Does Anyone Else Feel Like Everything Has Changed?

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[@H_cked]

whoever you are it seems like you aren't playing when it comes to dressing, your dressing was completely impeccable especially the first outfit at 1:00 and the second,expecially with the hair and glasses. whoever your wardrobe assistant is, i hope you give them a raise. You truly deserve to be in one of those historical period piece movies. i would kill to see you in a bespoke historical suit like maybe 14th century or bridgerton level dressing.

[@ajshaka3212]

Boo

[@H_cked]

@Revolutionary Utena you don't know what you are missing out on. this is how the rich hide there wealth,. either way your choice

[@rosemaryclucas456]

Your periodicity reflects a eurocentric world view. The world is a lot bigger than that and many indigenous people have suffered their cultures ending outside your mooted inflection points

[@ToddDouglasFox]

Yet nitrogen has toxified the air more so than any other human endeavor. Oxygen in ambient air is at best 50% of what it was before humanity was spared starvation by adding manufactured nitrogen to soil. We are all suffering from oxygen deprivation on the full cellular level (among other problems resulting from nitrogen production). Postulate how many diseases run rampant with low oxygen, whilst the human organism suffers. With the explosion of certain diseases linked to either low oxygen or NOT ENOUGH oxygen, certainly this is a matter of great concern. We need bright minds (young, old, in between) to find solutions. But where to find those with these minds who are willing to problem solve harmoniously with other bright minds? Hmmm 🤔

[@tracysmith5497]

I am 57. Not only does it feel like " something wicked this way comes" but there is also this feeling that the whole world is holding it's breath. Almost as though we are all waiting for some catalyst or sign or event that puts an end to this feeling of being put on hold. This vague, unexplained unease we feel. Something terrible lurking just out of our field of vision but we all feel it closing in. I cannot count the number of people who have told me they wish that whatever is going to happen would just get on with it. That this waiting for the thing in the darkness is unbearable.

[@kaprica.1]

same age, and i actually use the same quote, often … “ by the pricking of my thumbs…” weirdly been expecting it for most of my life

[@maryshellsmith6627]

I’m 53, and yes, I absolutely feel like everything has changed. I’m always saying that the world today is a different place, things are different now than when I was growing up, and even since just the last decade, and the world today is not a nice place. I love the internet, but it’s also evil. We have no privacy anymore and anyone could hack anything. I am just waiting to see what is going to happen, because I feel like we are in the beginning of a major turning point in the world, but I just don’t know what, exactly, is around the corner, and it’s scary.

[@theloranclan3225]

You put in to words what I’ve been feeling the past 2 years! I just couldn’t explain it. This comment made me feel less alone and crazy. Thank you!

[@doge2themoon373]

it might be age that you are afraid of, I work in a senior care home and i noticed this with the residents. kinda like time is coming to an end. Some embrace it and others don’t. We all have a choice wether we accept it or not. understanding that the time you have right now in this moment you need to live for.

[@MrZaborskii]

@@doge2themoon373 at fifty seven, OP is anywhere between 7-35 years away from going to a nursing home, depending on how healthy they are.

[@miles4060]

What's weird to me is the shift in the relationships. I remember the times when there were no mobile phones and we used to communicate more often with relatives. Now that there are tons of apps that allow you to reach out to people, there's hardly any communication. I lost contact with half of my relatives. For no apparent reason. I just feel so isolated. And every relationship, every friendship feels shallow. It wasn't like this before

[@veganvocalist4782]

I agree , I prefer face to face and breaking bread with others if possible

[@bmona7550]

In countries that are developing it’s quite different. People still talk a lot face to face there. Sure there are modern changes but the atmosphere whenever I visit those countries is like being sent back in the 90s and early 2000s. People are just that social. Whenever I go back to the US, communication with others is more distant and polite rather than having real substance and with genuine interest.. I feel that what you guys are feeling are common in developed countries. It’s all going too fast, we need to take it slow and try being more social and understanding again

[@oscarplant6371]

When you always can, you probably won’t.

[@xyoungdipsetx]

This comment! I feel the same way before iPhones it was easier to talk to girls and go on dates. Now girls have so many options because of social media you can’t even talk to a girl

[@brennanruderman5667]

@@oscarplant6371 exactly, we are desensitized to opportunity

[@imzeus8214]

I know something has happened ever since COVID started. Things don't feel the same anymore and time passes so fast that we can't even enjoy a bit of it. I feel like humanity is waiting for something to happen, something that will bring us back together like before. It gets tired of living when everyday is the same and nothing feels real to me, to anyone anymore.

[@nicreven]

I feel like there's gonna be some sort of revolution, y'know things've been stirring for a while, and more and more people have been speaking up about it it's just we need to act, I guess but, against what..?

[@rkt6240]

It’s so comforting to know I’m not alone

[@flovv4580]

The Matrix

[@mattayre7746]

Yep, exactly this - good summary. Life has felt very samey since Covid and it's been hard to enjoy every day.

[@ReginaTrans_]

The last decanate of Pluto in Capricorn entered in early 2019, if u noticed a subtle but important swift of this world we live in since 2008, that became stronger in 2012 with the Pisces Neptune craziness, all those things hasn't ended AT ALL, but certainly starting to show its tipping points, or decanates, the Capricorn thingy that started in 2008 with all this workaholic, cold, job office obsession we've been living for the past decade, literally reached its pinnacle in early 2019, with a less workaholic attitude but more servicing and smart, that the pandemic made bigger in 2020, we've been transferred to a virtual world, autonomous jobs, cars and home office were things that already existed since 2015 but the pandemic made them a reality, time is going faster because of this, then the last decanate of Neptune in pisces arrived in 2021, last 2 years, it added to the craziness, kinda cyberpunk vibes, everyone got really intense and surreal but happier, I started taking hormones finally, around 2021, i couldn't just take it anymore, and not only me but everyone else has been different since spring 2021, a lot of bisexuality, cynicism, etc, but in a cool way, I haven't been so close to straight men since 2021, and overall the whole world is riding this "new thing", which will only increase EXPONENTIALLY as pluto dwells into Aquarius this summer, things will get kinda scary, even for me!!!! the eccentricity and craziness of Aquarius is stronger than Capricorn, because Aquarius is unexplainable, weird, etc, the only ones who will just Swim through the next years will be Gen Z and Gen Alpha, people born after 1996, they will just adapt brand new, and oh my god, will they scare us, sum that to tech reaching its tipping point also in Aquarius, expect Alexa to grow legs and clean the house, autonomous factories, cities, etc, everyone exposed more than ever cause no one will have the right to privacy, thats too expensive and high maintenance for a robot based world that a.i won't really find practical for a decent human treat, not just for robots but for actual humans, 2023 and 2024 will seem like that but the real thing happens in 2025 as pluto finally leaves Capricorn and also Neptune leaves Pisces in favor of a world thats already built for this, just in its awaiting, Pluto in Aquarius and Neptune in Aries, a whole new set, think of it as the animatronics of 5 nights at Freddys, just waiting to "revive" and finally have a work thing to do!

[@Hello_jo]

I don’t feel like I can even make friends anymore. It always turns out that people are trying to sell you something.

[@sihargreaves]

Hey I know what you mean.... Wanna buy my course on how to fix it?

[@J_van_can]

I agree… there are very few I invest my time in anymore. It’s rather sad to admit.

[@S2hawnn]

​@@sihargreavesgood one😂

[@allthingschanice2485]

Or beg you something

[@julie2673]

I felt like that when I was a stay at home mom. You’d meet another mom at a play date who wanted to “meet for coffee” only to try to sell you something. It was gross.

[@tugaroocrab]

I’m 71 years old. The world feels unsettled to everyone. It has felt this way before many times. I lived through a lot. An example is the Vietnam War when we were sending people my age off to a foreign country to fight a war and we didn’t know why we were fighting and dying in this foreign country. But believe me things will change. Hopefully there will come a time when you all will feel more settled.

[@Torppey]

Thank you for this

[@acooksla]

I agree although this time I think it’s a bit darker and more sinister, I think it’s not like before because we have more humans than ever on the planet with a shrinking amount of natural resources. It isn’t going to end well. I think that’s clear. We didn’t change the direction environmentally, years ago and now it’s too late. Enjoy your older age and be thankful you are almost out, I know I am.

[@penseagrandegrandeseancole7974]

People should look at this comment lol.

[@gnickthegnome1981]

@@acooksla gonna come a time where the young folks have to wage war with their very existence. The crucible of our own making will not be forgiving, but it will neither be a condemnation. Not for all of us, anyway. What we have done to the world is the truest horror I could imagine.

[@tanizaki]

We were sending 71-year-olds to Vietnam? No wonder we lost.

[@YouAreNotThatGuy4844]

As someone born in the mid 90s, I think the world started to change (for the worst) during the ealy 2010s and everything degraded after that. Internet, social media and smartphones stopped being a cool novelty and became the primary addiction for a good portion of the global population, myself included. Life felt so different before that. Covid lockdowns destroyed whatever was left.

[@peter7582]

I swear there was some big change in 2012, and another every 4 years since then. And not for the better

[@divisionoflabor3070]

Can confirm. And it really got bad around covid, and hasn't recovered.

[@funeyshoot2843]

Couldn’t agree more

[@colir6437]

literally reading this while I have one hand holding my phone and one hand on my mouse

[@MX-rd3fc]

As born in 1979, i cann even agree with your statement or feeling. In my feeling the tipping point was around 2005 to beginning of the 10 years

[@katie.g.]

2015 to now feels like a completely different universe than the one I grew up in. It feels like we’re all stuck on a ride & we’re just waiting and hoping we will get off of it soon. Like everything we experience is not really organic , it’s just like a manufactured amusement with no real meaning behind it , just like part of the ride. That’s like 80% of our lives now. Just that feeling.

[@pabloescobarschanclas]

this.

[@miminotbovered2857]

THIS!

[@katym3981]

Kinda like a filler episode!

[@lockdownudein]

I had that same thought! Like everything is part of a “life experience package” you could get from an existential travel agent.

[@kzavera]

what do we do?

[@xxafthabxx9346]

Its crazy how everyone in the comment section is feeling the exact same thing... Nothing excites me anymore

[@Mr.Storytime959]

Most these comments r bots bruh…

[@GriffinTracker]

@@Mr.Storytime959 you talk like one, what's your excuse

[@Mr.Storytime959]

@@GriffinTracker sorry ur life is miserable

[@LifeisLikeGame]

Wow, and i thought i was the only one feeling this way since i was in jr high

[@aggagg2172]

because we saw title and clicked. thats why. maybe its not everyone

[@marconiiii]

I'm 33 years old and yes, I feel like this society has a weird vibe and a lack of hope that is just sad, especially when I look at the younger generations. It's a mess

[@TehBananaBread]

Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. All you losers were just raised to be weak. Generation under you will crush you.

[@RocketPropelledWombat]

"First time?"

[@RocketPropelledWombat]

@andrewryan8507 That'sss life! Welcome to planet erf

[@marconiiii]

@andrewryan8507 what do you mean?

[@marconiiii]

@andrewryan8507 yeah, I get it from a business/career standpoint, but my point is more oriented toward culture, and modern society

[@samsam2004]

I'm a 46 old french man and I live in Paris. I can tell you that we feel the same way over here. Maybe and probably, it's the same everywhere in the West. What used to be fun is no more. I've stopped enjoying watching football and basketball because it's boring. I watch only movies who were made before 2010, I listen to old music, I don't go out anymore, I just go eat to restaurants sometimes with friends but it's only to complain about how things are sad and how our politicians are ruining our lives. The population is supposedly growing but the streets get empty very early at night. There is no vibe anymore... I'm single with no children and It almost seems impossible to meet a woman these days. Everybody feels lonely but nobody wants to make any efforts, people are depressed and just want to go home as soon as possible. I don't go on social medias because it's an awful way to spend time and to meet new people, everything seems so fake and so superficial. I think that this lingering feeling of emptiness that we all experience comes from the fact that the world is changing too fast and we all know that the crazy people who are in charge are preparing something dark and therefore we can't plan anything for the futur. We have no real goals because the futur seems so uncertain. Therefore we are on autopilot and we are waiting for something to happen. The fog is too thick right now, we're just waiting for the horizon to get clear. I miss the 80s and 90s when humans used to dance on slows, you could instantly connect physically with other people, the world was so easy. Now there are too much rules and everybody is just insane. Anyway...I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one to feel this way. I wish you peace my brothers and sisters, and let's all pray for a better futur.

[@OneSpiritOneBody]

What's coming will be very difficult for those who have children, especially small ones. I began to warn quite a few years ago that now is not the time for building families and living life as usual. That message mostly didn't go over too well, but perhaps the word will reach one or two who are still on the fence.

[@GoldenEraBox1ng]

I hear you brother

[@HotelMari0Maker]

Very well articulated. I was born in 97 but I relate to this comment so much. I’m grateful I at least had a childhood upbringing mostly free of the internet/smartphone grasp :/

[@jornada.del.muerto]

I'm 31. Same, I tend to not watch new movies anymore.

[@maryannewhite3620]

I feel the same way. And I don’t watch new movies either. I feel like they’re brainwashing me somehow. I just don’t know how they’re doing it.

[@sheehy933]

Imagine if you grew up in the 1960's and 70's like I did. The world feels like it's been turned upside down and inside out. I am amazed, bewildered, aghast, and in a state of disbelief at what has happened. It's almost like a bad dream that bled into real life.

[@Liquidsmoke206]

I grew up in the 80s and 90s and even I'm like...wtf??? Especially in the past 5-10 years. It really seems like every person I meet is either totally stupid or totally fake, or both. at 45 I'm about as young a person as you can find who grew up without the internet. truly horrifying...iddinit?

[@aarongaffney725]

Absolutely! My dad was born in the 50s come and I was born in 1978. And when I tried to have conversations with him about the state of the world, most of my life He is he He is oblivious and in denial about what's going on and a horror show of it all appear. When you grew up with they leave it to beaver and mentality, and everything was going good and there were still trustworthy politicians, and America was actually trying to make the world a better place too on some level instead of just consuming last dollar and Calorie of energy - It's just hard to conceive everything that's gone so horribly wrong, Even when you see happening right in front of your face!

[@lindajohnson4204]

Christisn, not fake, and we do think that it is more than a coincidence that so much that we see matches Bible prophecy. And no, theres no cold-blooded cosmic wheel demanding its cyclical Malthusian moment. Those are human people with willful mass murder in their hearts, which is heartsickeningly sad, yet the bigshots are grinning, ever more ruthless. And in the Bible, Jesus says that if He did not return when He does, no life would be left on earth. At this time in history, I can believe that.

[@BillysFingers]

I grew up in the 60's and i agree.

[@hjones4922]

@@aarongaffney725 Biden seems pretty trustworthy tbh. But then he is a politician of that 60s/70s vintage.

[@nikcoleangell]

I have noticed an alarming rate of non-empathetic people and negativity

[@arbucklemcshittee7125]

Are you an American? I know here we have that problem ... almost an accelerated, maniacal Americal-style shit-down-the-other-guys-throat capitalism. I think in part it is the Last Big Gulp - wealth rushing to squeeze the resources out of everything & everyone they can, as fast as they can. Other things as well, perhaps? The monetization of every human interaction, of time, of thought? Fear, which we have always had driving our anger & hate, but more "final" as we know everything is NOT going to be ok, whatever happens? IDK. After a decade or so I am still trying to wrap my mind around it.

[@flavioa6351]

Those are bots. Get off the internet and go into the real world

[@nikcoleangell]

@@flavioa6351 im sensing some negativity here

[@ShonenMaster33]

​@@nikcoleangellYes, on social media the developers want to make us fight for anything, and now people doing the same in real life, the technology and social media apps won... humanity is on crisis, and for me... look i can't even talk to my family or parents, they are watching the phone and distracted, i feel we are so fkcd UP!!!

[@ShonenMaster33]

​@@nikcoleangell I know 2 girls of my family one with 4 years and the other with 6... they are owners of a phone at that age... we are going to Fkc up ourselves as society

[@taogarrett]

I was born in the 70’s grew up in the ’80s. The ’90s were good. The world was so different it's hard to explain to someone who never experienced it. We're never going back to those times; I'm just happy I could live it.

