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cost of living
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politicians and greed
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The 1.1 % sitting on 47 % of the worlds ressources
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loneliness
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Humans being separated from nature
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income inequality
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propaganda
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There’s a lot going on here, but the top comment is “social media.” Granted social media sucks, but really? The worst thing about our current society is a handful of websites? Bigotry, inequality, environmental destruction, these are all secondary to people being mean to you on the internet?
me getting downvoted is a lot like slash and burn agriculture in the amazon river basin
Not getting gold for my banger post was like my personal Vietnam :so-true:
In my experience, when you rely solely on a single coping strategy to process and handle your emotions, it becomes hard to tell the difference between you personally having a problem and that coping strategy being flawed. So people will come to resent their one coping strategy for becoming less effective over time and extrapolate that across the entire population because it’s easier than recognizing that they lack basic coping skills. Because the reasons for an adult lacking basic coping skills are generally not pretty and can be difficult to accept, especially as the person who lacks coping skills.
TLDR people’s lives suck, they use social media as their main coping strategy, and then when the hedonistic treadmill catches up with them, they blame social media instead of finding a more diverse set of strategies
I think many of them unironically think that if social media were "solved", we could simply fix all of the issues you mentioned.
cant blame them, unfortunately i think the proportion of people who view the current mental health crisis as a result of or largely contingent on social media are disturbingly high
It always reeks of someone who never had an interest in anything unusual in their entire life. Excuse me for the 4-chanism, but you have to be such a normie to think that the technology that allowed millions of people to connect to those with shared interests is also purely mentally harmful.
To be clear, it is also mentally harmful.
propaganda
to believe "propaganda" is inherently bad on its face you have to believe you have no ideology and that someone can be "objective" in spite of the material conditions of their life up until that point. real "end of history" shit where anyone who has a viewpoint to promote is evil
A lot of people think propaganda means "fake things meant to make people angry"
And yes the ones complaining about it, on its own detached from any specific agenda or interest, believe themselves as completely rational actors detached from all history
"Both sides right and wrong therefore not caring is the smartest thing to do" was incredibly successful propaganda.
I remember a solid decade where any environmental discussion ran a very high chance of being derailed by thought terminating utterances of :soypoint-1: MANBEARPIG :soypoint-2:
So the edgy rich assholes who ran the show "apologized" for that many years later. So does the CIA sometimes. :mlk-yes:
The same people complaining about propaganda are also shouting "Slava Bandera" and agitating for war against China.
Americans especially don't seem to grasp that telling the truth can be an extremely effective form of propaganda.
"U.S. lawmakers and elected officials not serving the people."
wow i cant believe the politicians are racist and greedy in a country built on racism and greed :amerikkka:
If there was only someone who could co promise and somewhat fix just a little bit of that ..... :bernie-pout:
How is the inevitability of global warming caused apocalypse not at the top of the chart? Everything else can at least theoretically be fixed.
Everything else can at least theoretically be fixed.
They would say the same about apocalyptic global warming because :soypoint-1: :melon-musk: :soypoint-2:
