• theBATCLAM@piefed.social
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    19 hours ago

    It genuinely feels that way yeah like idk what we do about this problem it’s bad, however bad you think it is it’s worse

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      16 hours ago

      I’ve seen some videos of Costco brawls between gen z men over Pokemon cards they want to flip. Surely the bar can’t get lower then that

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        14 hours ago

        I think, unfortunately, we are being lead by grifters creating a society of grifters i.e. the future generation is learning the lesson that the way to get ahead is by grifting.

        I know this is gonna sound dramatic but if it keeps going? We’re looking at apocalyptic outcomes for the future of civilization.

        • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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          13 hours ago

          the future generation is learning the lesson that the way to get ahead is by grifting.

          So basically how it always was?

          There’s a reason why there are billionaires…

          But yeah it’s likely getting worse, like an elite and otherwise brain-dead propaganda following society (to exaggerate a little bit…). Initially after reading Adorno years ago, I never thought that the rather negative way he wrote, and something like the third Reich will not happen again, yet here we are repeating mistakes, fueled by accelerating climate-change (and the resulting conflicts)…

          We are leaving (or rather have left) the most peaceful era of humanity, back to smashing each others heads without a real reason, leaving a more positive holistic utopian future… Sad.