[@bscott9141]

I'm honestly jealous I came in hot in 1997. I wish I was alive in 1990 at least to get the full experience of the 90s 😔

[@damien4061]

I’m the same, born in 1970 and I appreciate your perspective but I actually think the current generation are remarkable precisely because of the knowledge revolution that technology has ushered in, in many aspects there’s a pronounced decrease in ignorance compared with my generation.

[@jimmyschmidt14]

@@damien4061 Decreased ignorance but decreased self awareness?

[@jimmyschmidt14]

@@bscott9141 Some people didn't have a good time in the 90s so lets take off the rose colored glasses of nostalgia. But yes things were different. People were poorer, bored and ignorant. So bored you would gladly walk down the street hoping someone was outside so we could alleviate the drudgery. Loneliness was amplified because we couldn't jump online and instantly have 2 billion stranglers to interact with. But there was something nice about there being no digital world.

[@curtiswilliams7306]

How tragic is it that the successor generations can only vicariously have a frame of reference for 90s life!!!

[@Thedesertguy75]

For me it's a feeling of staleness, like there's nothing to be excited for anymore. Literally going through the motions but feeling as if I'm not here. Literally like living through a simulation. Life feels unreal. After everything that happened in 2020, we're carrying on trying to pretend like nothing happened. It's like a universal jadedness. Something feels off. Maybe like everyone's saying... We're waiting for the bottom to drop out. I don't know, but it sucks. I think it's system fatigue... Tired of playing the capatalistic game of chasing money. Something is disconnecting us at the core. I think it's tech....we interact more with it.. than each other. Our human need to physically connect and feel valid feels severed, and that is a serious problem. It feels like we're losing our humanity... And tech has a major role in it. Anyone else?

[@paulbartell38]

Hi Chris. Your comment particularly resonated with me. Yes..someone else here, too..

[@kendrajones9708]

I agree with you 100 percent. I think it’s a mixture of post covid stress and endless technology. The further we remove ourselves from nature, the further we are from peace.

[@nadiaaguirre9466]

You couldn’t have said it better. Sending 💕

[@archivedaccount2000]

I think its a lot to do with overstimulation ruining dopamine system - in junk food, social media, all this instant gratification etc. When i go a week without my phone, getting quality sleep, eating clean, going outside more, and maybe meditate and being healthy: i feel myself again and my mind is not clouded. My ideas flow better and I am more creative and interested in life again.

[@damianreid2452]

Nailed it.

[@kassybarrett5405]

It's so validating to hear someone say this out loud. I feel so detached lately and like I'm living in some sort of fever dream.

[@nunu4evaaa]

ily , same.

[@nunu4evaaa]

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[@supermanfan241]

Same! The world has just not felt right with me since 2019

[@MelissaR784]

Feels like we're trapped in a communist dystopia in a Twilight Zone episode. Only happy thoughts less we're sent to the corn field.

[@Turquoisenancy]

Exactly how I’ve felt all Christmas!

[@tyremanguitars]

38 here, the biggest shifts I have noticed was 1. after 2001 when 911 happened, people became more fearful and paranoid 2. after facebook came out 3. after the iphone came out and 4. since the first lockdown in 2020.

[@BebeDaul]

I noticed the biggest shifts after the election of Obama in the US and then Trudeau in Canada.

[@RestrainingHollywood]

This

[@user-mb3dx5fl9f]

@@BebeDaul this is very true actually. I feel like Obama is largely to blame. Dude broke the old normal system even though it wasnt ideal and instead made everything operate on some opportunistic and chaotic mess. The rest stems from this change. As crazy as it sounds but I wish Hillary won in 2008. Then barely anything would have changed compared to the Bush era. We would have kept living in the normal good old world.

[@Tevin-MK]

@@user-mb3dx5fl9fwhat did Obama specifically do that former presidents didn’t do?

[@JamesO512]

​@@user-mb3dx5fl9f How exactly is Obama to blame? I honestly don't see it at all.

[@jasperblack4648]

I'm 18 and I feel like I'm trying be an adult in a world I don't recognise from when I was a child. I feel like I've been robbed of any stability in my life and forced into an unnatural way of life. Everyone seems to be sitting around waiting for the Internet to fail so we can go back to real life.

[@usherthecl1max]

Good news. Kinda?? Your brain doesnt fully mature until age 25 so dont worry if you dont feel like youre being an adult yet

[@29DPT]

Yup

[@lanceg2533]

Everything you do matters. Take life day by day, set goals for yourself and understand that you have a whole lifetime of things to learn. I've always felt the same way you do, but no one ever got anywhere by going nowhere.

[@furrosama]

Gg, new adult gang in an unknown world lets goo

[@aurora_skye]

Same

[@colecarter1464]

I’m 19, an i can safely say that everything has slowly been feeling more and more off since about 2016-2017. Especially in the past 2 years, it feels like the an entirely new universe that we live in, but still vaguely and eerily similar.

[@tifKh]

I’m 36, and I feel like your 19 years were lived in an entirely different universe than my first 19 years. It’s wild.

[@colecarter1464]

@@tifKh No doubt. I was born after the turn of the millennia. I was using a desktop computer to play games and connect with others from the age of 5 onward. Some of my best childhood memories are in an xbox 360 party playing games with my friends from school and others from half way across the planet. It's insane.

[@lizsegal5328]

2016 was a pivotal year, it was also a year when we lost sooo many celebrated people

[@BrgArt]

@@tifKh being 23 i barely seen and felt what it was like to live in 2005-2006. And the general atmosphere was so much more different. It feels like everything back then was just a weird dream of a hopefull world looking back on it.

[@royzlatanestevez9843]

You are just growing up, Cole. I wouldn't put too much stock into year-to-year comparisons before age 33, because you yourself will change so much that it will obscure the way the world changes. This is why there are almost zero writers below the age of 33 who write anything profound, and few even who are younger than 40. You can't see the reality yet.

[@anndroid5147]

My brother and I had this realization in our early teens around 2012. Nothing off was happening at the moment, in fact, we were on the swing set in the park and it was a beautiful day. I asked him: "Doesn't it feel like the world might end in our lifetime?" And we talked about whether or not we would get a chance to fully live out our lives like our parents. If any of it mattered. That feeling never went away. I can distract myself by getting a degree and pursuing a career in my field, but there's that lurking feeling that almost feels like a survival instinct, something like a deer in headlights. If I dwell on it for too long, it tends to eclipse my hopes and dreams. It makes me feel so small, insignificant, and fragile like whatever is coming will squash me like a bug.

[@emmydollies]

i've always sort of felt that way too. like i could never picture myself as an old person

[@TSMSnation]

my mom thought the same thing when she was young, and so did my grandma. it's nothing new. everyone thinks their generation is the beginning and end of all things.

[@alikarol3]

What your feeling is the realization of your own mortality.

[@countryboy1518]

When I lived at my parents house the backyard had a crick and woods on the other side. When we first moved there the trees were all green and taken care of. Since we moved the trees in the woods have mostly died off and became overgrown. About a year before covid happened I would look at the woods and started getting this overwhelming feeling that something was coming, just didn't know what it was. Then when covid hit, everything changed and I realized that was what I felt coming. Since then I always feel uneasy and as I learn more about the stuff going on today.

[@anndroid5147]

@@TSMSnation I wonder how the psychology behind this shared experience works, it's interesting to think about imo 🤔

[@excalibur9768]

Something began to change in 2012, accelerated in 2015/16, and then in full swing by 2020. Whatever is happening is by design and irreversible now.

[@creekcreeperrc7972]

I believe you're spot on.

[@Sting1986]

@@creekcreeperrc797290% of people I know told me they feel this shift but I can’t believe how they can just “move” past it… Like this feeling has a reason behind it it definitely isn’t a coincidence we all feel the same…

[@ShonenMaster33]

What is happening bro 😭😭😭 your comment make me scare

[@DrBowen]

2012 is the year that smartphones went mainstream as well as social media creating a gateway to the digital world alternative reality.

[@Stan-nu3bl]

And cern....

[@MissCarlyJoy]

I was house sitting for my parents recently and sitting on the back porch where I grew up. An overwhelming feeling of sadness came over me when thinking about the beautiful childhood I experienced there. I was born in 1993 and didn’t have a smart phone or social media until late high school. I am the last generation to grow up without these things. I realized that I will never get to experience the absolutely marvelous times I had in that backyard - not because I’m an adult and can’t relive childhood, but because the world I grew up in will never exist again. We have lost something we never knew we had. I am so grateful that I got to be here before the 2010’s, when it seems everything went wrong. I feel horrible, seriously horrible, for kids growing up post social media. They never got to live like I did and I showed up just in time to enjoy the last wonderful bits of the 20th century. Nostalgia just doesn’t feel like the right word to describe my longing for a different time.

[@rails723]

I share the same feelings of loss, you said it beautifully, and I've been struggling to make sense of it, It's helpful to know that others are feeling it too

[@Mackenzie-s4q]

I was born in '92 and similar to you i also didnt get my first cell phone until late high school. Growing up i climbed trees and road bikes and played kickball with the kids in the neighborhood. I didnt start using the internet religiously until around high school too. Glad i was able to experience things like that during that era before there was this drastic shift

[@wokeyoda96]

I’ll drive around the places I grew up and remember being outside all the time. Now it’s like people don’t even exist because you never see them.

[@chadmarino2741]

Seriously? Give me a break. “Woe is me the world sucks now because of the internet” What you remember is a different feeling than what you experienced. In 10 years from now you will be complaint how bad the world is and how much better it was 10 years ago when the fact is you were just younger and more vibrant 10 years ago and could enjoy that feeling more thoroughly, and now those feelings are harder to find because your hire ones aren’t racing anymore.

[@chadmarino2741]

Horemones

[@charlessalvia7176]

One issue is the world in general nowadays seems somehow more "empty". Like you can go out, but there's nothing interesting. (And I live in a huge city). One possible explanation for this feeling is that over time, technology has made it so there's less and less reason to ever leave the house. When I was a young teenager, I used to go to the mall to play video games at the arcade. Then arcades disappeared. Then malls started disappearing. Video rental disappeared. Movie theaters are still around... barely. Amazon makes it unnecessary to go out and buy all sorts of things. Nowadays you don't even need to leave the house to get groceries in some areas. The combined effect of this is that there's very little reason to leave the house, making the world feel kind of empty and uninteresting. And I already felt this way before Covid. Once Covid happened, the effect was multiplied by 1000.

[@ToastytheG]

At lEaSt iT's GoOdeR FoR tHe EnvIronMeNt

[@sleeplessstu]

I think you hit the nail on the head ! Your words are so true

[@jorgeenchilada]

I gotta be honest with you man. Your first sentence is essentially just you describing depression. Not to be that guy, but have you spoken with a therapist? Because that sentence is a dead giveaway, nothing seems enjoyable or interesting to you, and the world is empty.

[@divisionoflabor3070]

Goes to show that amazon is evil. It took the incentive away for people to interact. Same with social media. If our leaders cared about our wellbeing, they would regulate and ban things that atomize us, but that isn't the case.

[@rururu_en]

This is only in US and Canada tho

[@SugiesCookies]

I’m 34 and I’ve never felt more disconnected from my family and friends than ever before. I look at the news and my surroundings and I see how impatient people are with one another. I literally see and feel the love being sucked out of society, if that makes any sense. I’ve cried many times at this realization on my way home from work some nights….I yearn for the past.

[@nvmffs]

Your comment resonates with me so much, and we're almost the same age. Can't be a coincidence. The world is definitely heading in the wrong direction. If we can't even connect to our mother/father and best friends, what else is left? This either culminates in a huge transformation or a huge disaster. I'm still clinging to the hope it will be the former.

[@brushstroke3733]

After winter comes spring. We're in late autumn or early winter now. I think.

[@Dr.Vidisha]

Yes, its so true:(

[@annnee6818]

​@nvmffs i dunno I connect just fine? I think growing poverty (our billionnaire overlords squeezing us to death) makes us impatient and preoccupied with surviving. Having said that social media is a cancer and harms social skills for sure. But we can practice those at least

[@annnee6818]

I'm sorry but this is silly faux profound. No, not everyone can or needs to have an in depth understanding of every last freaking appliance to save society

[@Angelarc33]

One of the best comment sections EVER

[@kossibwaya]

For real

[@Sethdaknowledgeseeker]

Nothing but truth! Keep your eyes open my friend we are informing the masses ❤💯

[@bythewaterwithlove]

I’m a Gen Zer and I absolutely hate the direction this world is taking. Social media is the main culprit for the current crisis in loneliness, depression, anxiety, and lack of social interaction. We were told that our phones would bring us more together as a society, all it’s done is divided us more than ever before.

[@r.pres.4121]

iPhones have helped to expose the deep divide between the haves and have nots. That has contributed to the depression and other mental health issues.

[@ozarkrefugee]

Yep.

[@Songwriter376]

As far as electronics goes in being complicit in all this...there was/is always the 'off' button but who ever uses it? Since the word 'no' has been demonized and made taboo in todays society, we get what we have now.

[@rickeykoga2312]

I truly feel bad for GenZ and GenA. You guys are growing up in a very, very corrupt world that is more divided than I have ever seen in my life (33yo). In the 90s, adults were very concerned about 'the children' and what we saw/heard/felt. It feels like that is completely gone - no one cares about the children and they are growing up in a world that most adults are blind to. Similar to any generation of young people, but never with social media. It's scary to see how little families are raising and teaching children ethics and life skills - I'm a teacher and the lack of accountability at-home is pushing me out of the profession. I wish GenZ and GenA the best of luck with finding happiness, a loyal spouse, financial security, and peace in a time of horrific strife. There is something sinister about following the crowd nowdays - think for yourself and do what makes YOU happy.

[@aarongaffney725]

Absolutely! I am gen X., and game of age during grunge and rage against the machine. Where people were still putting up a fight against the corruption and evil in the world, At the very least naming it and talking about it. I have a daughter now and it's 1 of my primary objectives is spending time with her talking to her Helping her to see and understand the world and all it's complexity. Especially the way that somebody people are just sleep walking through life command that you don't have to do that. We all have a choice but it makes a big difference but our parents do Or don't do! Thanks for being a teacher and giving back come on what a wonderful Career choice but imagine incredibly frustrating in a lot of ways to.

[@MrKajovic]

I'm 27 and last year I had this conversation with my best friend about how be both felt that there's going to be a massive shift in the next decade. Like it feels enormous and indeed lurking around the corner. As if everything we do right in this moment is just so insignificant compared to the events that are up ahead. Indeed like the world is holding in it's breath. Reading all these comments really makes me believe that we all have this collective natural instinct and maybe we are not that detached after all.

[@UnseenEternalStudios]

It’s not that hard to understand… many have been warning you about the new world order for many many years. But many people still don’t try to understand what that means or how we got here. People are afraid to hear the truth.

[@Cryanister]

That's how I feel for almost a decade now. Like everything is so insignificant and trying t achieve something is a waste of time, since nothing will last. Really like something will happen "soon" that will make every effort put into anything before that event a waste of time and energy.

