Everything above applies to them, in exactly the same way, like some kind of fucked up social version of Newton's Law. "For every Crazy there is an equal but opposite Crazy across the isle."
What do the Brits have to do with this?
Damn it Karne, we just
had page 1776, you can't bring the brits
back. There was a whole declaration and everything. Something about "No shitposting without representation" or something.
I am of the belief that there is a problem here. Will society blindly crumple as it swipes right? Probably not.
But I forsee a lot of losers. Some winners, yes, but a lot of losers. Chances are they will lose for no real reason of their own power. Wrong place, wrong time.
We have a lot of losers now, though. The future losers will do what bitter losers have always done: retreat from humanity and invent elaborate reasons why the rest of us don't deserve to be graced with their presence. Sure, the Internet means we can hear more from them, but other than that I see no reason to foresee any change.
A: Saying things in the future will be more like they are now is probably
the most alarming statement you could possibly make in Ameripol. B: The sheer degree to which social networks have dissolved in the years since the 60s and 70s is unprecedented, not only with regards to our recent history, but with regards to American history period. The average American today has fewer local resources in the form of clubs and community since any time since de Tocqueville called us a nation of "joiners" way back when. On almost every metric of involvement that you care to look at, the trend is down. People are still doing things, but as the example which gives the book
Bowling Alone its name: there are more people who bowl than ever, but far fewer bowling leagues. Political participation is down... but the metrics which are down least are things like writing to newspapers, which don't require other people.
If you doubt it, answer me this: how many organizations are you apart of, where your participation is something you actually
do? That is to say, where you actually participate in the sense of volunteer and show up to meetings, rather than sending a check? This isn't to pick on you or even this forum; it's down across every demographic. Political organizations have almost all become professional, but this is at least in part a necessary change to compensate for the loss of volunteers' time. Fewer Americans then ever say that they have
anyone close to them that they can talk to about important things.
My point is simply that it's a broad phenomenon, and regardless of whether or not it's "normal" or "expected", it will have consequences. Actually, that's a good reminder to the thread in general; just because something is normal doesn't mean it isn't real or a problem. Economic boom and bust cycles can be quite regular, but they're still awful for most involved.
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