I guess the reason why modern times feel so bland is because we all agree on the lowest common denominator, and then celebrate that as "iNcLuSiViTy". If anything you do has any personality, aka deviates from the standard workflow, it immediately gets a disadvantaged position on the free market.

It's like, we collectively prioritize efficiency over fun and then we wonder why life is not fun even though it is efficient.

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jrajav 7 days ago | parent [-]

Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh?

Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...

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anal_reactor 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

something something "things I don't find funny are objectively bad and wrong and you're a bad person, be a boring serious miserable adult like everyone else" something something

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efilife 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh?

There are many personalities. Not everything has to be mature

	▲	anal_reactor 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I feel like there's confusion regarding the word "mature". It's supposed to mean that someone has lots of experience and draws knowledge from it, but in reality often people use the word "mature" to describe a certain specific societal ideal of a person that we're supposed to grow into. The problem is that societal consesus is often wrong, and that image of a perfectly mature person actually does have a lot of problems with it. Every generation discovers this, and redefines that ideal. 40 years ago in my country a "mature man" was expected to take part in alcohol drinking contests until blackout. Nowadays a "mature man" is expected to drink as little alcohol as possible. Neither attitude is actually about learning and forming a personal, informed opinion, both of them are about following whatever is currently in fashion.
	▲	hulitu 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> There are many personalities. Not everything has to be mature Is a "mature personality" mature ? How do you test for it ? /s

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account42 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh?

Yes, they do.