[@naps7039]

In my opinion, the next big shift is 100% going to be AI. Not the thinking conscious awareness type of AI, but AI that can do whatever you ask of it for you. Just look at these last few years where chatGPT and openAI and all these Ai that you can tell to create an image, artwork, novel, speech, anything, based on whatever specifications you want in the format you want, based on a specific genre or artist, and in 5 seconds it'll create something that never existed before that matches everything you've asked. It is in it's absolute infancy stage as of now, but even at this point it is extremely advanced and I believe people don't understand the implications of this new technology and how it will completely change everything for humanity and not in a good way. Sure, you can make the argument that having AI do tedious work for us is a big plus. Removing physically demanding or dangerous labor from our soft limbs and putting them into the hands of hard metallic machines who will do all of it with insane precision and speed is a plus, as it is for the worker who loses their job to it because maybe they won't get cancer from inhaling toxic chemicals or fumes for years or mess up their back for the rest of their lives or get some other life changing injury. At the end of the day, that is better for the human being. But what about every job becoming an AI only function? Do you think the company you work for(unless you own it yourself) wouldn't drop you and their entire work staff from top to bottom for just one or two AI that could do it all without sleeping or breaks or eating or any rest, just 24/7 perfect work with no vacation time or sick days being done faster than humanly possible? No need for coffee break rooms, renting buildings or facilities or buying paper towels and toilet paper, desks, computers, printers, etc. They'd save billions of dollars every year. But now we arrive at our next problem, what will people do with all this free time? How will we make money? Will money even exist anymore? The company that is researching and creating physical robot AI systems is also heavily invested into research of a universal basic income system or UBI. They know what our future will be and they're trying to come up with a way for people to not be absolutely bored and miserable because they suddenly have no purpose in life. They don't need to work, they don't need to find a way to feed their families or pay rent, they don't need to learn any skills whatsoever because AI will do everything for us. No more driving, no more taking out the garbage, no more cooking your own food or shopping. It all sounds great until you realize that you will literally have no purpose or meaning in your life. Have you ever been unable to find a job for longer than a week or been on an extended vacation? The first few days are fun and you think about all the fun you'll have while not being required to work everyday(at least for a lil while) and next thing you know, you're absolutely bored out of your mind, you look for any source of time wasting entertainment to keep you occupied to pass the days. This is why many retired people still continue to work, or why billionaires with enough money to buy another life for them and their families for generations still continue running their companies and making money. It isn't about money. We as human beings, need work to feel meaning in our lives, to have purpose and whether you love your job or hate it, like it or not, it gives you purpose and fulfillment. Human beings need struggles to overcome, we need challenge, we need to overcome challenges and obstacles to feel like our lives have meaning. It's like playing a video game with all the cheat codes enabled the second you start, it's great for the first 30 minutes or so, but after that you immediately get bored and quit the game and move on. It's nice to have it all, but that isn't what gives our lives meaning. It's overcoming challenges, big or small, usually both. Human beings evolved to constantly be overcoming struggles, hunting for food or starve, then we got agriculture and we created jobs to fill that void, now what'll happen when we no longer need to worry about food nor overcoming any challenges because AI will do it all for us? Imagine every single person on earth suddenly doesn't have to work everyday. It'll be a big fun party for a week maximum. It's like that rat utopia study, the rats were given a rat utopia to live in and they all died. They had no challenges, they had no desires. It was all over and they even stopped reproducing. Which brings us to another problem, what happens when AI dolls are completely fitted to be your perfect soulmate? I'm sure there will be some purists left after that living in some communes without AI at all, but just think about what humanity will look like once all this happens. That is the next phase of humanity. We will either merge with AI from neuralink, or we will merge with the internet and become a virtual society, like what Meta is trying to do. There simply won't be much else for humanity to do once we literally won't have anything to do. Do you remember when we were all stuck at home? Some worked sure but if you were one of the people who didn't I'm sure you can attest to exactly how that went down for you. If I had to guess, once AI is running our lives for us, we will all move into a matrix like virtual world. Some may create their own world exactly how they want it, others will just jump into the new virtual world that's a copy of exactly how it used to be before AI. Our bodies will be tube fed and AI will massage our muscles so they don't atrophy and clean us and help us use the bathroom while we all live in our virtual worlds because that will be the only way humans can have some type of fulfillment in their lives post AI. It absolutely terrifies me but I am sure this is a feeling we all have been having for a while now. As AI technology expands and innovates, we will slowly merge into this new reality and there is nothing we can do about it but wait and see what our future holds. Hell, maybe that is exactly what our current reality is and we just don't know it. Maybe this is the end of the line for every society, technological advancement until eventual withdrawal into a virtual world. I hope I am 100% wrong but it sure doesn't seem that way with what's been happening these last few years. Time will tell but I hope humanity will keep it's humanity.

[@zevkej]

Everything you do is insignificant, but where you stand means everything. Its a matter of the heart...

[@zevkej]

@Marco Ramires Its already like that. I'm in my early 30s and I talk to some old friends we've all moved and life took us in different directions but we cant seem to find any meaningful connections or any meaning at all really in life like we used to have. I have some early teenage family and they are so hollow and soulless, not that they're bad people but the difference from my generation to theirs is astonishing.

[@detBits]

In 2021 I went to work up in North Quebec, only accessible by plane or train. While there, a dog stole my phone from the ground next to me. I gave chase and the dog dropped the phone, smashing the screen. It flickered for days, then it died it entirely. For about a week I was really bothered, I could not get it fixed up North. Then something happened... I remember sitting in the work truck as we drove through the Taiga, and feeling a great sense of peace; that feeling was being completely present in the moment. I admired the trees out of the window, the colour of the sky, it all felt... different. Wow what a feeling. Without the ability to reach for my phone I was forced to be in the moment all the time, it was brilliant; that's the feeling we're missing now. Smartphones have ruined our ability to be in the moment, be present, take joy from the little things. Our receptors are being redlined at all times with constant stimulation. We aren't meant to live like this. So, I went and lived out of my hatchback in the Kootenays, cooking all my meals on an open fire, waking up to the might of the sun, hauling wood from the forest to burn to keep me warm and cook my meals. This was living, I felt at peace, I felt complete. I love my Galaxy S10, but when it kicks the bucket I'm not getting another smartphone, they are pernicious; they are no good for us. We can go back to the feeling we've lost, I did - for a time.

[@mlb6d9]

Good for you - you have seen the light! Best wishes to you!

[@tikabean4714]

Several years ago I took a trip to Nicaragua and just decided - no phone or computer. It was bliss the whole time. I think what you're saying is true.

[@nimanixo]

So true I think phones will cause the end for humans

[@lamagiduneinstant76]

~I’ve noticed feeling not only better, happier w/o the web -but what I really got was that I wasn’t Angry. All of the darkness was gone.

[@under_score3829]

I'm probably going to start a flame war for being "that guy" but this needs to be said. My experience with technology is different. I create things. I'm constantly writing down story ideas and making charts. I compose music of many different genres. My computer is very similar to a library -- a library of my own ideas that are precious to me, which is why, back in 2021 when my hard drive died and I almost lost all of my data for good, I was devastated (I wasn't very tech savvy and didn't know how to back up files at the time). But I wasn't devastated due to some obsession with the technology itself or addiction to "cat videos" ffs. I was devastated because my art was gone, ongoing projects I'd been working on for years. The sheer volume of it cannot be recreated from my memory (my memory is pretty terrible in general, which is part of why I write things down in the first place). In the early 20th Century, it all would have been written down on pieces of paper (some of mine are). If J.R.R. Tolkien's house burned down with all of his writings inside it, we would consider that a tragedy because all of that work is gone. Yet when someone loses the same thing digitally, what that's a triumph simply because it's digital? No, it's the same thing. The technology is just the medium. My primary concern about technology is dependence -- being too reliant on something I don't fully understand only for it to malfunction and for me to be lost. That's why as I advance in life I want to become more independent. I want my own micro power grid. I want my own private internet server. I want to decrease the amount of steps between fresh grown food and myself as much as possible. I want to learn how to do things. The more I know and the more I can do, the less I'll suffer when things break. My secondary concern is physical safety. Too much exposure to EMF radiation can harm the brain and body, leading to things like insomnia. But to say technology is evil for that alone is pretty biased, since it's also harmful for your body to drink unfiltered water with cholera in it, something technology helped stop. I'm sick and tired of people blaming technology for everything that's wrong with the world. 9 times out of 10 whenever someone complains about technology, it's usually something else that's the problem. The most stressful things I encounter in my technology heavy life come from tension-filled social situations, mainly the news and media discourse. But this is because the discourse itself is so disheartening and stressful. It would be just as disheartening if it was people gossiping in a town square in 1807. It's not the technology. It's people. I think the only reason losing your phone makes you feel "free" is because you lose a psychological obligation. Let me explain. Because so much happens every day, and because I have access to learning about it, I feel almost compelled to check the news or check the latest KZbin video criticizing a movie. Why? Maybe I'm afraid I'll miss something. Maybe I can't feel relieved until I know there's no immediate bad news waiting for me that day. Thus, because I'm able to learn about these things, I feel obligated to update myself, and failing to meet this obligation is stressful because it feels like falling behind. Thus, when the ability is taken away, sure, it can be liberating since the responsibility is no longer yours, in your mind. But this would all still be the case with NEWSPAPERS 30 years ago! If I was around back then, I would have had a similar mindset. People will always check things that are constantly updated. People feel compelled to check the weather because it might be dangerous. People are compelled to check the stock market because there might be a one in a million opportunity they don't want to miss. All of these things might use technology, but the technology itself is not the object of the obsession or the stress. It is merely a medium, and the most recent medium at that. If Twitter existed in Ancient Greece, Socrates would have used it to preach philosophy. Our world is not that different from how it ever was, and if anything, the Turnings should prove that, rather than disprove it. I'm all for spending a healthy amount of time outside or taking a healthy vacation from the pressures of work and life (which extend far beyond technology) but to oversimplify it as "phones are bad and they should stop existing" is very dangerous, because sometimes there is news you need to know, new laws and mandates that will wind you up in jail if you don't follow them, natural disasters that can devastate you if you're not prepared. Taking a break is fine as long as you're not sticking your head in the sand.

[@kippkippington]

100% agree. It feels like we're on a different planet than the one we lived on in 2000.

[@robbiej1705]

I'm convinced we switched dimensions or timelines from whatever these particle colliders can do

[@SheepSociety]

Ya think? That usually happens after a mass murder

[@WhyWhyWhy-ms3we]

Yes 😢😢😢

[@traductionscultureen-arver2307]

Agree. I was born in 1993, if there's one thing I want to fight for, is to get back to the world of 2000. Rare cell phones, barely internet, only tv and home phones. I feel that relationships already went down with texting and cheap texting. It ruined me between 2007-2012. That and KZbin started to problem. So we have to get each city to get to vote for technology banning. No smartphones, no wifi, only cable. And no texting, no account on KZbin

[@Gus.MonFries]

Good luck with that champ. That is never going to happen. Take off those rose coloured glasses. Social media and phones are NOT the problem. It's how people use them. People still literally every single day interact with each other which is wat I see all the bloody time.​@@traductionscultureen-arver2307

[@kenwatts3848]

I feel like I have literally slipped into a parallel universe. Things have been getting weird since about 2019 but, since covid, I feel like I’m living in a bad sci fi movie. Not just you, bro.

[@samathum4711]

Exactly...you can feel it in the air. Something is just off and different. It started when governments forced lockdowns... something shifted.

[@fNZGAMINGTV]

Exactly as that

[@ndizzle8069]

That's how I've felt for the past year or two. Something truly feels like it's coming, and probably not for the better. Jokingly, or half jokingly, I read an article about the hadron collider creating a parallel universe according to some conspiracy theorists. But the way things have been, it doesn't feel that far from the truth.

[@trjordan]

I’ve had that feeling since about 2012 or so

[@Guylock]

Same but I started feeling that way since 2008... Even though I felt that way in 2008, things got really weird at 2016, ever since that year; everyone and their little dog too have been flipping out like crazed banshee apes over the smallest things, not to mention that humanity has become FAR more ignorant than usual, it's as if something was controlling them, devolving them; perhaps devolving them back into monkies? It's as if a demon was taking them over or something... Demon: Lets make mankind monkey again! YEA great idea! it will makes it easier to enslave/ WIPE EM OUT! YA!!!

[@jodi9361]

I'm 26. Everything feels wrong, and I can't explain it. It's like this ongoing existential loneliness and constant anxiety. I don't know what I'm doing, where I'm going, who my friends are, etc. I'm not unhappy, just unsettled.

[@boomerang0101]

Alright Jodi, where are we meeting for our first date?

[@craigslist6988]

"I'm 26. [describes being 26]"

[@xxGuItArGiRLxx89]

It's a quarter life crisis. In your 30s - things will settle and be more meaningful, if you make the right choices.

[@djbneozen]

This is intentional. The media wants you to feel this. Find people that are not nuts. Stick together.

[@Isenseven1080]

I have one recommendation. Delete all social media, use your phone for only what it is. Actually do it, nobody really follows through. Technology has such a deep bite into society.

[@ericthiel4053]

Thought I was the only one. The fact I see so many here commenting they feel the same is comforting in a way.

[@clubadv]

Same here my good man. 50 years old and this feels nothing like I remember any more

[@gomamonthedigimon]

Yeah. It makes us connected. Some people would say "Nothing has changed." or "Every year is the same.", which express indifference and aren't 100% true, and every individual feels different feelings. Understanding is a first step to connection, otherwise, it's an empty and one-sided conversation.

[@rush4197]

Comforting yet deeply concerning

[@DieselBlood]

There is power in a band of working folk when we stand hand in hand. United we bargain, divided we beg. Workers must strike for better conditions. Without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. DONT SCAB FOR THE BOSSES, DONT LISTEN TO THEIR LIES. US POOR FOLK DONT GOT A CHANCE UNLESS WE ORGANIZE!!!!!!

[@HaveCommonSense76]

I feel the same way I thought I was going crazy.

[@tsmrg]

The last couple of years I feel this intense longing deep within myself. It‘s hard to put into words but it almost feels like I‘m yearning for a way of life that we have lost touch with and we have long forgotten. Most of us are working a job all day every day that we hate, have superficial relationships, caught up in materialism ect… Is this really how we are supposed to live?! Life feels incredibly robotic and soulless in this modern world. Where‘s the free time, spontaneity, geniune community and companionship, creativity, the focus on actual well-being .. I could go on and on. We‘re not meant to live the way we are right now…

[@byJaaxi]

Couldn't agree with you more.

[@jonm57]

No one seems to acknowledge that it’s changed so dramatically. I’m in my 50s. I recently met a guy my age and we began talking about how just the phone has changed things completely. We reminisced about how things were. It was like the twilight zone.

[@ragoff]

Could you imagine if the world population collectively threw they're phones in the garbage. What would happen? I find this fantasy liberating and almost possible.

[@DanielPeterR]

Just talking about the effects of the phone with a friend the other day. The Smart phone is the 2.0 of what TV did in the past. Remember the term couch potato? The difference is with the TV you would get off your couch and get out. The Smart Phone comes with you and creates a holographic social circle.... even the possibly getting paid using it. If you equate these 2 mediums to a drug. TV was Marijuana and Smart phone is Crack

[@sophieoshaughnessy9469]

@@ragoff yes. It’s the phone that has changed us. I love your vision. But then it is replaced by a darker vision where this action gets covertly promoted by Apple and Google, and everyone has to buy a new phone! 😮😂

[@ragoff]

@@sophieoshaughnessy9469 lol. or implant in the body. Its coming

[@shantitakemoto1058]

I’m 41 and I totally agree..and add internet and then social media/online commerce later..

[@frederikschouovesen8533]

I would say that, for me this past year has been incredibly hard in many ways personally. All sorts of realizations and epiphanies surrounding the status of society now and how unnatural and eerie everything seems to have gotten. I switched my Iphone with an old Nokia 2 months ago, in a leap of faith towards escaping the algorithms of our digital globalised world. As a 19 year old I see my generation incredibly damaged by this world, longing for meaning, uncertain of how to act, feel, talk and even think. This world is turning quickly, and no one seems to take notice. Glad you spoke up brother. Be safe.

[@rosewillow5757]

Find your hope in Jesus, he loves you and will save you if you ask him. May God bless you.

[@nicklilly3210]

“I wish it need not happen in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

[@ToddMagnussonWasHere]

There is no binding culture, ritual, or tradition in the epicenter of technocratic environments. You get “subcultures”, but they are not putting their masts in the same wind direction so to speak, what drove technocratic times say 10-15 years ago was lower general adoption with a mix of morally friendly novelties and in general, being augmentative and hobby like. Now it’s symbiotic or parasitic. The Jungian shadow of what technology is now is not even subversive, but overtly collected data, pumping in machine learning for AI repositories… And here forms a divergence, those that rather live with nature, wood stoves, livestock and some return to an actual culture and those who want to be waist deep into increasing digital novelty and VR and Amazon ordered funko-pops while streaming Phase 5 Marvel movies-a life akin to Demotion Man. Needless to say, you can’t force these extremes back together.

[@Eddi3Pwns]

Yeah, no one is really teaching these things, it's expected for many to figure out on their own, and with this increase grab for attention these distractions has sunk so many people into low places, also making it much harder than before to get out. Interactions with others have become more transactional and without meaning in a world that's already isolated

[@AngelWest58]

You are 41 years younger than me. You sound like you'll be okay. Be loyal to yourself. Trust almost nothing and you'll be fine.

