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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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  • Jamesmac said:
    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

    I think that is is just that the wokeness that has become more common has given those with the "bad" ideologies are now allowed to have much more of a voice than they used to have in the interests of "equality".

    For example people who worship the devil are now positioning themselves as just having a different religious preference to those who worship whichever form of God the mainstream choose. Technically it is a perfectly valid choice as the likes of christianity has taken Lucifer and painted him as being bad when he is still an angel. When you lay out the logic it is a smear campaing so they have every right to be recognised.

    The same goes with fascism - it is being promoted as capitalism and dressed up to appeal to the issues that their supporters want to have "dealt with" - all perfectly valid under freedom of choice.

    In the end is there really "good" and "bad" or just perspectives that differ? Society and laws evolve so something that was bad 50 years ago is not quite acceptable (think homosexuality for example) so who is to say that what we believed growing up is still valid today?

    Life is so many shades of grey that I no longer believe in good and bad in such monochrome terms - there are just laws that constrain peoples expression of things and their actions. These will almost certainly adapt with time in most cases and others will change to only apply to certain groups (it seems only the rich get away with stealing, lying and fiddling with kids now).

    Social media seems to be accellerating it but I noticed a lot changing even back in the 1990s so to me it just looks like the evolution of society to meet the laws of entropy.

  • in reply to Iain

    Why is being "woke" a negative thing. To be aware of all the crap that's going on and being concerned about the impact it has on others isn't a bad thing!

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