it's really not just that I don't like what I read on the internet. it's not just the shitposters and trolls getting to me. the community I live in is actually worse than it was 5 years ago, 10 years ago in tangible ways and I'm sitting on a pile of privilege. others feel it more
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Trump isn't the root of the problem. he's not even the worst symptom. just the loudest and most obnoxious symptom. the root of the problem is that we, as a culture, never figured out what we're doing here. we built consumerism first and let everything else fall apart.
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and now the problem has progressed to the point where we can't talk about it productively any more. any attempt to diagnose the problem leads to enraged, mouth-frothing, culture-warring where narrative control and hurting the reputation of the outgroup is the only game in town.
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so that's it then, right? can't talk about it. have to just sit back and let it happen? where is this all headed?
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The people that are able to actually discuss it without culture war will largely decide the future
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There are potentially many more. As culture war fails to get tangible results people will get more fed up. That's how I ended up this way
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I sincerely hope you're right. The other thing that might happen when people wise up to the fact that you can't talk about it anymore is that they stop trying to talk about things and just get their knives out.
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That's gonna be a challenge. I don't want to see a repeat of the 60s-70s USA and I'm not sure how to prevent that. Optimistic take is that material life is a bit better now than it was back then (ie no draft) but we could easily descend again
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