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As someone who grew up in the 90s, so many things seem to have changed to just cause a ton of anxiety that we didn't have when I was growing up. A typical day
by throwaway22032 2y ago
As someone who grew up in the 90s, so many things seem to have changed to just cause a ton of anxiety that we didn't have when I was growing up.
A typical day for me as a teenager would be to wake up, have breakfast (or maybe not), walk to school, strictly pen and paper work only, hang out with my friends at lunch. We might play Gameboy after school, the same game for weeks on end. If I wanted something to do I had to go outside and play, at home we maybe had books, it's a self limiting form of entertainment.
Now it feels like everything is just so much more complicated. The me of today would wake up and stare at his phone for half an hour before even getting to school. It's just massive overstimulation all of the time.
Mindfulness, even in adults, I find is a hack to avoid actually doing the things which lead to stress reduction.
- sublinear 2y agoAll this overstimulation is driven by marketing. Nothing really changed except the rate of consumption of information. Staying focused is more important than ever. Not enough people know how or care to fight all these nasty attempts to move their locus of control outside themselves. Once you know what you want out of life it's much easier to keep things in control. As the old Simpson's episode said: "just don't look".
- gosub100 2y agoCan you imagine what kind of shit show the first presidential election will be with gen Z candidates? I'm not taking a dig at the generation, but the social media posts that will be unearthed by the opponent's campaign. I predict we'll see would be presidents get sacked at the 11th hour due to things they said on Myspace in 8th grade.
- throwaway22032 2y agoThis stuff is super unpredictable to me. In the US as far as I can tell the right wing has a "traditional" leader that has sex with prostitutes, and the left wing gets upset if you call a man a man. It's basically random as to whether a completely reasonable opinion will be seen as verboten, or a completely bonkers opinion will be seen as okay, so I mean, who knows?