No, it's not because of my age. Young people these days are even more in-your-face, "toxic", nasty etc than the teens I knew growing up. I don't think this really changes based on their politics

Basically young people have less chill today than they did 20 years ago

This extends to every form of media. Kids shows like Amphibia and other Disney channel stuff have faster dialogue and animation sequences than stuff from 20 years ago.

Video games: FPS shooters have become faster. Halo was the standard back in 2003, but the Call of Duty overtook it to become way more popular. CoD is way faster paced and you die in 2 shots instead of Halo's 20 or so.

MOBAs: the entire genre is a symptom of this.

Overwatch: combining MOBAs with FPS is also a symptom of this, the amount of stuff you need to pay attention to is insanely high

Everything 20 years ago, and even 10 years ago, was just way slower and normal.

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    many people think the time that they were age 0-mid 20's was the best era, and the current era is worse. I would say most people from each generation say this eventually.

    i do wonder if it's a phenomenon since the 20th century after we moved away from being mostly farmers. I have a hard time imagining a farmer in the 1700s thinking their childhood was the best of times, when change(and news of change) happened so much more slowly. Also we face less hardship today. we don't have droughts or famines, and we don't have a shitload of our family members dying because we have vaccines.

    Here is the video that made me think about this the most. When was Saturday Night live the best? When you were a teenager: https://youtu.be/AGjxX4gvaqk

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      i do wonder if it’s a phenomenon since the 20th century after we moved away from being mostly farmers.

      I've read old texts and studies, and yes they do say this. I specifically remember 1900s Brits complaining about how "city life" brought on an increase in "nervous energy" or something like that

      It's easy to chalk this up as "every generation being nostalgic".

      But on the other hand, it could also be that we're heading towards the theoretical limit of a cycle that started with industrialization, and that every subsequent generation REALLY ACTUALLY IS more nervous and anxious and faster paced than the last, until it all comes crashing down and civilization starts anew again.