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People lack a support system. Before we lived in villages with lots of family and a very tightly woven social fabric. With technology and urbanization everyone
by uptownfunk 2y ago
People lack a support system. Before we lived in villages with lots of family and a very tightly woven social fabric. With technology and urbanization everyone is isolated. Covid isolation has exacerbated it. We are still evolving to create a race that can thrive in this new social setting after thousands of years of a different type of society. I prefer the former, my neighbors kids just randomly pop in almost daily, they have fun and it’s like a village and family. But I suspect society is progressing more towards this type of socially isolated type of dynamic, people on screens, to themselves. Easier to control us that way and better for disease transmission.
- weakfish 2y agoYou lost me at “easier to control” - who? What? Where?
- uptownfunk 2y agoIf people are isolated and don’t have social support and are therefore more emotionally vulnerable and unstable (basically we are put into isolation to a lesser degree than prison inmates) then it is easier for the government to control us.
- weakfish 2y agoWhy do you believe the government seeks to control us? Genuine question
- uptownfunk 2y agoThe government has laws that it makes you obey. American Values they want you to have. Money of yours that they take. How is it different from control?
- zo1 2y agoNot OP. I don't think they actively want it or pursue it as some sort of conscious objective, it's just something that makes a lot of things easier for government. It's essentially gradient descent and the government following the thing that's slightly better for it, with no view of the bigger picture.