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Ah, I dunno. I can only speak for North America, but I personally feel like between the rise of identity politics, our youngest generation reporting record high
by jm__87 8y ago
Ah, I dunno. I can only speak for North America, but I personally feel like between the rise of identity politics, our youngest generation reporting record high levels of depression and anxiety, a massive divide between left wing and right wing and the rise of the far left and alt right.. it feels like a lot of people have lost their mind over here.
Edit: Not really sure what HN dislikes about this post. My goal here was to offer some actual aspects of North American society which many would agree to be worse than they were in recent history as opposed to simply saying "society is broken". I was expecting some actual discussion here.
- Retra 8y agoWhy do you think that any of this is new?
- naasking 8y agoThe concepts aren't new, the fact that they're now mainstream is new. Do you think Trump would have been elected 20 years ago? Do you think comedians would actually be scared to perform on college campuses 20 years ago? The insanity was always there, but has become mainstream.
- Omnius 8y agoThese things come in waves and it happened in the early 90 late 80's also. We get ultra PC it goes to far we over correct and the start inching back to it.
- naasking 8y agoI don't know, did we actually over correct from the "ultra PC" movements of the 80s and 90s? I don't think we've seen anything like what's happened lately.
- jm__87 8y agoYou would disagree that American politics has become more polarized in the last two decades?
- Retra 8y agoWhat is the special significance of the 20-year time frame? It's not more polarized now that it was in 1860. Or 1760. Or 1960.
- jm__87 8y agoSure... but do you think it really makes sense to compare today to 1760 or 1860?
- dragonwriter 8y ago> You would disagree that American politics has become more polarized in the last two decades? Yes. American politics is not notably more polarized now than in the time immediately preceding the Clinton impeachment. (Now, had you said either 10 or 30 instead of 20, the answer would be different.)
- matte_black 8y agoThey did not lose their minds. They had them stolen.
- acchow 8y agoHave you read much history?
- jm__87 8y agoSure, do you disagree with any of my statements on a timescale of the past 2 decades? My point is, there are some aspects of North American society that have gotten notably worse. To be sure, other aspects have gotten notably better in the same time period. But the fact that a lot of the craziness I mentioned is now mainstream I personally find to be troublesome.
- LifeLiverTransp 8y agoJust look at imgurs dog-mania. All those people uncapable of relationships placeboing them with those poor animals. Naked, dancing in the moonlight insane as it gets.