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I don't like the world right now

Jamesmac

Everyday I'm reminded that the world is not the world I grew up in. More and more people are becoming sociopaths and being misled by other sociopaths to follow hateful ideologies that I'm pretty sure EVERYONE used to agree were bad, important historical events are being trivialised by betting as if they were horse races, game companies are trying to convince gamers they don't own the games they paid for, AI is taking away valuable opportunities from hard working creatives and genuinely creative people are overlooked in favour of "gooner bait".

This was not what I was taught as a child. Growing up, everything I consumed including media and school teachings taught me that being bad is BAD, being good is GOOD, we should be tolerant of each other's differences (because that's what makes us human), people own things once they pay for them and those who follow the path of greed and corruption should be punished.

What happened to the ideals we all tried to push before everyone became social media zombies?

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  • in reply to Desmond1979

    I often wonder who the "silent majority" are?

    Personally I think social media has a lot to answer for, there are to many keyboard warriors out there, spiiting hairballs of malice at people who they'd never hear of otherwise and have probably never met or will meet.

    I'm woke and proud to be so, but I think it's a term thats much abused, is it wrong to challenge things that we know or believe to be wrong, such as racism, homophobia, domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse, to question the "respect" given to people who if they lived today we would abhor? We can't and shouldn't try and rewrite history, but we should question it, we should be critical in our thinking and not accept what we're told. We should ask questions about the motives of those who tell us what is real and what is not, no matter what end of the political spectrum we or they are on.

    Honestly I think all that nastiness has always been there, it might not have had the platforms that it has today, but it didn't come out of nowhere, it is down to all of us to challenge attitudes and opinions we don't like and do it in a way that promotes dialogue before resorting to abuse and violence, although sometimes it's really really hard not to lose your head and go after someone who i deliberately trying to incite violence and abuse. It's one of the things I've noticed about rightwingers, they want to dish it out but they can't take it back at them and do try intimidation, abuse and violence, I've met a couple of them, needless to say I wasn't intimidated.