[@centrifugalmuse]

I feel it too. I talk about it often because it’s always on my mind. Families used to talk and love each other. Big, extended families. Good relationships. Now, families hardly talk. Everyone puts an opinion out into the world online and everyone else judges it. Everything is being judged by someone, somewhere. I long for that 90s “yellow” sun, being outside, families and friends everywhere. Now it’s all garish white and tech.

[@yos.5684]

Oh my god this is so true. Family reunions were, by far, more common in the past. My parents would hang out with their relatives every single week, sometimes every other day, just for the sake of spending time at home eating, playing cards, talking... Now I see my relatives only once in a while, and those who aren't dead already... Also, in the 90s I'd play outside almost every day. My neighbourhood was full of kids in summer nights. My parents would stay inside or go for a walk, and we would be supervised by the elder siblings of my friends (who were only... 13, 14 perhaps??), they'd only get to us to call us back for dinner bed. Now, not a single kid at night in years, just deserted streets. I don't really see kids playing at night anywhere.

[@centrifugalmuse]

@@yos.5684 exactly!! I feel you, and I miss the same things ♥️

[@hopperstreams4487]

SOMEBODY ELSE REMEMBERS THE YELLOW SUN...THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME WHOS NOTICED

[@centrifugalmuse]

@@hopperstreams4487 yesss! It was so yellow and warm and comfy, like a home. Now it’s white and harsh and reminds me of a really hot hospital room.

[@_TheRam]

Couldn’t agree more. The 90s was the last golden age. People actually did stuff back then. But now it’s all about putting your feet up and watching Netflix.

[@v-22]

This quote has helped me a little when I'm anxious about most things: "we suffer more in imagination than in reality." The vast majority of my suffering has been in my head.

[@LovelySlappy]

As much as I can relate with this video and the comments here, I think this might be the stand out one for me, there often seems to be a constant disconnect between what I think is / has been going on and what actually is happening. Agree with that quote 110%

[@KTKaute]

If you were here before the internet, youll realise the change came with social media. There are no longer consequences for disrespecting others because youre sitting safely on your own spewing out hate to other people youll never meet. When you are without consequence, youre not able to develop empathy. You never have space alone or with your family because everyone can access you now. You wake up, look at your phone and immediately smashed into the opinions of millions of people around the world. Its so bad for mental health. We are all anxious, stressed, angry, frustrated and alone now

[@GoldenEraBox1ng]

What you're saying resonates with me.

[@OutHereOnTheFlats]

You are not wrong...yet we all have the power to reduce screen time and watch the birds fly through the trees. It is refreshing.

[@swordgolden830]

But most ppl are already drawn towards social media and other technologies that harms our brain without even noticing it.

[@notacloutchaser7407]

Eh, my family made me feel that way by 1996; so im pretty used to it now.

[@ratiquette]

@@OutHereOnTheFlatsWe do, but humans also have a drive to be where the action is - and the "action" of today (for many people, not all) is the having/judging of opinions in the consequence-less vacuum of the internet. There are real/meaningful ideas being discussed and developed, but for many of us that practical application is missing where the rare good that comes from online discourse just stays there because we are lacking real-life communities in which to put them into practice. We can stop looking at social media, but we can't escape its influence on our culture, economy, and relationships without serious concerted effort or the courage to do something wildly different with your life than most people. It hurts us whether we engage with it or not, and disengaging with it means sacrificing your participation in the big-c Conversation that nobody actually enjoys but everybody's talking about and everybody wants to get in on. I think it's a sacrifice worth making, but the scar it inflicted will be there forever. I've deleted most of my socials and am trying to connect with people who want something different, FOMO and familiar comforts be damned. Watching birds and feeling alive on your own is one thing, but being a social animal trying to untangle oneself from the most powerful communication tool in the known universe is another.

[@annettegustafson1435]

I'm 65 and feel like the world has turned against me. People are generally just uncommonly rude. I can't even strike up a conversation with a fellow shopper in the grocery store. They act as if I am a crazy old lady. Everyone is glued to their cell phones. They share very personal information about themselves on social media. I just don't understand 😞

[@oldhippie81]

I think it depends where you live. I'm 72 and live in a small village in Tasmania, Australia. When i take my dog for a walk, I offen meet between 5 and 10 people who all stop and talk young and old. I go to the city about 3 times a week and most people over 40 will strike up a conversation but most under 40 all have their ear buds in or are glued to their phones. I think there will be more very lonely people in 30 years time than now as they lose the face to face skills. Hope you have a good 2023🙂

[@tedoneilclark4710]

Your not alone it's epidemic.🙏

[@dustingre8]

If it makes you feel any better, I’ve noticed this and become even more welcoming and helpful to my surrounding elders than I already was. I fear it has to do with how these younger generations are raised. Most of them throw cell phones or iPads at their kids so they can stay distracted. It’s incredibly sad what our world has become.

[@we-must-live]

@@dustingre8 tell me about it! my sister’s friend, last Christmas Eve, enters the house, doesn’t even say hello, drops her toddler off for the 8 year old kids to handle, then lies down on the trampoline currently being built outside, half taking selfies with her phone and half bragging about her new hairstyle! needless to say, I slapped her in the face and told her to leave - now she’s ‘never coming over to visit’ because I was ‘disrespectful’… I’m half her age, and even I know what respect looks like.

[@Kraken9911]

I'm 40 but I also feel the same way. Yes I also love my phone, tablet, and desktop very much but I've made it a personal habit to never use my phone in public other than to check information necessary to what I'm doing ig: directions, what to buy. For safety I think one should always be aware of their surroundings and being on a phone is a greta way to get killed by a multitude of things. My other observation was how at a family gathering my older relatives in their 50's+ sit around and talk while off to the side all of our 18 and unders sit in a group all on their phones. I made the remark to someone how are these gatherings going to look in 20-30 years when they all are in charge? Will there even be gatherings anymore?

[@Imonetoo216]

What's happening is that we have lost touch with our "natural" selves . The solution is to get out into nature and off your device. I just spent 7 months in my camper living in state and national parks, and it was not only exhilarating. It was the most liberating thing I've ever done. I got home and was immediately depressed. Putting my house for sale and going to do it again.

[@juliazaleski364]

Amazing. We are going to rent our house out and live on a small sailboat and be barefoot all day in the sun. Van life was amazing, on to the next adventure.

[@sadmoneysoulja]

bruh they literally made a human save for 40 years to buy a house or a flat when you can build it yourself in no time, this whole thing is faaaaake, think about it

[@EmmaPlayzRoblox]

@@gingersnap7202 I know this probably wasn't meant to be a joke, but this comment genuinely made me laugh out loud.

[@blazel462]

So then, as they say, you will have nothing and be happy.

[@jimpollard113]

True enough; nature is our only reality. We are not wired to cope with AI, social media and big tech. They are the source of the modern day plague. They do what alcohol did to Native Americans; they act as solvents that dissolve a civilization.

[@BeanBYTESOF]

It feels like I am in a loop, Just the same thing every day. Its like looking at things behind a store window, your close but not there. Things lose there substance, and become mundane, everything is mundane

[@PaperParade]

Lately I’ve been thinking to myself that I don’t feel like I’m in the same world I grew up in, and I’m only in my twenties. And it’s really upsetting, too, because it seems it’s so many of the good things that have gone away. Even just a sense of normality and hope for the future, it’s hard to find any sense of ease. Things just feel dark. It’s good to know I’m not the only one, it lets me know I’m not just in some unexpected depressive episode.

[@appleheaddefender]

Same

[@Angreyelmo]

Literally same! I am 20 too, after 2019 everything changed.

[@Gutterrat69]

Agreed, im 23 and feel like it hit the catalyst in 2016

[@WhiteKnight308]

I actually found Christianity throughout these last few years and tbh it feels like we're living in the end times.... that's not said to scare anyone but to realise what's really important... being kind to others and getting right with the Lord 🙏 you are not alone and it's a relief to know others feel this way... obviously I wish things were different.... but I know so many of us are in same boat even though most of the time I'm isolated now....I just wanna give everyone in this chat a hug honestly most people need to start being kinder to others.... the majority of people I see are beginning to act like robots! People regaining their humanity might not solve all the problems but it's a good place to start!

[@poppyflower9003]

It's so ironic because I miss the way things used to be while also being in a generation that used to criticize the boomers for not wanting to conform to new things. I'm starting to understand the boomers desires to slowly progress or not not change at all.

[@earthlingbron]

I was asking an older family friend about this and he was saying that he felt like nobody knows how to help eachother anymore. And it’s true. I’m 23 and life feels drastically different from when I was a teenager and a child, and of course I feel nostalgia for those times, but I know it’s something else. I was having coffee w another family friend and he said “young people today don’t know where to go, and I feel bad for them”. We are missing a sense of community And meaningful relationships

[@lisaproctor7276]

That's because America doesn't have Christ

[@D3LUSIONALD4RCY]

@@lisaproctor7276 america has literal cults in the middle states over jesus. i think extremism in christianity is one of the main problems with america actually, it's caused so much hate.

[@D3LUSIONALD4RCY]

i've always craved a sense of community and hated how individualistic my life has been thus far being raised in america. when i move out i plan on creating my own community and hopefully in the future i can raise happy children in said community, knowing they have a place they belong. i'm also 23 and you're right, life does feel completely different now from let's say, being in high school in like 2015/2016 where everything was still hopeful and happy. i wish i could help my friends but i can't do so until i am financially stable enough.

[@lisaproctor7276]

@@D3LUSIONALD4RCY That craving is for God. Seek God. Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life"

[@D3LUSIONALD4RCY]

@@lisaproctor7276 I was taken to many churches as a child against my will. I never enjoyed them, and I actually hated how fake and judgemental everybody was. That was not community. I was forced inside a box where I was just an extension of my parents and not my individual self. What I need is community, not God. I will find community and love without religion.

[@caleron6945]

Part of why I think things feel off now is because people used to believe in the future, and now we don't. I haven't been around for too long - I grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s - but back then I remember people talking about how the future held these great things and how we could be anything we wanted to be. The world felt full of possibilities and wonders. Now everyone seems to think that you'll need to struggle to get by and in the end it won't matter because A) things just keep getting worse, and B) global warming / conspiracies / whatever you believe in is going to destroy the world as we know it regardless. I don't know anyone that is looking forward to anything, or who believes that things are going to get better soon. I know many people that feel like we're heading towards some massive conflict with the powers and systems that run our world because the average person is becoming unable to live a good life. Maybe this helps explain why so many people in the comments say that they feel something looming but can't put a finger on it.

[@MatijaVuk-z9n]

I still hold hope for a better world, us growing as humans, becoming more empathic, connected, finding new ways to live, I wanna see what is going to happens, that's holding my will to live together.

[@johnlondon5516]

We are living through late stage capitalism. Bloated work weeks yet meaningless jobs that could well be automated in the near future. Rapidly growing wealth inequality. All the meaningful jobs pay nothing and all the meaningless jobs afford you a lifestyle that eviscerates meaning. We are also bombarded with negative news because negative news sells. I once clicked on a newspaper article that said "huge asteroid heading for eaetth" read it and it was just a piece about how we need better defense against asteroids in the future.

[@chelseaap]

@@johnlondon5516 wow. This is so deep.

[@200x-v4k]

@@johnlondon5516true

[@stuart6478]

choose the shitty life or the good life. it's up to you, and it wouldn't matter anyway because you're an npc.

[@Afreshstart-m5q]

For some reason I feel like there’s no excitement in life anymore. Like there’s nothing to look forward to. Everything just seems so trite and unoriginal. It’s like everything that needs to be done has already been done.

[@Sethdaknowledgeseeker]

It's the loss of originality of every aspect of life. We have become a cookie cutter society where we all think and act the same. And nobody is willing to be themselves. There is something deeper that we don't know about, and it doesn't sound good. 💯

[@nelsondenby]

I'm 25 and agree with this video. On paper, I have a good life, good job good friends, nice apartment etc... but I'm constantly battling this feeling that we aren't living life the way it was meant to be. I continually try to do things like taking breaks from social media, stopping buying random shit, eating healthy, etc etc. but I keep finding myself slipping back into what everyone does because EVERYONE does it. I do feel that there is hope for the future however as I talk to more and more people about this I think we all kind of know that what we do isn't making us happy... I think the pendulum will swing and people will get back to living simpler lives the way we were intended to live.

[@owengaul3226]

My friend that is the result of the alienation we have due to capitalism read Marx’s theory of alienation

[@robertclark9]

@@owengaul3226. The result of the alienation we have today is due to Karl Marx, not capitalism. Capitalism in its intended form is a tremendous system. However, crony capitalism has taken over, the system has been perverted to send all the money to the top, and the funds needed to sustain the apparatus of the system are not carried by the rich, but by the working class. What you see in America today is not capitalism. It is unbridled greed by the top one percent that control legislators, bureaucrats, and the economy in general. We have met the enemy, and he could be ours. But instead we turn our anger and frustration with the system against each other. We drink the Kool Aid of division, blame those who are not to blame, and become tribal, instead of practicing unity against a common enemy. The 99 percent all suffer the same folly every single day, as a DIRECT result of the mutation of capitalism through money in politics, rampant corruption in government (on BOTH” sides of the aisle, and our failure to bring victory through the only means possible. UNITY, against the true enemy.

[@jasonh.8754]

Try to revisit the great outdoors. Get your hands dirty. Do something physical, like build something. Grow and pick your own food. These are the things that we no longer understand. We cannot live in a virtual world.

[@pocket83squared]

@@robertclark9 The "crony capitalism" you're seeing is the inevitable result of market competition. Pure deregulation only works in Ayn Rand books. In real life, unrestrained competition causes a selection process, and the game ends up looking like a Monopoly board; there is no other possible outcome at extremis, and this has nothing to do with Marx. We ARE tribal, kid; it's in our nature, our evolutionary history. "UNITY against the true enemy" sounds precisely like "the Kool Aid of division" to me. Further, so does the false dichotomy you're creating between individualism and collectivism. Functionally, these two ideas are more like relative comparisons than actual systems. Think of them as being like up and down. They're theoretical ideals. No well-informed, rational person will endorse one of them to the other's exclusion. One more thing. We're only alienated insofar as we allow. Nobody is stopping us from: doing work that we find satisfying, contributing to ideals that we find worthy, engaging with interesting people, or from pursuing love and meaningful relationships. Estrangement is also a misleading comparison, now being promoted by all the imaginary images we see on social media. Lower expectations → increased happiness.

[@robertclark9]

@@yugecrazystick. Socialism doesn’t have to be done by the state, but it does have to be distributed by the state. If you call socialism throwing a bone to the less fortunate, which in turn becomes a way of life for many, to keep them from butchering their true enemies, yes I suppose. But that’s not socialism. That’s appeasement directed at self preservation, and the ability to continue gathering wealth.

[@wickedcitywoman]

It really does feel like something dark is looming. Days and nights just blend into each other now, and nothing feels real anymore.

[@blondie9422]

There is a weird eerie undertone! I’m so glad that other people feel it. I thought it was just me 😢

[@khadijah8269]

Exactly how I feel, like days and nights blend into each other

[@Augfordpdoggie]

Because life isnt real

[@khadijah8269]

@@Augfordpdoggie life is real, but time is becoming faster than before.. this was prophesized in my religion that towards the end of the world when innocent people will be harmed for no reason then time will pass faster.

[@imibee5184]

@@blondie9422 Not just you. And I thought it was just me. I just finished posting something about it and this the first video I see when I open the KZbin app.

[@apespc9886]

Really relate to this video. My husband and I are currently 29, and we were both talking about this a few months ago. Something started to feel a bit off in 2016/2017, but it has been much worse since COVID. There are two ways everything feels off, at least to me. The first is that our actions, our lives seem less REAL, less like they're actually happening or significant and more like we're all playing pretend in a big game. The next is that everything seems imbued with this hint of darkness, of evil.

[@sethjoseph8152]

Yes everywhere there is a facade. Everybody is fake now and I don’t even belong here most of the time. I feel like something sinister is behind the scenes and it’s coming closer, and it’s not looking bright.

[@MrRobertRue]

Since 2020 I feel empty and then depressed.

[@MrRobertRue]

And 2016 was a great year

[@katiemarie144]

i wish i didn’t relate to both of these things as much as i do 😭 that feeling of darkness & nothing being real is… too real.

