Published on 12, July, 2020
Is it just me or are we all going collectively insane or something? Is this the spiritual awakening of humanity or something like that? I feel like it’s all a bit mad. I mean they’re talking about the temperature getting to 50*C here in the UK. Then I was walking down the street and I seen a guy drinking a beer behind the wheel of his car. I have never seen anything like this before in my life. I was on the bus and a guy just straight up sparked up a joint on the bus and smoked the whole thing and nobody said anything. I honestly didn’t really care either I don’t think anybody else did either I have my own crazy stuff going on to be bothered caring about it. Then it’s like everyday some new unbelievable thing is happening on the news. Nothing would surprise me anymore. I know absolutely nothing anymore. Does anyone else feel like we’re all in a mad world that just keeps getting madder by the second? Then it’s like the music these days is completely mad in a good way I dunno what it is but I listen to uptempo hardstyle techno music and it just blows me out of the water to be honest. I see the strangest things in this world I really do. I don’t have any concept of what normal is anymore. Is this real? It sure feels like a dream I am in.
Yellow tree 118 said:Is it just me or are we all going collectively insane or something?
You are probably just getting old.
I recall going through a phase like this in my 30s when it seemed all the social norms I grew up with were becoming so uncommon that the world was falling apart.
A few decades on I now see it through different eyes - it seems like entropy is leading to a bigger cultural mix with less unique diversity, just a bigger and bigger mix of everything and the norms of society are moving ever faster with the hyperconnectivity influencing us more and more.
Look at the rule of law - it is more and more restrictive yet more and more laws are broken all the time and the punishments are few and far between except where politically expedient or socially demanded.
People change their habits, behaviours, fashions and tastes so fast due to the influences in social media that they are almost in a state of constant flux.
I do suspect it is all leading to a reset of some nature, most likely through a nearextinction level event like a nuclear war, solar flare event to wipe out electronics on the planet, pandemic or similar. It is just a feeling and of course in the absence of these then the move towards chaos is only going to accellerate.
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