It was the internet becoming commonplace in the home that did it, actually, on one hand a true miracle of technology that allowed people to greatly expand their view and knowledge of the world, but on the other hand most of what there was to learn and discover was quite negative, people used to grow up feeling like their hometown was the entire world, so if you grew up in a good place the world felt like a good place, then it became the norm in the first world (via the internet) to grow up with the stark understanding that your hometown was a tiny dot on a huge planet and that most of the world is frankly fucking awful, and more people learned more and more about all the bad shit happening in their own country as well, the human brain was never designed to process all this, not for thousands of years, so yeah we had that first generation that was psychologically shellshocked and the next couple generations haven't processed it very well either, you've got 6th graders making nihilistic suicide memes like it's their generation's sense of humor ffs
Agree. The internet was a better place before google took over, Facebook went public and twitter was a thing....
The internet was much different before the iPhone because the assumption that you were at a computer was present....now it was possible to be anywhere....but where the advertising asked.....we don't know said engineering....find out said the executives......don't worry they reassured the government.....
It was the internet becoming commonplace in the home that did it, actually, on one hand a true miracle of technology that allowed people to greatly expand their view and knowledge of the world, but on the other hand most of what there was to learn and discover was quite negative, people used to grow up feeling like their hometown was the entire world, so if you grew up in a good place the world felt like a good place, then it became the norm in the first world (via the internet) to grow up with the stark understanding that your hometown was a tiny dot on a huge planet and that most of the world is frankly fucking awful, and more people learned more and more about all the bad shit happening in their own country as well, the human brain was never designed to process all this, not for thousands of years, so yeah we had that first generation that was psychologically shellshocked and the next couple generations haven't processed it very well either, you've got 6th graders making nihilistic suicide memes like it's their generation's sense of humor ffs
Really hit the nail on the head. It’s like Pandora’s Box. I can’t shake it. We literally know too much for our own good.
Agree. The internet was a better place before google took over, Facebook went public and twitter was a thing....
The internet was much different before the iPhone because the assumption that you were at a computer was present....now it was possible to be anywhere....but where the advertising asked.....we don't know said engineering....find out said the executives......don't worry they reassured the government.....