I'm rather intrigued on the topic of how the internet shapes generations and how those generations shape the world. People grew worried as the first gens of 4chan /b/tards began taking up influence in the world, then in succeeding waves the furries, goons, sjws, the bronies, the /pol/lacks, the alt right and so on. Such groups have very little in common, however the one generalization that rings as believable is that they're all disaffected, socially retarded, organized along ideological grounds that despise society in favour of community, wearing their exclusive dysfunction as a symbol of the community. Formed from shared experiences in one collective consciousness, the effects can be as zealous as that of hardcore cults.
What of the tumblrs, the reddits, youtubes, facebooks and such? That cater to society?
Whilst browsing ironic we are number one crippling depression suicide meme videos I was checking the comments and people were discussing a rather interesting idea. The idea was posited by one soul that if they were to make a video that was just him rubbing soap in his hairy chest, would people watch it? The thought occurred to others replying that indeed, we lived in such a world where many thousands, possibly millions would be more than willing to watch this video even if only ironically. They further brought up how whole generations are growing up 24/7 with broadband who converse entirely with memes, and cannot have a conversation without trying to "win," unleashing their full spectrum of autism with meme after meme in lieu of personal interaction, made worse still with social anxiety from so little socialization. Can such a phenomena become all of society?
The future meme wars may be more literal than "omg literally can't even", and that is an amusing thought. Still, it would be awful to see yesterday's irony become tomorrow's sincerity in regards to virtual space becoming real, and meatspace the joke world
I can't wait till th enext century comes and people become so utterly socially inept that they communicate solely through image macros and monologue videos because actual direct communication becomes too painful for most people.
Anyway, I have a bit of a tangentially related reason to be a bit nervous today, though not nervous as in anxious, more like nervous as in ~there's a thing that is going to happen that is completely unescessary and annoying to me". I'm supposed to have a chat with one soon to be ex husband of an old friend of mine. After years of living together, they're divorcing.
Both parties have already got involved in other relationships, have no children, and haven't had any meaningful conversations for over a year now.
And yet they haven't been able to divorce, and this is causing problems for them, legally and emotionally, and the reason for this is the most hilariously ridiculous ever: they can't fucking talk to each other.
I used to think there was a legitimate reason for this, maybe there was some serious abuse or violence involved, but that doesn't seem to be the case. My friend said nothing of such nature ever happened in their relationship, something I later confirmed with her husband when I talked to him.
As far as I know, the only actual form of communicaton between the two are vague and passive agressive messages posted on social media, dedicated to expressing just how much better they are now, without each other.
Now, I have no right to question anyone's decision in regards to their relationships, but just why the hell can't they talk to eachother to solve a problem thats affecting both of them? I'm literally playing the mediator here. Sure, I'm a lawyer and they're seeking to divorce, so it should be business as usual, but its kinda apalling just how utterly feeble these people have become. They could have totally dealt with this without even needing a lawyer a long time ago, yet they didn't, and the only reason for this seems that they refuse to communicate with each other except through social media indirect passive agressiveness.
If this was an isolated occurence, I'd only be laughing, but this seems way too common. I have observed this so many times now, people with problems that can be easily solved just by having a simple conversation and comming to terms in regards to what to do, stuff that you don't actualy need legal knowledge for, and yet they always choose to seek a lawyer and solve the issue through litigation. Its not like I didn't already know that, in many instances, family courts are used as an escape valve for people's inabily to unfuck their relationship issues, but have things become so ridiculous that this kind of pettyness is the norm now? People can't sit down and unfuck things for the benefit of both of them anymore simply because they decided they can't stand to interact with the other person? Do people really need a third party to come and solve it in a more onerous and tortuous way?
Hell, I've tried putting both of them in a room so I talk to them at the same time, yet they put every kind of obstacle imaginable to make such a thing impossible, but now its only ammounting to excuses. Both parties are young people in their mid twenties.
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