[@nancylopez-alvarez3978]

Yes summer of 2016!

[@Cenkolino]

No joke. I have felt this since 2012 but it really started to sink-in in 2020. Something is going to happen that will change all of humanity forever. Be it for better or worse..

[@user-mb3dx5fl9f]

doesnt rly feel like things are getting any better tho.

[@ladacvijetic5494]

Yes 2012 things started changing

[@nicolen3146]

Everything feels shallow and I 100% blame social media. It’s more dystopian than most care to admit. I got off about 3 months ago and am loving it but there’s only so much that can change when most people around you are still engulfed in the virtual. I want people to start talking to each other and connecting again. That’s what it means to be human & the only real thing that makes life worthwhile in my opinion: our relationships, helping others & the connections we make.

[@monophthalmus3254]

I only use social media to look at hobbies, and it really changed things up for me. Algorithms actually promoted healthier content, and I never felt sucked in or I cannot put it down.

[@Liberal_From_Prairies689]

It’s not social media. It’s people who have just gotten stupider. People who think they don’t have to be accountable for anything. It’s a sense of arrogance and entitlement that has arisen, some say it’s the new generation, gen Z or the 2000s babies, but it’s more the generation before that has raised this generation to be so entitled and to not have to be accountable. It’s that attitude of “do whatever you want to get what you want” attitude, people think it’s a good attitude to have, to be so determined, to be so “driven”, but it’s not, it’s created an immense lack of accountable and responsibility and literally gave the new generation the approval to do whatever they want and this degradation of society we are seeing is the direct result.

[@kamikakushi_]

@@monophthalmus3254 Then, you're part of 'persona' that people in Bytedance (Tiktok) or Meta don't really target because you know how to maintain the information input. The other 'persona'? Not so much. They're heavily targeted by the algorithms because while they might appear as a younger generation, they don't understand how to maintain and control the amount of information that the apps tried to impose to them.

[@mikevogler5455]

@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 You blame the past Generation for the outcome of this current Generation, and their issues/problems, when it's actually society, the Government, the school systems, and anyone in control/in charge, that has created the problem/issue with the current Generation. If what you said were true, then there would not be parents showing up at school board meetings, protesting what is being taught to their children, and the constant brain washing and indoctrination that is occurring there. Everyone wants to blame the past Generation for everything, when it all happens within the Government and school systems, and then rolls down to the children. It is those wackos that are letting other sick minded people throw drag shows in schools... So no, parents are not passing on ignorant mess from the last Generation, it is the confused people in charge currently that is passing on, and letting garbage, be passed on...most of the time, without the authorization from/by their own parents.

[@Liberal_From_Prairies689]

@@mikevogler5455 an emphatic YES. Through the previous generation's, ie baby boomers for instance, and people born in 70s and early 80s, their mishandling of things, not taking care of environment for instance, not making good judgement calls, etc. Look at how the generation before those born in the late 80s and 90s and early 2000s, have been running things in government, who they've voted into positions of power, even how they reacted to COVID mandates and the entitlement and lack of accountability they've been instilling in their kids about the pandemic, promoting antivax nonsense, promoting antimask BS, look at how these Republicans born in the 50s 60s and 70s are behaving right now. Laws that go against gay rights, women's rights, etc, all the progress we've made is being slowly reversed. And all of this reflects not taking accountability, having an attitude of entitlement, not caring about other people, not taking responsibility, etc, stemming from how Trump ran America. His presidency and the boomers and the generation that voted for him and support him, and participate in riots and storming the Capitol, etc, people like that are causing this degradation of society and why so many are feeling this sense of doom on the horizon. And there's that do whatever you want to get what you want attitude promoted toward young people by older generations, so many of these factors have screwed up society for this generation and this generations' kids.

[@johnelmers3348]

A year since this video came out. Things are only getting worst as time moves on. War seems to be on the horizon everywhere. I'm Canadian and it just feels like the Western world is crumbling. Bit by bit everyday.

[@railfandepotproductions]

So what happens to other parts of the world?

[@toowat]

@@railfandepotproductionsdomino effect

[@jasintosamora5599]

All by design.

[@railfandepotproductions]

@@jasintosamora5599 what are you yapping about?

[@jasintosamora5599]

@@railfandepotproductions You'll soon see. I apologize didn't mean to wake you from your sleep.

[@guner7777]

What’s happening is that we lost our way as a society, and we know it. And now that the world we live in does not reflect us anymore, we feel uncomfortable. We cringe at beautiful things, at love, we have become cynical and numb by the countless atrocities we hear and see on the internet and in the media. We are disconnected from ourselves. I totally relate to this feeling and I am extremely privileged, self conscious, and I have nothing to complain about, yet I know I have lost myself in the last 10 years that I lived, through a screen for most of my awake time. My attention span is so low I cannot delve deep into anything. I’m too impatient to start a 2h film yet I will find myself scrolling through countless apps for 3 hours instead. What changed is mostly what we do of our time. We know we’re wasting it all away while the world is crumbling down and needs us to act, to change, to be the best version of ourselves to face the challenges ahead. Yet here we are. Procrastinating, in fear, powerless, in denial. Completely connected, yet totally disconnected.

[@chloeholtby]

Put perfectly

[@unkono]

100 percent true

[@ambiancesounds151]

yup meanwhile, the ones who want selfish power and greed are being voted away to the top… a shame

[@shaikrehanaparveen8862]

Perfectly put. I feel like we are so used to staring at screen all day that we dont take any kind of responsibility over the society anymore. We just want to keep getting entertained by this black rectangle

[@ariasa4]

yes, it’s shocking that we cringe to love

[@slightlydiluted]

I honestly started to think something was wrong with me. But here’s a video and a bunch of people commenting exactly how I’ve felt for a while now. Great video.

[@skyguy1988]

there's nothing wrong with you. there is something wrong with society and the world ok? it's changed DRASTICALLY. and I don't think there is "going back" to ANYTHING like it was...

[@michaelc3656]

I'm 36 now and I can definitely see what you mean. I think the change occurred between 2004-2007, where Facebook, KZbin, and the first iPhone came out. That was the turning point in my opinion. However, since covid, the change has been accelerated. I also remember, as a child in the 90's and early 00's, my parents would encourage me to save for a house. I still don't have a house and don't foresee ever affording one, and my parents have also given up on that dream. It was easier for them to get a house when they did, and even they've understood that those times have passed. I see people of all ages, all races, all backgrounds, noticing that the world is not right. It's not a nice feeling. To everyone out there struggling: You're not alone. I see you. We all see you. Just do the best that you can do.

[@Father_Daniel]

We're the same age and I couldn't have said it any better!

[@combozzz]

Same opinion here...Smartphones (since 1st IPhone) and social media has changed the world (and not for the better). Now we're dealing with the age of post truth, like nothing has the reliability for us to believe is true. Fake news are now a part of our everyday life. And money... f*k this sh*t. How can it be concentrated in the hands of a very few. The thing is... human race is realizing the world is not right even through our instinct and we can't seem to have an answer for these problems.

[@TheBeeWolf]

Buying a home is very intimidating when it comes to the expenses and upkeep. It's what kept me from buying one until I turned 30. I realized that I was paying almost $1k/month in rent when I could go out and buy a comfortable home with a $700 mortgage payment. Bought a home warranty for $500 a year and don't worry about anything major breaking while saving money from renting. Just wait for the housing market crash, homie. You will be able to afford one with the money in your back pocket. The band aid is almost ripped off.

[@icantgivecredit871]

You are totally correct about smartphones and social media dramatically affecting our society (beginning 2007); however, I think that the uneasiness people are feeling right now has come from two VERY recent things: the pandemic, and the looming 2024 U.S. Presidential race (whether or not you're an American). This hyperactive, reactionary sort of behavior from people who might not otherwise had cared about politics (or the internet, for that matter) is unprecedented and was brought on by the mid-late 2010s. The entire field has become increasingly toxic ever since.

[@irvingarturo]

I was very happy in those 90's and early 2000's. Our world became too visual, narcissistic and greedy. Nobody cares about each other. I'm also 36.

[@purgatorysystem2126]

Nothing has inherently improved from my life in 2019 than it did in 2022, but my entire perception of society and myself has changed. I don't have faith in institutions anymore, I'm not convinced people want to see change for the better, and I feel like society benefits from me dissociating from the emotional turmoil that results out of living in an incredibly unsafe world that doesn't care who bleeds.

[@lowccperformance4059]

I agree 100% it’s so sad and I think most of us feel that way

[@paulblart3464]

Well said

[@grandmalovesmebest]

Oh, VERY well said.

[@brianosterman456]

Honestly you benefit yourself from disconnecting from others emotional turmoil. That doesn't mean be cold, but it means learning to let he negativity and sadness of others not ruin your day. In doing so you maintain a healthier state of mind, and can actually better help those who need help. Maintaining a state of fear, sadness, anxiety, etc. can only be bad for you.

[@lafeil]

I can blame you how feel, we all own groups fight each over stuff not really helping world.

[@avacadotoast5492]

I got rid of social media years ago and it made such a huge positive impact on my life. But it gives me such anxiety when I'm out enjoying myself and people post pictures of me without me knowing online. I tried to get away from it all but it makes me upset when people can't respect my boundaries and wishes to be private. Recently my mother in law posted literally the most unflattering picture of me in a bikini while gonna trip with them. It's funny because I'm fit and pretty confident in my body. But it was the fact that a picture if me in a bikini was put on the internet without my consent or knowledge. It just gave me anxiety and I hated how my spine looked because of my scoliosis. I just want to live freely and enjoy life without peoples phone cameras documenting EVERYTHING.

[@darrenoconnell9716]

I know EXACTLY how you feel. I recently got together with family and one uncle loves to take pictures and post them online. I don't even let him take pictures of me any more because he doesn't respect my wishes. He gets upset bc he wants the "memories " It's such a bad feeling

[@robertmarley8852]

I'm an injun and I feel the same way

[@sloaiza81]

move to the country, far away from the city.

[@rollingwave2732]

Well said.

[@clairet5636]

My parents sent me a Christmas card with a photo of myself in my pajamas short shorts (I don’t dress like that in public) holding my newborn and it was too late they already sent it to everybody.

[@jayvee4787]

We all just need to unplug, get rid of communications with people halfway across the globe, whom we will never meet. What is happening, is that the number of atrocities is minuscule in our immediate daily lives, but the accessibility of global incidents has instilled a fear amongst people. Simplify your life, focus on your local community, and get rid of “Global association to your local life.”

[@marytermini1381]

You're definitely not alone in the way you feel. I grew up in the 70's and 80's. I graduated college in the early 90's. Everything feels like something out of the Twilight Zone now.

[@nl212ep]

I’m 49. I have the thought that everything has changed all the time. I’m a high school teacher, so it’s in my face every day. Not just a feeling. It’s a reality.

[@005Amergin]

Yep Gen✖️here.. feels like things are shifting like walking through a hall of mirrors and trying to find the exit... I'm keeping things very simple these days and finding nature is a good place to recalibrate 🙏🏼🥀🇨🇦

[@1timeslime971]

Same here…graduated high school in 1982….somethings most def. feels off now

[@NOCHANCEMOVIE]

I say this every day.... twilight zone

[@bossgrammyify]

I had that same thought the other day, it is a curse to have lived 77 years and have always known that something is wrong with society and what we believe

[@garyevans3051]

Im 66 and our society has literally changed overnight. I think back when I was 6 and I was literally outside ALL the time. Playing with friends, interacting with nature but simply playing with other kids. Never watched much TV. Much more human interaction. Our parents which were the Great Generation had the ability to buy a house, buy a car, send their kids to college all on the fathers salary. Mom could stay home and take care of the kids. Thats not possible today. Our personal friends have shrunk and as family units we are less stable. Thats what has happened. Most of us feel no hope…..I am too old to change the world. Hope some of you younger people will. Good Luck

[@caribbean9829]

I am 41 with a 18 months baby. Your words make me feel nostalgic and sad. I am very lucky to be stay at home mom and I take my son outside everyday. I know how important it is.

[@garyevans3051]

@@caribbean9829 my hope and prayer is that you and your family will change the world and bring it back to a sustainable world. Reading the Bible there is example after example of people seeing the errors of their fathers and mothers then returning to God and God in turn blessing them and their labors. Dont want to come off as a religious zealot but reading the Bible its part of History, literally His Story about our people turning away from God and reaping the worldwind. God bless you and your family

[@caribbean9829]

@@garyevans3051 I have been having in my heart the call of moving to a country side and we can do it since my husband can work from home. I think that will also help us. I am an agnostic person, but I believe the bible is a historical book. Thank you so much for your good thoughts for us.

[@Noncreativevampir]

That sounds like a fun childhood, it seems like the world really has changed, I know not everyone was happy back then but things seem simpler 10-20 years ago. I'm 16 and I rarely go outside because my neighborhoods dangerous and I can't go out alone, I'm usually alone at home and my family's pretty broken and Ive been feeling sad about it all but I still have hope

[@hollyanne4856]

most Mum sand dads now both need to work.. some have double and triple jobs and still reply on gov money to survive, paying for cilcare, double taxation, its horrofic.

[@papa_glyde]

I'm 22 years old and I feel like a completely new person after the lockdown. I lost the motivation to strive harder in school, doing less in enhancing my hobbies, and just overall feel dread and weary everyday. While it is really sad to say, it is good to know that I am not the only one who feels the changes in the current situation of the world.

[@GodspeedProductionsStopMotions]

You might just be anxious and depressed. As most are a bit. Wveryone just needs to lighten up and get back together in person

[@MetropolitanBitch]

I'm 19 and feel the same as you. I lost my motivation in learning languages and my hobbies. Things aren't work out the same anymore. Whenever I let myself start to do them, I would feel empty, no excitement, just feel lost in motivation and feeling. I don't feel mindful in everything I do, completely uneasy feeling and just different. I told my friends if they felt this or no, but I didn't find the same answer relating to what I've been feeling after pandemic. Sickening yes, but completely wondering with the fact I always feel time is going so fast and I lost sense basically in every aspect of my life

[@kelissanieves]

I'm 21 and I shake off the feeling that we won't make it to 30

[@zayytesla]

Use it as encouragement understand you’re the only person who can change u

[@kitcat2449]

Burnout?

[@Collinsara876]

I deleted social media 3 months ago and I can’t describe how I feel, but I would say that I feel: peace, I feel real again, do it guys, at least for a little bit, you have no idea how beautiful I see life now, it just feels real again❤❤❤❤I am happier than ever and I hope you find peace as well❤

[@Jumbolub]

Really?

[@Collinsara876]

@@Jumbolub yes, I can describe the feeling with one word: peace

[@Jumbolub]

@@Collinsara876 Ha everything back to normal

[@Collinsara876]

@@Jumbolub yes I recommend to you to do it

[@SheepSociety]

Yet you are here

[@thebookishkhmerican4303]

I share the same feeling. I am 29 and I feel like the world has changed so much. I noticed everyone is disconnected from each other and there’s no longer any respect or tolerance for each other. No one likes to communicate in person anymore and everyone does things only for money rather than for purpose and meaning. We also have a loneliness epidemic and public health and education is not prioritized or funded

[@erlinsbach]

We should really do things for purpose and meaning! So true!

[@anacatarinappalmadantas2715]

I share the same feeling and thought

[@samuelguerrero4114]

The changes are occuring due to the new way of thinking that the goverments have been bombarding us through the media all the time.

[@redeye9762]

Well then your not smart if you can’t see the blatant wanting to feel special and wanting to feel like they matter I mean just read the comment they are saying that everything is falling apart and that something wicked is coming when in fact nothing like that is going to happen it’s just people who have had unimportant life’s trying to think something big is coming to think that they matter for proof look at the people saying there age on here

[@krash6951]

That’s not true thats majority of the people but theres still good people. You have to surround yourself with those people.

[@nelixsulu6201]

I have this overwhelming feeling of the world running out of time for something

[@johnlondon5516]

It really is just the anxiety of constantly being connected.

[@kkkbbb1621]

@@johnlondon5516How do you mean

[@APsGTG]

Paradis Island is running out of time to use the Rumbling

[@slapmyfunkybass]

Maybe we should, maybe society is so broken we need a reset.

