1990, in a monoculture conservative prairies small town with a Baptist church co-founding mother. I didn’t fall for any of their shit so I felt out of place and wearing a mask to avoid being disowned at an early age. 8 or so years old is when I started to realise everyone was lying to themselves and me.
yeah its just like politically and socially and economically things got bad in the aughts and then like technology got bad in the teens which was like the only nice thing kinda left to distract. So fi your experience is mostly in this millenium you have not seen it even kinda decent.
Sure I see it the same way as you but that’s just local to us in our own time. Looking at global history outside of the sanitized lie by omission lessons taught by the school system reveals we’ve always been pretty monstrous throughout all of written history. The only thing that I can’t figure out is how things are ever allowed the breathing room to temporarily improve in the first place.
I think we have times were we are on a generally improvement in our trajectory which to me are the good times. They still have a lot of improving to do but improving is the goal. This often comes down to the philosophies that the populace and leadership have. I think we can get back on an improvement track but yeah it does not take much to do aweful things and tear down whats built. I mean nature is pretty brutal and ironcially cooperation is basically our species super power. Unfotunately you don’t need 100% of folks cooperating and above a certain threshold those that don’t end up having an advantage.
I’ve felt everything was off since I could form memories. Just another day in the pointless cruel universe.
were you born after the millenium?
1990, in a monoculture conservative prairies small town with a Baptist church co-founding mother. I didn’t fall for any of their shit so I felt out of place and wearing a mask to avoid being disowned at an early age. 8 or so years old is when I started to realise everyone was lying to themselves and me.
yeah its just like politically and socially and economically things got bad in the aughts and then like technology got bad in the teens which was like the only nice thing kinda left to distract. So fi your experience is mostly in this millenium you have not seen it even kinda decent.
Sure I see it the same way as you but that’s just local to us in our own time. Looking at global history outside of the sanitized lie by omission lessons taught by the school system reveals we’ve always been pretty monstrous throughout all of written history. The only thing that I can’t figure out is how things are ever allowed the breathing room to temporarily improve in the first place.
I think we have times were we are on a generally improvement in our trajectory which to me are the good times. They still have a lot of improving to do but improving is the goal. This often comes down to the philosophies that the populace and leadership have. I think we can get back on an improvement track but yeah it does not take much to do aweful things and tear down whats built. I mean nature is pretty brutal and ironcially cooperation is basically our species super power. Unfotunately you don’t need 100% of folks cooperating and above a certain threshold those that don’t end up having an advantage.