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Post by Sarge on Dec 18, 2019 8:07:00 GMT
I agree and it's all age groups but it isn't anything new or worse than the past, it's just worse than it was in our past. 24 hour news brings loads of bad news and even though our conscious mind knows these things are not happening outside our door (for most of us), our unconscious mind interprets it as our environment being dangerous and so people begin to believe the world is more dangerous, but what changed is our perception of reality, not the world. In fact violence has been declining for centuries and politics are less intense now than 150 years ago (I believe one of the Republican reps spoke to this fact during the impeachment hearing). I think it has more to do with how people were raised as well as the whole group think mentality where everybody riles each other up on the internet into thinking everybody is pure evil and scum except for the people that agree with them. The big difference as opposed to the past was the mentality of "I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death his right to say it", has now morphed into "I don't agree with what you say and it is my god given right to never have to hear it and I am willing to die trying to have your speech shut down" Within our lifetime, but these things wax and wane. Sure when I was a kid people were more polite about disagreements but I was also a kid and had no concerns except fun. I was insulated and surrounded by people who thought like everyone else I knew until my mid 20s so of course there was little disagreement. I had few responsibilities until my 30s when I settled and started a family. With responsibilities came stress. As the decades roll by my mood doesn't improve, taxes go up, my knees crack, and our culture shifts further from my youth leaving me feeling mortal and alienated. So from my perspective, times are worse than when I was young but I've always been a contrarian even to myself and so I know it's me that changed not the world. Old men complain about young men, it goes back to the earliest days of writing. My dad complained about teenagers, they are lazy, immature, can't count change, coddled in school, blah, blah, blah; those teenagers are now old men complaining about teenagers, just like JP in the video. |
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