[@healthiswealth1452]

It's definitely peaked

[@jonnymcadams6209]

I was born in 89 and think about this a lot. I ask my friends who are in their 40s and 50s if the 90s and early 00s were actually a happier time, or if it was just my child perspective. They all agree that it was a happier time as well. The overall mood of the world was just more fun and light-hearted. I believe it started to shift after 9/11.

[@jimmyschmidt14]

were actually a happier time

[@XMcBainXUSA]

"Mission accomplished"

[@ayannahendricks6266]

MI can agree definitely 9/11 began a seismic shift. I’m in my 40s and remember thinking “I wish I was a teen in the 70s” even when I was enjoying some of the best times in my life during the 90s. One of biggest losses is a general magic about the world that has definitely been eroded by the smart phone. As I type to you on my smart phone.

[@mau345]

Westerners wont acknowledge it but your 80s to 90s were happy times because western powers dominated- they bullied things according to their wants and amassed enormous wealth and consequently advanced technologies and weaponry to a point they could spoil their citizens. Globalization came in and your old spoiling greedy tyrants didnt actually care if their peasants and managers were white yellow brown or black- but the colored ones are cheaper and more submissive and so they were better- and so the western citizenry start to cry foul why their lives are getting harder its because they assumed their masters were supposed to serve them unconditionally.

[@thethinkingmansgame5050]

Just look at the commercials and TV shows in that time

[@Revculter]

I'm 28, and I'm nearing the end of my rope. I don't like my job, I'm poor, I have no motivation to find a better job because it feels ultimately pointless. I don't want to spend my life working and stressing. I just want to enjoy my life, and I haven't for over a decade. I need something, I'm desperate. I don't know how much longer I can keep this going.

[@damjanhorvat9369]

sorry to hear that,hope your doing better now.I would like for your benefit that you smile😊 more ,listen music,take some walks ,or whatever you enoy doing.Do something with positive vibes and block negative as much as you can,Your power is in your focus,good luck❤

[@Oppenheimer-gq2wn]

If God really exist then please bless @revculter give him something meaningful, exciting, adventures.... Just bless him God 🙏

[@iTzCHIZE]

Research other countries to live in. Pick up and go live in a place that better fits the way you want to live. No place is perfect, but there are a lot of places who don’t just live to work and want to enjoy their life.

[@Sixus1Media]

My adopted father was born in 1919. His father was in ww1. I am 48 and didn’t have indoor plumbing until age 11. Half my childhood, I was raised very much in the manner of a depression era farm, and with the stories of those times. The perspective from this is bizarre. I often feel like some kind of time traveler for it. The world feels very very strange today, I’m some good ways, but many bad. If you are lucky enough to have grandparents alive, who remember, treasure that and listen to them as long as you can.

[@blackworld0462]

It has something to do with 2012, the end of the world actually happened but I don't know how we survived, but we are defently in another dimension! That's all I can say, I don't know why or how

[@SabertoothedTiger69]

@@blackworld0462 I don't do conspiracy theories but I'm starting to believe this because it really does feel like a sudden left turn off a cliff

[@lisapoole5420]

Man, I was born in 1970 and so lucky I heard all the old stories. I thought the old chores were fun! Hanging laundry out back was my favorite. I think we may get knocked back to those times- at least for a little while. I hope so.

[@lisapoole5420]

@@blackworld0462 A big turn happened at that time imo.

[@mustangsally5051]

I am nearing my 70's...growing up we did not have plumbing in the house,no electricity, we slept on straw mattresses, I was totally happy if I'm to think of then and now..I remember the farmer would let me bring a pitcher and we got fresh warm raw milk,.we had hens for eggs, we had this man who would come with fish , that's when my mom taught me to look for good fish and the not good ones..,since my mom worked,she didn't make her bread so the bread was delivered by a man...we had electricity in early 60's..I was young but knew how to go get water from the well and how to use the washing machine with rollers to take water out...clothes were dried outside...in winter I would bring the clothes to dry upstairs...life was very slow..simple...I listened to the birds..the cows outside....I would go back to those times just for how easy people we had around..so much is different, people had 12 to 20 children but everyone had farms so they all had plenty of meat and gardens..,

[@stevensenator4804]

I feel like a lot of people have lost touch with reality. Even worse, many people are actively trying to shield themselves from reality. This has been aided and abetted by social media. I also feel like there are powerful forces trying to nudge us in a direction that will just make us all more miserable. Things that have always worked now seem to be gradually failing. We are going in the wrong direction but most people lack the courage to call it out. This has contributed to a sense of impending doom that seems to be more acute than anything I've experienced in my 50+ years.

[@pubuapubua]

Bam.

[@VanishingNomad]

Exactly!

[@jshdhsjsheh377]

Let's turn to God! He will direct our way if we put our trust in Him. I know, what a weird sentence. It is so hard to trust in God after seeing everything around us. But this all is happening because almost nobody is putting their trust in God. Nobody is following God's ways of being selfless, humble and true. We have no joy and feel imprisoned and this feeling is growing. In the Bible in the book of revelation (Now nobody should read some sentences of the Bible because it has changed too, we should lean on God Himself alone) It says that in the end times, knowledge will increase all around the world. And indeed, it has increased through the internet. The book of Revelation also says that in the end times, one world order will be established, and it's already started being established through the internet! People are starting to speak only in one language, they're starting to have only one religion because all religions are slowly being integrated into one. The world is becoming under one government only. God said in the Bible that He would send famine around the Earth of hearing the word of God in the end times. The word of God includes the basic commandments. These commandments are: "We should love God with all our heart, soul and mind (because He first loved us, but we don't love God because of how prideful we are. We think that we know our life better than God!), We should love our neighbours as we love ourselves (but nobody ever truly cares about one another, everybody is now focused on themselves and how to 'feel' better), We should not make any idols (yet we lean towards earthly things to make us feel better, such as meditation, religion or music, but in the end we don't feel better inside at all), We should honor our father and mother (but look at the world today, we think that by hearing the advice of our parents wouldn't be good out of pride, and do we appreciate how much they've done for us?), We should not take the name of the Lord in vain (the most popular phrase is omg, and people have no reason to say it. We don't have a reason to say many things, such as to curse, yet we do it anyway because we get accustomed to chaos. And by taking the Lord's name in vain, we decrease the Lord's name's value, and then we take God as a joke), We need to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy (but nobody is at rest on the seventh day of the week, everybody is busy all the time and we overwork ourselves getting tired all the time thinking that we can handle it but our bodies are failing, Christians simply go to churches but their praises to God aren't genuine), We should not kill (but if we even "hate" somebody, we are already committing murder in our hearts because that's what we truly desire when we hate someone, to make him disappear), We should not steal (or even desire something from somebody and just be content with what we have because if we do desire it, we want to steal it in our hearts), We should not bear false testimony against our neighbour (but we are already putting up a false image and show it to everybody! We are already showing ourselves as we are "the best" and that's a fake version, yet we're still unhappy), We should not commit adultery (but we look unto others very sexually and this is destroying ourselves. We are of more value than that!) Don't you see that keeping these commandments leads towards being truly satisfied? Don't you see that by disobeying them, we become miserable? The Bible also says that in the end times, it would be as it was in the days of Noah. The days of Noah were filled with people who were violent, sexually immoral, and unwise. Violence is increasing every day in schools, in our hearts too by hating people, sexual immorality is increasing too because everybody sees porn more than anything on the internet, and people are making up their own sexualities. And people don't value knowledge anymore, we see that most of them lead towards what "other people will say" and what the trend is, but God has given us the ability to do much better than that. Every day we feel lonelier, and lonelier, and the word of God says in the first book of Genesis: "Man should NOT be alone!" Can't we see that we are heading towards destruction? We can see that 50 years ago, the world was so much livelier and lovelier even though it was still wicked, but not more wicked than it is now. But look at the world today. Nobody ever advises us to do these things in their way. Nobody ever wants to do these things anymore but is the world really becoming better this way? It's becoming worse and worse by the second even though in appearance, it seems as if it's becoming better but we all know it's not. The end times are what are near, that's what we are waiting for. The end is coming near and we should really hear the gentle voice of God that is nudging us to turn back to Him. He is our creator, He knows all of our weaknesses, our mistakes, our desires and every single cell that we are made of. We are the ones who have ran away from God thinking that He hates us, but He loves us more than even our own mother loves us! We run away from God, not the other way arround. As long as we're still alive, God is being patient and loving towards us, it's time we turn our hearts back to Him and start obeying Him again. We need to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour because He is the One that never did such things, He is perfect, and therefore if we have Him as teacher, we can get the perfect advice from Him, even if at first it doesn't seem perfect. He died for us so our sins can go clean, if we just accept Him as Lord and Saviour. That's all we need to do to finally feel free and whole. We will have joy and be promised eternal life that nobody has ever seen before. Talk to Him. You don't even need to be in the right state of mind to talk to him. Even if you're angry with God or even if you hate Him and want to complain or simply feel like He hates you, just talk to Him. Even if you don't believe He exists, there must be some slight curiosity inside of you to genuinely express yourself to Him. It doesn't matter how you feel, all He wants from you is to talk to Him. Pray to Him with a genuine heart, tell Him exactly what you're feeling. Pray to the REAL God, the CREATOR of the whole universe and our FATHER who created us all. Just pray and express to Him. If all you do is hide your real self from everyone, even your own self, at least once in your life be real with God. Express yourself freely to Him and He will hear you.

[@jshdhsjsheh377]

Also, the Euphrates river has bee starting to dry up in the past decade. In the book of Revelation, the Bible says that when the Euphrates river is fully dried up, 1/3 of the human population will die and 4 beasts will be unleashed on the Earth.

[@antonello_San]

I mean, capitalism is slowly reaching its end, life is becoming more and more expensive, the gap between rich and poor is expanding, strikes, protests, wars and revolution will only increase in number, we're becoming more divided, people hide in a virtual world (in media or videogames, in the sense of an exaggerated use of it and a separation from reality) for avoid facing all the bullshits that surrounds us. We need to find ourselves again, to recreate a collective of humans, fuck the divisive religions, fuck the greedy money maker, fuck the wars, fuck the fights, we need to listen and talk, to have full conversations, but they keep shutting everyone down distracting us like kids We really need to wake up.

[@kevintucker3354]

I’m reading these comments and I literally feel relieved!! All of you found this random video labeled with a thought that we all have. There is enough of us out there to remember and make changes in our own households and neighborhoods and that’s a beautiful thing to me.

[@aboutplanes]

Absolutely agreee!

[@dianejensen3420]

Great comment!

[@robbieskids9159]

What changes would you make

[@wintershock]

I’m also relieved. I’m working to make changes around me. It’s hard when you have to balance school, life and work but I’m trying.

[@aboutplanes]

@@wintershock ur good bro, it will all come one day

[@tribalvision_dk]

I miss feeling part of a group. I miss the basic values in our world about what is right and wrong.. I find it sad the way people make money on cheating others instead of providing value. . I would like to see a world where we smile to each other and contribute in making the world a better place, day by day.. a world where selfishness doesn’t win

[@AmateurHour1111]

YES DUDE! I am 30 years old. Born in 1992. I’m two years older than you. And I do feel like everything has changed. I’m alone often and so sometimes I go drive at night and I swear I can feel it in the air. Less people are out on the roads. Things seem eerie. I was thinking last night while I was out ‘where is everybody’? Just driving around in a Saturday night at 8:30pm felt apocalyptic to me. And socially things are different. It’s hard to express yourself without judgment or some kind of minor persecution. Idk man. Maybe it’s because we were little in the past and things felt magical naturally. But things really do feel off.

[@Dzanarika1]

Omg, you took the words out of my mouth, literally!!! I am plesantly surprised though.

[@anna-ro1jo]

I feel like you cannot be respectably honest without there being a firing squad ready to strike at your words. I feel the eeriness. I have become more cynical and I am trying my best to come out of it. Fake entitlement has become king of the world. If you are polite or grateful or show natural kindness to a person or a situation, people pick those qualities apart. It's extremely difficult to engage with people without being torn apart. It's becoming scary for me.

[@Coastingthroughthecosmos]

I was born in 1995 and I agree. However, I don’t believe that things only seemed much better back then just because we were little, It really was true. I remember it being almost impossible to not make new friends. Whenever my family and I would go out anywhere, whether it be the beach, a community event or a vacation, new and lasting friendships were made. For my entire childhood I remember having all the neighborhood kids (from all walks of life) over and going over their houses as well. Now, it’s hard to even receive eye contact from another parent at the park. Not having social media (or not being very active on it) is seemingly a red flag to most new people I meet. Up until like 15 years ago, Adults, parents, whoever you were in the world, it was not hard to find at least a few people to converse or exchange pleasantries with at any given place. People made eye contact & didn’t have a smartphone to stare at. There were so many people to look up to as a child. Being an adult seemed AWESOME. Now? There’s literally nothing to look forward to… at any age. The majority of people in our society idolize and worship YOUTH. Physical signs of aging are avoided at all costs. It’s abnormal to accept our flaws & imperfections and age naturally. Today, I believe no one wants to be an adult.. especially children. The majority of them look at their parents and think ‘oh fuck, is that what my life is going to be like?’ Or they are completely peer oriented and wish their parents didn’t exist. Half of them wonder why they are even born as their parents completely ignore them to scroll on their phone and dissociate for hours. At the same time, children are exposed to so much at such a young age, they do end up growing up incredibly fast mentally and emotionally. With the majority of our hopes, dreams, & everything we were promised being flushed away & our attention constantly being directed towards negative information, how are any of us supposed to feel today? Especially the kids? I think the ultimate difference between back then & now is hope for the future.

[@clairet5636]

I get that “where is everybody?” feeling a lot while out in public. Going to stores, going to the mall, to the movie theatre. The internet has changed the world and I don’t really think it’s for the better.

[@Maria7Maria]

Hey, 29 year old here and I feel the same way. I’m also alone a lot and drive most if not every day - I too had the experience of driving around and not seeing another soul after dark, only yesterday. It was so striking that I had a fleeting thought that I’m in a simulation 😅 but yeah, I have been thinking a lot too about the direction of the world and how we got to where we are now

[@cormacbowman6595]

I have worked at a retirement facility and have been fortunate enough to get to know people who lived through the Great Depression and WWII. One women who just passed was born in 1919. It is so special to hear their stories because there’s not all that many of them left. They are like talking history books. And they are so humble and grounded and wise. Such a beautiful generation, it has been so survival to be able to know them

[@timewa851]

had a neighbor who passed on Father's Day Morning this year, she had a story about France, she visited, then, she was given a stipend to stay one week longer than planned. Seems as though war was about to break out in Korea & the government had demanded all the aircraft repurposed to haul troops! She said she didn't mind visiting the Parisian museums & parks another seven days. : ) Rosemarie was 100. & 3/4.

[@cormacbowman6595]

@@timewa851 thank you for sharing!

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

“It had been so survival”?!

[@luqmang6624]

thats amazing, ive always wanted to have a experience like yours. theres so much knowledge for them to pass on and sometimes it never gets passed on. even just simple life advice from them can be very great.

[@omnifarious19]

One of my regrets is that I left my nursing home job a few months before Covid became a thing.

[@misskarinaleigh]

I feel like everyone is just existing. Stressed, rushed, constantly looking at their phone and just on auto-pilot. Lots going to jobs they don’t like to make money to be alive. I’m 36 and the last 5 years have just been crap. I have gratitude for what I have and although my job doesn’t pay the best, I like it and it gets me by (vet nurse). I feel like phones and the internet have swallowed us whole, we are addicted and don’t know how to stop. So many people are rude and inconsiderate. Where is this world going? I constantly yearn for my childhood in the 90’s and early 2000’s 😥

[@gmc9451]

I am becoming addicted to podcasts that seek to expose the torment we are being subjected to and I have become very intolerant towards anyone who does not hold the same views as I do.

