For people born in 2000-2008.
I feel like there has really been a hidden apocalypse in the modern consumer era, exploitation era, the era that no longer cares about humanity or it’s mental health.
From food to entertainment to supposed freedom to so called advancement of the society, we’ve only seen a steady and constant decline in the psychological and mental state of the society as a whole.
I can’t help but notice how different were the things in 2007 or even 2015. The modernity and it’s bells and whistles has really been hazardous.
Social media all the way.
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) 9•11 months ago
Spotify. I remember trawling through Sony music stores and Limewire trying to find new music, and when I did, that album would be on repeat for a week.
Now it’s so easy to just find whatever, I’ve lost all passion for it.
I agree 💯. There’s just too much to take in today. Year ago, when we used to talk about how we don’t have so many resources in our access and we need more, what we really meant was that yes I need more things but not more stuff, i need more of this thing where I’m enjoying an album for weeks i need more of it. I want to go get a new album myself. I want to be able to access everything… But not that i want to feel FOMO when i see people going from one thing to another. I didn’t want to see this becoming a cool thing to just know too many things, buy too many things, have access to too many things. When did that become a competition and when did i become a boomer if i didn’t participate in that race of destroying my brain and my psychology which affects my life eventually.
Realizing things aren’t getting better, global warming is going to get significantly worse, and that we’re probably far too late to dismantle capitalism. All my hope lies on the baby boomers finally dying out, they’ve ruined so much of our lives and refuse to let their positions of power go.
Hey, we did stop acid rain and the hole in the ozone. So there were some wins.
Curious to where you find actual good news cuz I never heard of this! I need some hope man, even if it’s pretty heavy coping
Capitalism and neo-colonism has really been there for some decades and has significantly damaged the societal structure controlled by selfish and inhuman being and portraying itself as a liberal and democratic tool. The horrors it has brought are now irreversible even if the social psychology and consciousness understands it because those people can never think of letting anyone reverse that.
It reminds me of a Simpsons episode where they are taking riches and celebs to the other planet while poor and unpopular are stranded on the earth getting blasted and in nuclear waste in the atmosphere.
When they have basically snatched every opportunity and power from you of redefining and rethinking of a more flexible and humane society, by giving u hope that they’ll do it themselves and will fix everything. And now there’s no way out when they’ve betrayed us and the humanity for their personal and short pleasure.
Minor one is that it’s just really hard to get some damn rest. We’re so caught up in everything that I think very many of us have never actually done nothing in a very long time outside of sleep
Didn’t think of this. Thank you for this perspective too. 😀
*gestures wildly at everything*
I dunno what the research says on this, but I bet everyone being like 20% plastic by weight from all the microplastics in the environment hasn’t helped 😅
Most people mentioned social media here, but I think it’s the software that adjusts and auto-personalizes the content according to the live user’s interactions. Good software was never meant to have that. Good software is meant to have good UX and UI, but not auto-tailoring to user’s needs.
I follow the principles of ‘if I need to change the design, I do it myself’. The best practice would be the special options where I could customize my software, like ‘Customize Firefox’. Some IDEs also have a field to play around. No A/B testing to individual groups, no personalized feeds, ability to disable or adjust the settings.
The gain and then subsequent slashing of human rights based on fascist beliefs and lack of representation (and possibly over representation by fringe groups that capture the news cycle). Across the world, populism and fascism is gaining in popularity - again. It felt like we’d gotten past this point for a minute.
I believe it’s not that fascism as it objectively is has increased since the last decade, but it sure has been put on a global headline with the media and globalisation. And i think there hasn’t been real increament in the fascistic element but decline… But the politics has basically used it for their agenda manking and then making it mainstream more than it should’ve been.