism. The nation is the people.
Flood a nation with third world trash, and society starts to decay.
Honestly [Im going to hell for this, but], the, uhh, “third world trash”, or at least many of the ones that cause the problems..?
Yeah, their ancestors (some of. Very few full-blood left!) we’re here even before Whitey… As was the dysfunction.
Which… Makes it even harder to deal with, lol.
But also what you said. Sudanese + Chinese + Lebanese + Vietnamese + Subcontinentals + Aboriginals + Pacific Islanders, all of whom refuse to integrate or assimilate..?
Yeah, it’s a recipe for disaster, lol…