- Dołączono
- 12 Gru 2022
This started as a discussion a while back that I have saved for a future time, which is now as the year draws to a close. And what better time to discuss the last five years than in October, the spookiest month of all.
A lot happened in 5 years. Wars, plagues, economic crashes, the rise of AI, and the Costco hotdog staying the same price amongst all of it
The internet firmly took its place in life. There still were holdouts, believe it or not. You still did things pre covid. Covid stuck everyone indoors and, on their phones, and the PC. The Internet became much more massive than ever before. Did a lot of damage to kids. You could possibly attribute the rise of these grooming cults we now see today to the isolation from 2020.
Covid broke everything normal and we still haven't recovered. Even the trivial things. Take theaters.
I used to go out to the movies all the time. Cheap entertainment as a kid. Big screen, it's loud, and prices weren't bad. Now? Everything goes to streaming way too fast. I have to make an effort now to catch movies in theaters now. It is a part of culture that has been lost, one of many.
Now, why do people not talk about the last 5 years? Is it mass psychosis? Did people just forget the hell we all went through? I think a lot of people remember what happened and just don't want to talk about it. It was a very traumatic event. You had celebrities and all these idols saying you should lose your job and be thrown in jail and lose your freedom if you didn't wear a mask.
There was also the WEF shit popping up at the time. I still remember when Jontron shit on it, and it was like, holy shit, this is real. There are crazy people in the world that want you to literally live in the pod and eat the bugs like it’s Cyberpunk 2077.
You've also had 2 major wars in the last 5 years.
All that pent up online rage from COVID has been used yelling about Ukraine and Israel- on both sides. Look at the talking points. It's just Covid continued, with the same terminally online people yelling at each other. It has been the most dehumanizing thing to witness as someone who considers themselves somewhat neutral on the issues. You have entire groups of online factions going from the COVID cult, to the war cults. It is maddening.
This also combos with the words misinformation and disinformation entering the zeitgeist. You can't just call someone a liar, you accuse them of wrongthink anytime something happens against the narrative. It is so much more insidious. You are discrediting that person, tarnishing anything they say going forward. It has literally ruined entire careers over nothing. Only now are we pushing past it. But even then the genie is out of the bottle, and those words are never going back in.
In conclusion. The last five years have been fucking insane. Covid mindraped society. We have not recovered even to this day. Fuck the chinks.
A lot happened in 5 years. Wars, plagues, economic crashes, the rise of AI, and the Costco hotdog staying the same price amongst all of it
The internet firmly took its place in life. There still were holdouts, believe it or not. You still did things pre covid. Covid stuck everyone indoors and, on their phones, and the PC. The Internet became much more massive than ever before. Did a lot of damage to kids. You could possibly attribute the rise of these grooming cults we now see today to the isolation from 2020.
Covid broke everything normal and we still haven't recovered. Even the trivial things. Take theaters.
I used to go out to the movies all the time. Cheap entertainment as a kid. Big screen, it's loud, and prices weren't bad. Now? Everything goes to streaming way too fast. I have to make an effort now to catch movies in theaters now. It is a part of culture that has been lost, one of many.
Now, why do people not talk about the last 5 years? Is it mass psychosis? Did people just forget the hell we all went through? I think a lot of people remember what happened and just don't want to talk about it. It was a very traumatic event. You had celebrities and all these idols saying you should lose your job and be thrown in jail and lose your freedom if you didn't wear a mask.
There was also the WEF shit popping up at the time. I still remember when Jontron shit on it, and it was like, holy shit, this is real. There are crazy people in the world that want you to literally live in the pod and eat the bugs like it’s Cyberpunk 2077.
You've also had 2 major wars in the last 5 years.
All that pent up online rage from COVID has been used yelling about Ukraine and Israel- on both sides. Look at the talking points. It's just Covid continued, with the same terminally online people yelling at each other. It has been the most dehumanizing thing to witness as someone who considers themselves somewhat neutral on the issues. You have entire groups of online factions going from the COVID cult, to the war cults. It is maddening.
This also combos with the words misinformation and disinformation entering the zeitgeist. You can't just call someone a liar, you accuse them of wrongthink anytime something happens against the narrative. It is so much more insidious. You are discrediting that person, tarnishing anything they say going forward. It has literally ruined entire careers over nothing. Only now are we pushing past it. But even then the genie is out of the bottle, and those words are never going back in.
In conclusion. The last five years have been fucking insane. Covid mindraped society. We have not recovered even to this day. Fuck the chinks.
Our schools haven't recovered either. We didn't have much of anti or pro woke drama, but the school district did some very unpopular policies that involved stripping the gifted programs, opening honors and advanced placement programs to all, inclusion and stopped punishing disruptive students. Now many parents pull their kids out and desperately try to send their kids to a private school, which the two closest ones have insane waiting lists now. No parent wants their kid physically attacked by another student who can't be punished. It became such an issue that some kindergarteners were scared of attending school because of these violent students.
