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Society isn’t collapsing. It is revealing itself. What does that even mean? Is it revealing itself as being intrinsically ephemeral or something? How is that n

• Swizec 4y ago
  It means the parts of society that were previously hiding are now visible and interacting with you. This can be jarring. The societal unity we remember never existed. People who are different were just hiding or invisible. To avoid stereotypical-for-usa examples (gays, immigrants, blacks), go ask a teenage goth growing up in a small town in the 90’s what it was like to be the only goth person in their entire environment. Bet it was super fun and they felt totally accepted by all. Now go back 30 more years and someone in a similar position wouldn’t even have had access to information that would tell them it was possible to be anything other than $vanilla. They felt different and had no way of knowing that’s okay. The Jackass Forever documentary, of all places, shared a really good insight when they said ”You can’t even comprehend what a big deal MTV was in the 80’s.”.
• ss48 4y ago
  It means that people in society are being exposed to things that they wouldn't have been in the past because the ways we communicate changes with regards to faster and more available means of communication, and that our perceptions and reality are different. In reference to their past perception when unaware of this, it would seem that society in contrast is collapsing, even when the state of society has not changed. If we collectively become more aware as a society of an issue, then it's revealed to society in a way it has not been in the past despite no or limited actual deterioration.