Perpetual horrors. It might be a sign of the times, or just the internet, or both even, but there is a notable increase in constant terrible news. Climate change and death and hunger and epidemic and wars and billionaires and fascism and so forth, it desensitizes people.
Years ago people were deeply disturbed by violence, now I can watch a random russian conscript shoot himself in the mouth after a drone strike destroyed his legs every other day and it’s probably not the worst thing I’ve read or seen on that day even.
Everything seems fucked, it’s hard not to become somewhat apathetic towards it.
It’s probably a mix, but I’d wager it’s primarily a side effect of the existence of the internet. Before you’d hear the bad things in your immediate community, the really bad things from your country/region/whatever, and really only the truly horrible stuff from the world as a whole. Now you can have a constant feed of every bad thing that happens everywhere. As you see more of it, you’re bound to get desensitized.
But hey on the otherhand I have unlimited videos of cute puppies and I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t a pretty big upside.
how many wars are going on again?
Yes.
Three hours you mean, right?
I just wanna know what happened to the fucking aliens man
You should instead want to know what was happening during the period when they had everyone focusing on aliens, same as the last few times.
We’re here, we’re “chilling”, but our methods of communication, systems of ethics, policies on warfare and the ideals of what constitutes a good life are so completely and wholly incompatible that we’ve given up trying to communicate with humans.
E.g: Talk to us for a few hours and you’ll be unable to contain your despair, or anger. Humans are an extremely violent, opinionated, and anthropocentric species, despite their many redeeming qualities.
Only the staunchest of optimistics are still out here observing homo sapiens and interacting with them.
the whole Taylor swift worshipping (from people and media) really irks me because I thought it was not so long ago that everybody was talking about her private jet use and carbon dumping, but apparently it was a long time ago and nobody cares anymore
Sure, totally just forgot about the “next plague” everyone was talking about
Yeah wonder what happened to monkeypox.
Not to mention only ever focuing on one story at a time.
More like 10 seconds later
Agreed, but it’s not really like you’re any different, is it?
Welcome to the wonderful world of propaganda
