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In the US, society is increasingly breaking down and will accelerate in doing so.
by silisili 5y ago
In the US, society is increasingly breaking down and will accelerate in doing so.
- Renegade98 5y agoWe can see that is actually happening and so it's a fact. Belief is only necessary when you can't see what is actually happening. In this case society breaking down. We have seen it. It is true!
- xeromal 5y agoI've always appreciated Dan Carlin's line "climbing the ladder in wooden shoes and descending in silk slippers". Post WW2 was the pinnacle of our achievements and we've been coasting since. It's going to take something traumatic to make us hard and capable again or we're going to dry up what we have left and descend into disorder. It takes hard people to build a functioning society. I always hoped 9/11 would rejigger us, but I guess it's too late for that.
- hobs 5y agoIs that why pax romana lasted for 800 years or what? Imo the "hard people" meme needs to die.
- xeromal 5y agoI agree with you but Rome went through wax and wane phases for 800 years. Just because you were born in those 800 years doesn't mean life was good. Hell, 60-80% of those emperors were absolute shit or murdered before they could do anything.
- iab 5y agoIt’s the old hard-men/easy times trope again
- tmn 5y agoEven if the meme dies, nature will reenforce it eventually. If you extend into the future past your expected life time this is inevitable.
- deltaonefour 5y agoThis is actually not true. The entire world has never been more at peace than it ever has been throughout all of human civilization. Crime is down, lifespans are longer.... the only thing that I can think of that's definitively worse is wealth inequality. While the world has improved our perception of the world has turned increasing negative. This is mostly because of the media and how the media uses fear to grab attention. But make no mistake, your children and you live in a world that is safer than it ever has been in the history of humankind.
- fghgg 5y ago#dontlookup
- deltaonefour 5y agoThey want you to be constantly looking at the wrong place.
- systemvoltage 5y agoI thought it was ok. Basically left-wing hollywood throwing rocks at the right-wing big-wig corporate culture, which was admittingly quite hilarious. But, 10 mins in and I've already seen 1) Marijuana 2) LGBTQ references 3) Race/Racism points being made. I wish they also added some satire of the progressives.
- silisili 5y agoI tend to think of myself as a bit of a conservative centrist, and thought it did a decent job insulting everyone. Probably the right more than the left, but that's to be expected given who made it. I didn't find the main villain to be right wing. If anything, a BezosZuckerbergMusk conglomeration that acted pretty annoyingly progressive in mannerisms and requests. To me the left was portrayed as social media addicted idiots, and the right as purposefully ignorant idiots(dont look up). In the end, I think someone on either side would end up offended.
- silisili 5y ago
- trinovantes 5y agoNo government in human history has lasted more than couple hundred years. I doubt the US will be any different. The only question is if it'll be violent civil war or if it'll just be an uneventful transition to the next republic like many European countries in the last century.
- hackerbeat 5y agoAgreed. The US is on the brink of getting ripped apart by a civil war.