[@mollyjames9534]

I used to feel that way too. I was very liberal for awhile and then incredibly right-winged, like I literally listened to Matt Walsh and Candace Owens all the time. After spending times in both perspectives, like man in those days like I just had so much anger and like hate towards other people, literal hate. I was mad everyday but like I came out of it and found that most people who I’ve met actually felt kind of in the middle too. It’s hard tho online with all the really extreme perspectives, people having no fear on here. But honestly I can’t tell you how freeing it can be to get out of it. I KNOW you can do it but not on ur own. For real, I honestly wouldn’t have thought to or been able to come out of my politics addiction had it not been for God. Like finally realizing he was actually there and actually cared when it felt like no one else did. internet addiction and isolation can leave a person (like me)with few contacts. But there is a warmth and a non-judgmental God who seriously wants to help you. I swear, he DOES LOVE YOU. He really does. And honestly when I actually gave him a chance, like it changed my life. I questioned Him, and I was willing to leave if this Christian thing wasn’t the truth. But honestly he answered my questions and didn’t hate me or get angered by them. He wants your questions, it’s ok to doubt. Like seriously. But man just if u haven’t given Him, or God like a real chance ever, maybe you should consider it? I could help you if you want any resources or prayers 😊. Look I know this world can feel really dark and it is a lot, not gonna lie. But he really is a hope in this world. He showed me that humanity still had some good in them or else why would he be trying to reach out to us and show us his love. He really can free you from all this anger or hate you may feel. He did for me, I know he can for you too. I just hope maybe you’ll give it some thought, just a little. I love you brother or fellow human. I wish you the best, I really hope things in your life get better. If you ever want me to pray for u or if you’d be okay with me doing that, Please let me know? I would be more than happy too. Take care -Molly J.

[@mollyjames9534]

@misskarinaleigh I'm sorry, I know it's easy to feel hopeless and like this world sucks. It is so difficult sometimes. Like I have days where it has been honestly, not gonna lie, pretty hard. Especially during pandemic. Like being super on my phone meant I really didn't have many friends or a lot of support and things got bad. I really felt like just consumed with fear and was just numb emotionally. But genuinely I found someone who has always like been there and I just never knew it. He genuinely came into my life and showed care for me, like in a way no one in the internet or even in my life could fully do. He understood me and I didnt even have to explain it. I know this world feels really dark and it can be really hard to cope with all the news we see and hear. But if there's anything I was able to learn from being a major internet-addict, it's that even when you feel angry, hurt,sad, isolate, or scared, there is someone always right beside you holding your hand who shares your concerns. He wants to listen to you. Whether you want to rant or cry or even scream, He IS there to listen. He really cares about you miss Karina Leigh. He knows your name and he loves you. Even if the world feels very gloomy and so dark and despairing, please know he wants to be there to shine a light and hope on you. We can only Bering light back to the world if people rediscover the light within them found in the one who gives us hope. This man literally gave everything out of love for humanity. One of the greatest things anyone can do for another is be willing to die for them to save their life. That takes love to do. Jesus died for you willingly just like that, with that love. He really loves you and I'm sensing I don't know how to describe it but I really feel him touching my heart with concern for you, wanting me to reach out to you. Your words stuck out to me. Karina Leigh, he really wants to reach out to you. I can't describe just how much he loves you and wants to show you that love. Have you ever considered God or if he loves you? Because if not I really hope you do consider it. Maybe just think about it even if that's not today. I hope it settles somewhere or that you remember that he will always love you. It's okay to question him, doubt is natural, healthy even. But I hope you know whenever you're ready even to just try, that he's there with open arms ready to receive you. I wish nothing but the best for you girl, With much love, Molly James P.S. Would it be alright if I prayed for you?

[@evanstroud]

Thanks for your work as a vet nurse. My dog, my best friend, just passed away suddenly and I am so appreciative of the nurses who worked to make her final hours comfortable. Your work is so valuable.

[@unwealthybarber]

Wow you took the words out of my mouth

[@Flooozeee]

I'm 34 and remember the 90's / early 2000's having a certain vibe to it. Leading up to 2020 things just got weirder and weirder and I can't quite put my finger on what it is.

[@thor2097]

Yes, I also feel like there has been some fundamental shift for the worse - like we passed some inflection point. On top of that, I have this additional feeling that there is a collective turning of the eye away from it, a willful attempt at ignoring it. That denial I feel is frankly more alarming to me than the shift itself, so thank you for being one of the people who is talking about this.

[@wyzebull]

Things get worse before they get better. It's always darkest before the dawn. Out of chaos comes order. When a new human experience is being birthed, it's traumatic and filled with uncertainty and outright terror. (Think of a child being born. Very traumatic) and you never know things are heading in the right direction until the chaos subsides.

[@Vonunov]

@Revolutionary Utena Not in a long time. I'm told that we always dream but the memory is selective. I wonder if this suggests some sort of trauma-avoidant suppression. Here's hoping my subconscious is just unremarkable.

[@MinecraftWillZoBoB]

Agreed

[@mippim8765]

.......the fermi's paradox says a species about to go exstict will not know it.

[@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062]

@@mippim8765 Makes sense, as a species knowing about its extinction would do anything to avoid it.

[@jackksterr]

I feel like life has changed for me since 2020…. It just doesn’t feel the same anymore. It’s as if I’m living this fever dream. People are meaner, more selfish, more arrogant, etc. I catch myself getting depressed or anxiety easily triggered by memories of the past before the pandemic hit. It’s harder to connect with genuine people bc people’s intentions these days is to use one another then discard when done. I miss when life was simple..

[@haraldschonknecht2974]

I think it started earlier, but it became more obvious in 2020. I wish you the best from my heart. Not all people are "cold", but it is harder to find genuine people.

[@josephquinn2881]

I feel the same, I had so many friends and good times , and a great dating life, sex life, everything . And now all I can focus on it how to pay my next bill , not sure what happened .

[@aarongaffney725]

Yeah come on that thing you're talking about data.it's like a narcissism epidemic. The darkest and most horrible sides of evil people have come out on full display come on no more shame more hiding. I think having trump in office for 4 years was a big push in this direction. Just give everyone the green light to be the most crappy people they possibly could andt still get away with it

[@dudejoe8390]

The world is experiencing Mass Psychosis.

[@jerusalem330]

Stock up on food and water . Make your peace with Jesus and learn how to prep emotionally

[@elisabetheverett9285]

I remember graduating high school in 2016 with such high expectations for what I was to encounter in the world. The years following tore me down hard. After a category 5 hurricane and COVID-19 pandemic I struggled through college and felt isolated and confused at the end. We are fed everyday with information overload, sprinkled with lies, and a slow death to curiosity and discovery. We all hold a universe in our hand in the form of a black box, but we are not God. No wonder we are an anxious burnt out generation.

[@cathlinejohnson1856]

Your last 3 sentences are point on. Very wise young lady.

[@29DPT]

Very burnt out

[@ashleyrodgers6048]

100% felt this in my soul

[@MyNameJeff00]

God is punishing your sins

[@ashleymckenna2808]

Imagine graduating in 2006 and then getting hit with the 2008 recession. This was what happened to me. I couldn't even get a job working at McDonald's because I was competing against people who had way more experience than me and had worked at way better jobs like insurance companies but because of the fucked up derivative loans they were giving out they made a killing and when it all came crumbling down those same people lost everything and I had to complete with them for minimal wage jobs

[@lessthanthreemetal]

Those of us born in the late 80s/early 90s have the most unique perspective on this. We were alive to experience life when technology/global security was just ramping up (pre-9/11), the transition in the 2000s into rapid development, the rise of social media, the economic collapse of 2008, the invention of the smartphone, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Every major global event has taken a part of life we took for granted and bled it dry. The world of today is so far removed from the 90s it's almost unfathomable - *everyone* is a resource to be bought and sold to the highest bidder

[@un.inspired]

Speaking as a 22 year old, things have changed drastically for young people and what is expected of them, university isn’t what it is, jobs aren’t what they were, family isn’t and friendship isn’t. People are kind of shut off, I think our society is changing and it’s changing us too, the way we feel about things and each other. It’s really scary and sad as a young person to feel so uncertain about why life feels so weird when my parents don’t claim to have felt this same way at my age. Weird.

[@richardjulien3345]

Exact same age, exact same thoughts

[@elvisvillalobos7355]

Ding ding ding …and I’m 20 LOL

[@432HzFlute]

I’m 23 and feel the same way man.

[@BibbyLV]

22 as well same feeling

[@juggman604]

25 same feeling

[@TheWinters814]

I'm 25- and this was so validating. It feels like I'm now accepting things have shifted since 2015-16 era and we're in a whole new and uncanny beast of a world- a world where every step forward seems like it's also a step back, and this hidden beast just keeps growing.

[@Dungeonsynth]

Time to read about the mark of the beast in the bible revelations. The antichrist will be revealed soon.

[@yygg9786]

Ever since 2016 i could never feel love toward anyone roo its so weird before that i would fall in love and have somany crushes on people its so weird

[@apexaffirmations]

Oh yeah, it's not just you

[@xennori1409]

@@yygg9786 I kinda feel bad for people in USA and how the culture there evolved. The culture in EU at least where i live is still the same as pre 2016.. We dont hunt each other and are not afraid to aproach women because.. There is nothing bad that can happen because of that.. Sure she might decline us or call us rude or whatever but thats bout it.. We can still say offensive jokes because people understand that a joke is a joke.. It feels like NA shifted into something i will never understand luckily.. People need to think about what they say out of fear.. People dont aproach women or show interest in women out of being labeled by one of many groups that fight each other and no matter what you do its always wrong in somones eyes. That being said i really dont know how regular people feel i only see sht on the youtube so that might not be the case for everyone or every state ofc.

[@floridawix]

that’s your prefrontal cortex!!

[@Mpiewizard]

I’m 27 and I remember having this feeling that something was drastically changing 10 years ago in high school. I still can’t fully explain where that feeling came from but it was there and it unfortunately has never gone away since. It’s only gotten worse and it terrifies me how many people seemingly either can’t see it or are in complete denial that something big is going to happen.

[@Afrodeiti]

since 2012 everything has felt different. I as an African American immigrant , 2012 was the beginning of the end. Since trayvone Martin shooting things have felt different. Since I phone 4s

[@maloriejohnson8373]

I habe this exact same feeling and have had it since around that same time. Sometimes I think it’s just anxiety over the chance of war/disaster, but it’s beyond just that.

[@AldousHuxley7]

Time is almost up. The feeling is your spirit telling you something is terribly wrong and to turn to God.

[@Afrodeiti]

@@AldousHuxley7 yeah I think these are the "End Times" the people of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) speak about, how ever I don't feel doom and separation. I feel something is different, it's the energy of the Earth that has shifted. Honestly speaking the iphones changed how we interact and communicate with the world. During those times the decade was shifting , new age has begun and it looks a lot like destruction. But what I believe it is is actually birth not destruction.the way humans think have readically changed in those 12 years. The concepts we can visualize is beyond what I fore father's imagined. The world is growing at an exponential rate. It'll wither liberate or crush us. I see people changing for the better, I see a lot of deaths but also a lot of births , a lot of new (old ) ideas centered around love and compassion. I see the youth of today preparing to be leaders no matter how mis guided their upbringings may have been. We see it with the great transfer of wealth happening now across the globe. Things are changing. It's neither good nor bad. The choice is us to us. Every end is a beginning!

[@deleted72636]

Jesus is coming soon. All creation and humanity is crying out.

[@RandomVariable007]

Even my hometown feels like a liminal space these days. Yes life gets dimmer as we get older, but I always felt something else. Something unnatural that makes everyone and everything distant. Life is no longer what it used to be.

[@jayalexander3356]

Yes, everything has changed. If young people your age are aware of it, imagine what it feels like for those of us who are much older. Its terrifying.

[@Curiositytaughtmethat]

At least you got to experience the better times I’m jealous

[@laurajane4541]

It’s terrorism. Started at 9/11. I am probably older than you if that’s at all interesting (born in 1965).

[@Tranquility32]

I am gen x. I am devastated with what I see happening and what I expect is coming. NEVER could I have imagined something so horrible. And I feel awful for the younger ones because they deserve so soooo much better. Wishing everyone well, and happiness and peace, wherever it can be found. Love to all. ♥️

[@bunsenn5064]

Yeah, and then during your time, some people came around who decided to put an economic system in place which prevented people from climbing the corporate ladder, and increased the wealth gap, leading to a bigger disparity of the working class and wealthy class. During this time, over half of the world’s natural resources got used up, and without being replaced. House prices have skyrocketed. College tuition has skyrocketed. While the minimum wage has doubled, the cost to live has quintupled. Your generation experienced, for the most part, an amazing and privileged lifestyle, but that came at the cost of the resources of future generations to come. Turns out, a pleasing existence comes at a long-term cost. I have nothing against you or anyone from your generation, but the world is becoming sparse because of what happened.

[@600joe]

America was better when it was more blue collared.

[@sooticablue1664]

I’m 50, female, one adult child. I’ve never seen the world like this. It feels like the end. I cry a lot about it because it’s so sad. It was never this way. It feels like it’s all over. I’ve never felt this way in my life but the last five years…. All I can say as someone who is older is find a balance between fighting back and really living every minute you can. Buying stuff, consuming, it won’t help you. Connect with people in real life, get outside, reject cashless society, reject automated services, reject AI. Don’t be going to concerts with hologram performers, get off internet dating and go and meet people in real life, get off Instagram, forget Dubai, forget growing your glutes… go and fall in love face to face, hug and hold each other. Sit under a tree, dig a hole in the sand… hold hands. it’s all there is. It really is. We’re on the Titanic and we’ve already hit the iceberg. It’s too sad.

[@АлександраЛ-т3х]

Pfft...

[@FrenchViking466]

​@@АлександраЛ-т3хTruth can be confronting.

[@charliedallachie3539]

I know the feeling

[@vedantraut327]

We are approaching a climax in human consciousness. A climax is both together, a creation and destruction.

[@Kareem-Ahmed]

Thank you for you great inspirational words.

[@jakeprice6659]

Being 35, the friendships of today vs the 90s feel empty and without purpose beyond having someone to send a text to. I miss the value and authenticity in having just a few close friends when I was a teenager. Emotions felt palpable whereas now they feel hollow and mostly void of any significance. Everyone is “connected” but only as status in one’s life.

[@someguy9778]

Technology has connected the world...But disconnected reality.

[@THXx1138]

Typically as we age we 'outgrow' many friendships as our values and priorities shift. We become less social.

[@Save_the_Stick_Shifts]

Same.

[@Cwgrlup]

If you think things have changed as a 35 year old, imagine how we feel as 58 year olds, before the cell phone, and as the internet literally came into existence. Life was really good growing up as a kid. It was wholesome and organic. People had conversations in person and telephones were a means to an end. Life was sentimental and we answered our doors without anxiety. Now there’s so much hostility instead of friendship and warmth. It’s like living on another planet.

[@rgn87654]

I'm 41, and it feels similar for me. I'm not sure if it's rose colored glasses or the truth. The 90's seemed like simpler times, not to sound corny, but for real.

[@sinfulpotato7804]

2019 is the last year life felt real.

[@themaestro5338]

I’m in my early 50’s and since 2016 things haven’t been the same. I’ve really got the intense feeling that something is just “off” lately. I can’t put my finger on it. My relationships with my wife and kids aren’t as good. None of them act the same anymore. I don’t act the same anymore. We all seem different. Our friends and extended family all seem different. Everything feels so weird. Like a glitch happened.

[@CreedM8]

It’s odd… I feel the same… like I have less connection to life

[@CR7R10DG19]

Covid

[@terrapinflyer273]

I feel the same way about my family. :/ Barely recognize them these days. People change, sure. But some of them have changed so much, and so fast... Their actions and reactions and complacency on certain very important happenings in the family... Like I'm living in a diff dimension all of a sudden. Or the "Darkest Timeline" story arc in the Community sitcom.

[@themaestro5338]

@@terrapinflyer273 yea, that’s a good way of putting it.

[@sonicistheway]

It really is since 2016. A pivotal election that year and things have only gotten stranger since

[@zanib9854]

I was thinking about this yesterday before I went to sleep, and now I see this video. People who grew up in the early 2000s can resonate with this video. I do not know if it was just me, but when I was younger, there was more peace and hope in the world. Now, as I grow older, the world feels restless and gloomy.

[@inspirice9844]

We're living in end times, cannot wait till Christ returns to reign for at least a thousand years.

[@hONeyBunZnSunNyFunZ]

@@inspirice9844 dude not everything is about christianity...

[@LuciaBrezianska]

I was born in 1992 and I feel exactly the same. For a long time I thought this is adulthood, but now i see its not.

