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achierius 2 days ago

Social dislocation, a loneliness epidemic, the breakdown of civil society and of trust in the media, gambling unleashed in everyone's pockets, billions of dollars spent trying to get you addicted to scrolling on your phone... Yes, it's worth bemoaning that.

paulcole 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah my mistake you’re right. I’ll go be sad for awhile as penance!

kakacik a day ago | parent [-]

People have good points, and you refute it in childish manner, its hard to have sympathies. I for one can fully agree with them since I am one of those who experienced whole transition, and overall its heading into sad 1984-esque direction without any real way to change course.

Sure, toys and cheap fun are more accessible than ever, but we are losing something much deeper that makes humans... more human for the lack of better words. Election results in many places are just a result of that. Maybe you don't care about that or are oblivious about it, to your own loss, but its everywhere and everybody who cares sees/feels it. There is gigatons of cool technological progress for sure, but it doesn't counterbalance what was expressed.

I am lucky that I moved to society which offers much more real freedom and democracy than current US can to 99.9% of its citizens (none other than Switzerland), even if for other reasons initially (mountains and obviously money), its what eventually made me stay and much more (polite respectful society which is low crime, high quality public healthcare and education, decent social system and so on). Most of the world has much less and it doesnt seem to be improving.