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re: Am I just getting older or does it feel like society is collapsing?
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:01 pm to kciDAtaE
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:01 pm to kciDAtaE
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Social media is just exposing the cancer that has always been present. You wouldn’t blame the doctor for diagnosing a tumor that already existed. So don’t blame social media for problems that already existed.
I’m sorry, but that analogy is pure nonsense.
Social media is not a doctor diagnosing cancer. It is a cigarette company handing out free cartons to children and then shrugging when lung disease spikes. The ugliness in society already existed, sure. Social media just mass produced it, amplified it, and made it profitable.
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Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:02 pm to kciDAtaE
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Social media is just exposing the cancer that has always been present.
You wouldn’t blame the doctor for diagnosing a tumor that already existed. So don’t blame social media for problems that already existed.
Disagree.
The potential for attention and profit is because of the platform.
Social media is changing people who seek attention and money.
Which is everyone
This post was edited on 5/12/26 at 12:03 pm
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:03 pm to mule74
Leftists have for decades doing their dead level best to bring about the collapse of society as it’s currently known so they can usher in their Marxist dictatorship of the proletariat.
When Obama said he was going to “fundamentally change America”, he wasn’t joking.
When Obama said he was going to “fundamentally change America”, he wasn’t joking.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:03 pm to Bunk Moreland
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Social media is a cancer.
I truly believe this and 24 hour news on every device will lead to the end of society as we know it.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:08 pm to BottomlandBrew
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TBF, if you replace some of those terms with brothels, taverns, and prostitutes, you could say that's been most of post-nomadic humanity.
I think we had a sweet spot for a few hundred years where the majority of men could procreate. Our economy allowed for a single man to support a family on a single income. With some of the social norms that were in place (women not having bank accounts or going to college or having a high paying job), it was easy for any man to convince a woman to be with him simply because he was her only ticket to a stable, fulfilling life.
I think something like 40% of men in all of human history have reproduced. That's a lot of dudes needing an outlet.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:11 pm to mule74
boomer here and I don't care how bad you youngins think it was back then in 60s/.70s, we had it much better than it is today.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:13 pm to The Third Leg
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You’re mistaken if you think the United States has been a great civilization for 250 years. Place was a dump for the first half,
A dump compared to what?
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:16 pm to Cliff Booth
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All the issues tie together, but I'm amazed at current costs of pretty much everything. However, everyone still has an iphone, all the toys, cars, etc. There's gotta be a reckoning at some point.
My in-laws recently looked at an assisted living facility. It's a nice one with good reviews. $10000/month for them to live there, not including memory care services for my father-in-law who has dementia. They decided to stay in their home even though they could have afforded it.
There are other cheaper options for much less. But Google says the average range of assisted living facilities are $2500-$14000/month in the South. Per person. So you COULD get in at $2500/month but what kind of facility does that get you?
Point is - the reckoning comes when you need your savings the most.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:20 pm to The Third Leg
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You’re mistaken if you think the United States has been a great civilization for 250 years. Place was a dump for the first half, improved slowly from the Industrial Revolution to WW2 with the depression being a brief return to being a total hellscape, and you’ve been fortunate enough to live through the golden era brought by a massive manufacturing boom made possible by a population explosion in parallel with the destruction of several key societies and militaries while ours remained unscathed.
This is such a sterile, smug, Reddit-brain reading of history. No great civilization starts as a spa resort. They start rough, build through hardship, and prove themselves over time. America went from frontier republic to the most powerful and prosperous nation on earth in about 250 years. That is the definition of greatness by any serious standard.
And the “you only got rich because everyone else got blown up” argument is especially weak AF. Not to mention blows up any attempt of an unbiased serious take. Why were we the ones ready to fill that vacuum? Because we had already built the industry, institutions, culture, and capacity to do it. That was not luck.
This post was edited on 5/12/26 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:23 pm to mule74
It feels like the late 60's.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:26 pm to mule74
People need to go to church.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:27 pm to mule74
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But it almost seems depressing to me.
That is by design.
And I know that phrase gets so overused these days, but in this case, it is 100% true.
It is be design that you feel depressed and sad and afraid and bitter and angry about the future.
Now give this corporation money to fix it. And vote for this politician to fix it.
People need to start viewing social media and the internet at large as simply a commercial. It is literally designed today to take all of your resources from you, your time, your money, your feelings, everything.
IRL relationships are more important than ever. Go outside. Be with your family. Have friends over.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:29 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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None of this would be the case if millennials didn’t need avocado toast
I'm gen X and I like Avocado Toast, but refuse to pay $15 for it...
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:48 pm to mule74
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Am I just getting older or does it feel like society is collapsing?
some of yall need to read a history book.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:49 pm to Salmon
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People need to start viewing social media and the internet at large as simply a commercial. It is literally designed today to take all of your resources from you, your time, your money, your feelings, everything.
IRL relationships are more important than ever. Go outside. Be with your family. Have friends over.
Good advice for a big chunk of the population
Posted on 5/12/26 at 12:54 pm to el Gaucho
Page two was too late an entry for you here
Posted on 5/12/26 at 1:36 pm to SoDakHawk
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You're retired. Easier to disconnect when you don't have to deal with the daily grind and build a future.
Very true. Newly retired. My working days were just over 90-days ago. I remember it like yesterday (kidding).
I have a buddy who would ask me, while working (over the years), how do I find time to workout. I was in an high level role, global in scope, intense….the whole 9 yards.
Answer: because it was super important so I prioritized it and made it happen.
To say, it can be done. Will meets way.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 1:57 pm to mule74
brother i feel like michael douglas in falling down every time i leave my house
Posted on 5/12/26 at 2:14 pm to Salmon
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IRL relationships are more important than ever. Go outside. Be with your family. Have friends over.
This.
I also agree with the go to church post, mainly because of the benefit of community and socialization it provides.
Posted on 5/12/26 at 2:21 pm to Klark Kent
We sat back for >2 years in WW2 while everyone destroyed everything in Europe, jumped in late, dropped a nuke on the japs, and we’re sitting there with a wartime manufacturing machine. The world’s ability to supply their people with manufactured goods was deeply disrupted while ours was not. We were the only industrialized major nation with undamaged infrastructure.
The US took a long time to build out and become what it was following WW2. The fricking railroad buildout didn’t even finish until 1900.
The decade preceding the war was absolute harsh hell in America. 25% unemployment, mass hunger, rampant disease and social dysfunction, wages had fallen 40-50% from highs of the gilded age. Only Germany had comparable difficulty in this time.
WW2 gave us our avenue to rise into dominance. Only a fool would argue otherwise. Nobody is saying we hadn’t built anything until then, but America wasn’t great, but rather rugged and new, and not globally dominant because Europe was already an established civilization
The US took a long time to build out and become what it was following WW2. The fricking railroad buildout didn’t even finish until 1900.
The decade preceding the war was absolute harsh hell in America. 25% unemployment, mass hunger, rampant disease and social dysfunction, wages had fallen 40-50% from highs of the gilded age. Only Germany had comparable difficulty in this time.
WW2 gave us our avenue to rise into dominance. Only a fool would argue otherwise. Nobody is saying we hadn’t built anything until then, but America wasn’t great, but rather rugged and new, and not globally dominant because Europe was already an established civilization
This post was edited on 5/12/26 at 2:28 pm
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