[@Hartweizengriesspudding]

@@LuciaBrezianska i really hope you are right, i really hope adulthood isnt the reason for these feelings. for our sake

[@Rafael-pi4md]

Actually the world is getting better and theres enough data to prove that

[@sanfranplayz1191]

I’m 17, and I’m sure a lot of people similar to my age remember the innocence of childhood. For me, it was the period between 2010-2015 that felt organic. Most people would agree that something was brewing under the surface of reality but it feels like everything has fallen down in 3 years. I still fear that 2023-2024 has something to hide and we won’t know until it happens.

[@kobyin6522]

I am 19 and this is exactly how I feel somewhere in mid way its like I've lost all of my innocent purely happy days. I fear I will never felt the same again .Guess we will have to live with this "reality" now

[@sanfranplayz1191]

@@kobyin6522 It’s a sad truth to see how the world truly works. Gone are the days of childish memories and here now we face the fear of economic collapse, job loss, and just existential dread of what’s going to happen next. I often lose my faith in humanity when I hear some of the dumb $hit people do. Makes me feel like we’re doomed on this little blue ball. Gen Z especially just get offended so easily and embrace body positivity without looking at the bigger picture and are obsessed with apps like TikTok. No wonder the older generations look down on us. We don’t have much to show for ourselves.

[@eltwarg6388]

Let us wait for 15yrs old to tell us how world has changed within last 5 years in her objective analytical eyes. Kids, I am sorry, what is changing are You - do not be worry about that - it happens to everyone - should not be a problem if your parents have prepared you for this :)

[@lanceg2533]

@Eltwarg, everyone has feelings, and those feelings are valid. Part of the antisocial behavior happening today is the result of the Boomer generation not being validated as kids (adults wouldn't treat kids as autonomous, but rather like pets, shielding them from reality) and now we have 50-70 year olds acting irresponsibly due to deep seated trauma. @kobyin, focus on what is in your control and focus on your values and what is good for humanity. The new normal is what you create, and you achieve that by going out and experiencing the world, and learning from your successes and failures. Fear, isolation, dismissiveness, medication, and close-mindedness is not the answer.

[@aussiefox2000]

@@lanceg2533 Do not blame everything on the baby boomers. There has been plenty of time between them and now for other generations to change things. Blaming everything on one generation just makes it easy so no generation has to do anything to fix it. It's just lazy.

[@johnhalfhill1360]

I'm 54 years old, I remember a time when everyone got exited when Friday would come around. We would plan to go out to a sports bar have some beers etc..there was a rhythm and cadence to life back then. Companies used to have holiday bonuses and company parties.. Malls were full with massive Christmas displays and gift shops. To me the last good year was 2006 , 2007..that's when it all began to disappear...

[@northsidebrisbaneplumber7008]

Im a domestic maintenance plumber We were digging up a backyard last year and all of a sudden we heard this great commotion a few fences over, it was a bunch of boys throwing sticks at other kids hiding in a tree house, it was so strange because it took me back to my childhood, but at the same time I realised I hadn't heard anything similar to that in many years..

[@cbass2755]

Agree…children playing outside. The wonderful screams of delight while riding a bike, playing on a hill, running around in a playground. I miss those sounds….and when I hear them I cherish it…

[@harrymills2770]

@@cbass2755 It's still happening all over the place. Lots of people "get it." But they don't draw attention to themselves. They just quietly have their shit together and they're too busy fishing, camping, and sight-seeing with the kids to be wasting time fooling with cameras and posting on Facebook. The world you perceive through your phone or your tablet bears very little resemblance or relevance to the world immediately around you.

[@TruthIris]

@@harrymills2770 exactly, but that’s like a remanant of society. Most people are totally cut off from each other, and are cut off by tech. Many are even still working from home.

[@wcstrawberryfields8011]

Kids don't play outside anymore. Video Gaming has become normalized. No longer considered a vice or occasional indulgence.

[@Betty77168]

I can understand that feeling, it feels like kids don't exist anymore, you don't see them playing, or having fun, if you do see them they're walking around like zombies on their phones. Also, they all seem to dress in black now, no colour, no sun tans or sun bleached hair or freckles, just pasty and sad looking on the whole. I heard a child saying that she spent the whole summer holidays at home, all her friends were just on tiktok and sending messages or doing face time, not going outside or meeting up with each other. It feels like childhood as we used to know it has gone.

[@glengamble526]

A close friend and I just had this very conversation. The division between people and the disconnect with our neighbours is unnerving as hell. The world feels like it’s heading in a very, very bad direction.

[@brittalbach416]

we always thought we were a free, happy society and that we the idealistic positive people love one another. Since this plandemic I live in a state of traumatism. I see we are only as free as "they" let us be. Never knew we are surrounded by tyrannical politicians and mean people. And then you constantly read about younger people dying and so suddenly. But maybe we deserve it. In the West, unborn children have been getting killed for decades and it did not bother us enough, now death comes to us all

[@miapdx503]

We've been in a downward spiral, ever since we were brought low by an unregistered sex offender with a porn star wife.

[@brittalbach416]

@@miapdx503 who do you mean ?

[@miapdx503]

@@brittalbach416 seriously? Donald Trump has had a prolific career as a sexual predator. 20+ adult accusers and minors too. #justiceforKatie you know, the same guy who owned the Miss Teen Pageant and a Teen Modeling Agency...my that's a lot of interest in young girls. He's a degenerate. A disgusting, filthy pedophile and predator. I dare you to read the transcripts from his Child Rape case. His buddy Epstein was also named. She was *thirteen.* #justiceforKatie Read it. If you're going to support a predator at least do it with your eyes open. Or do the kkkult thing; 🙈🙊🙉

[@brittalbach416]

@@miapdx503 oh my goodness, I feel sorry for you. And Melania Trump was no porn star, you should be held accountable for slander and libel. President Trump is still risking his life for America but you rather side with the enemy who is going to destroy you. The tragedy is that we the people are the victims of fellow citizens like you

[@RedXLink]

I'm 30 right now. I read some of the comments on here and tbh it's scary. Really really scary. I used to be a game developer and I feel I at least can articulate a small piece of what's felt so off about this world. Well, at least in my eyes. To me the answer is progression. Namely the danger behind it. People are beginning to expect far too much far too quickly ( myself included ) Game developing jobs and their rising expectations are a great example of this. When I was in college for game dev at the time, I learned that just a couple years before I entered the school, game designers only needed to come up with great and fun gameplay experiences to qualify for a job. But, my training in the first year wasn't just to come up with great gameplay. Just a year later I was told now game designer's have to know how to operate in multiple game engines AND make great gameplay. The year after that now they have to do all that AND be able to map out the levels. This continued well into the time I had graduated to where I was expected as a game designer to know multiple game engines inside and out, the principles of how to make a game fun, how to build out the levels, how to code the ai, characters and all events AND have great personal skills in order to even have a chance at an interview. This is equivalent to making an entire game by Oneself instead of being part of a team. At this point I genuinely believe that humanities' speed of progression has far outclassed what we are capable of. It is going to destroy us if we do not work to regain control over the systems and the tools we've created. We need to severely lower our expectations and use these tools we've been given to progress at a much more stable and slow pace. This is happening in jobs everywhere, in all our projects, throughout social media and the like. In one way, shape, or another people are non stop raising the bar to where it cannot be sustained. Even worse, people are comparing themselves to these new absurd bars. Some people are even killing themselves over these unrealistic expectations and goals being set for them! It's causing widespread depression and even those who are mostly happy in the world are starting to feel it. We need to learn as a society to be grateful for what we have and to stop trying to clamor for more. Our greed and pointless + endless pursuit for progression is going to be the death of us. It will take away our humanity and turn US into the machines. I think this is what others are slowly starting to feel. Their humanity eroding away. Gatherings aren't as fun cause expectations take the fun out of them. People aren't fun cause you don't know if you can trust them to be there with you long term or if they actually care about you. Doing what you love isn't fun cause you don't know what or who you are doing it for anymore. And achieving anything isn't fun because there is always " something greater " to be achieved. It takes really hard work ( still going through it myself ) but we need to work hard to focus on what we have done for ourselves, experience nature more, and go back to letting life happen at a much slower pace.

[@rosemaryblazeby5045]

It all started with entitlement. What a clever little boy you are Johnny, even tho he failed dismally for the lack of even trying.if you Dont get what I am saying, no point me explaining. Just this about it and how all the unrealistic expectatitions start Then look lifes milestones Expectations Accountability Self set goals Self realization and or acceptance Ability or lack of Positive or negative attitude eyc6

[@bojananikolovska6028]

Most meaningful comment so far. I agree 100%

[@lahart2003]

Very well said kid!! I honestly believe you are correct. Societys expatiations are raising the bar to Hights people in just about every walk of life can't reach. Being an honest and true person with empathy and a general care about their fellow man is also struggling to be apart of this social structure. Most pretending to be someone else on FB and the like. Taking the real out of the way of life. It's just like watching a speeding train that's going to crash & you can't look away. Things have changed at lightning pace just since 1970-2023?! Totally understand exactly what you're talking about. The World Humanity is going the wrong way.

[@ficklefox2171]

Quit cappin, my dude. That is not how software design or more specifically game development works. I'm calling bullshit on your whole story about how the industry became more demanding in the time span that you were in college. I mean maybe there's a company out there that expects nonsense like that however I find it hard to believe they'd be viable considering that the rest of the industry has segmented roles for these things. It makes no sense to have everyone be cross-proficient in different specializations as it slows down the entire organization's workflow. not to mention it diminishes the overall end result. Having some cross proficiency in certain areas is absolutely necessary for particular roles, such as for example the Lead Technical Artist, as rather than just being the team lead of a bunch of 3D modelers he has to have a core understanding of the codebase and principles of the The rendering engine as well as the subjective principles and techniques of the art side. under him though on either side of the equation, I guarantee you that the software engineers and the 3D artists have very little cross-discipline. One might think that this cross-disciplinarism would hold true at a small startup - and it does to an extent - however then, they wouldn't be working in multiple engines and be expected to know multiple engines or this or that, they out of absolutely necessity would have carefully selected a particular engine for its pros and cons in the context of their project, and it's likely that even during their hiring process they would have narrowed the field down to those who would provide the most bang for the buck when it came to the tool sets that they would be using for their specific project which could take years and years. Yes being proficient across these subdivisions makes you more marketable, potentially, but it is certainly not expected, nor is it the norm in the industry by any means; everything you said is basically horseshit. I don't understand why people feel the need to fabricate these imaginary scenarios especially without having the subject matter knowledge to back it up in the first place. are you so lacking and self-esteem that this somehow makes you feel like you are an important cog in the landscape or something? not trying to be mean but I just think it's fucked up for people to basically make up a bunch of shit - incorrectly - and then put it out there as if it's truth.. if anything you're adding to the problem this video was created to discuss, because you muddy the waters with all your inaccurate bullshit portrayed as reality. those who are unfamiliar with the subject matter might just passingly assume that this is how things are and that misinformation gets at least initially or at a surface level lodged in their brain. but the problem is more and more of this stuff they encounter on the internet on all sorts of topics ends up just creating this giant riverbed of nonsensical bullshit that in the end becomes increasingly more exhausting to sift through to find the truth of just about anything. Fucking quit that shit, for real.

[@CozyGameCat]

@RedXLink Wow… what you said had so much wisdom. I agree completely. We are being destroyed as a species by our own creations. The greedy keep pushing and the rest of us are just accepting these nonsensical expectations. It makes me sick. This is spreading that wage gap and cycle Antonio spoke of with populist uprisings, etc.

[@fuunakan7318]

I hate 2020s so far We're gradually losing humanity by technology and the world situation.

[@cmw184]

This is the EXACT reason why we need to treasure our elders. Talk with them as much as you can, accociate with them, spend time with them, because i dont think, especially post internet, there will ever be such, organic, and honest people like that again. What i mean is, everyone wants everything, this second. Right now. But, if you were raised before the 90s, even the 80s, you probably spent a lot more TIME learning things. Social behavior, life skills, everything. Atter losing my grandmother this year, i realize, Time is important.

[@tesiemarie8942]

Yes!! Amen! This is so true!

[@steamnamebbderinvade__]

Kinda hard to do with entitled boomers; I guess by that logic, you would do the same for Gen X or the very few ww2 vets that still exist or rarer yet, silent generation.

[@cmw184]

@@steamnamebbderinvade__ yes

[@af2876]

What ?! Old people suck. I dont understand the whole respecting our elders thing, how about them respecting us, never ever have i walked up to an old person and judged and critizised them but i can even count how often they have done that to me. For all i care corona shoudve taking more of them, they shoudnt even be aloud to vote yet in my country they are the once who vote the most, as if it is about them. When we voted about corona restriction those gravewalkers fucked us up, sure opa does not care about the impact the restriction has on the workers, he has his rent and instead of just fucking staying home if he is so scared he has to fuck us who are already barely getting by just so he can go birdwatching or feed some ducks. This whole fiasco coudve been handeld so easy old people stay home so you do not die and let us go on with our lifes, or die. But i am so glad that we safed some elders and completly butchered our economy, leaving people with debts they will take forever to pay off and making the small buisness owner go bankrupt. Didnt like old people befofe the pandemic, dislike them even more after.

[@cmw184]

@@af2876 well, i tried to read that the best i could, but man, idk where the hell you live, but i havent had a single old person come up to me and judge me. Every single one has been supportive, and positive. And during covid, hell, they were the ones staying home the most... PLUS, theyre humans. Theyre people. Just because theyre old, dosent mean they all think the same smh. We all get old, we’ll be there some day. What im saying is, they have experience, in the world. Theyve seen a lot of different things, and if theyre not listened to, or we dont pay attention to what theyre saying, history repeats itself. Just like the video was saying, around every 70 years theres usually a big. conflict.

[@ep5005]

I’m 56, born in ‘66. Grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. Not only are things drastically changing, but it’s all intentional...and, it’s not good. I feel like I’m living in the Twilight Zone, a backwards world. We’re actually regressing in the name of progression.

[@SophiaLMitchell]

You said it! Very dystopian in my opinion.

[@amycraig3956]

Me, too. 56. I cannot help but to think of all the crazy stuff we did back in the day that has thoroughly contributed to the current madness. It was ominous that the book "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was our graduation year. We read it and chuckled how 'off' it was. God have mercy on us, our parents and our children. Dad was right! Everything is accelerating at such a pace. There has been no "real progress", just the same things in a more, harder, faster way. Like the boat in Willy Wonka.

[@dragonfly1430]

SAME! I just turned 57. Things have gone so backwards even from when I was raising my kids in the 90's! I also believe it is intentional. I saw an interview with Whitney Webb on the Glen Beck podcast. I highly recommend it.

[@ep5005]

@@dragonfly1430 Thank you, I’ll check it out.

[@juliebarks3195]

Me too. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I long for the nice times I once had. Before paddling in the sea was safe from vast amounts of sewage. A Sunday dinner without 233,000 microplastic beads in it. And a future to look forward to if only you work hard, what a joke.

[@CJBradley]

I'm 70 and can say for sure that the world and people has changed for the worse, there's a lot of hatred and manipulation going on that wasn't there when I was growing up. People take offense over nothing like they went phsyco which I find it quite disturbing. People were generally decent and kind but not anymore now they often seem to take pleasure in being mean and objectional.

[@PersonAccount-yz3cr]

I’ve noticed this aswell it’s awful a lot of them are like this now

[@penultimania4295]

I'm in my 30s and I feel like it wasn't like that when I was growing up. In my view this is a phenomenon of the last 10-15 years.

[@ozarkrefugee]

And people go out of their way to protest and be mad about things that should not even concern them.

[@jenica1388]

It’s the hopelessness of late stage capitalism

[@LordofFullmetal]

While your experience is totally valid, I'd be interested to hear what perspective that's from. Because I hear a lot of people talking this way. Not to rude: most of them are white. Most of them are straight, and a LOT of them are men. Because the reality is, a lot of facets of life nowadays are far better for anyone on the planet who doesn't fit into those categories. Life for women, poc, and the lbtq community SUCKED before, in a lot of ways. The only real difference was that people weren't raised to be aware of that; anyone lucky enough to be in a position of privilege was allowed to essentially ignore the fact that people were suffering. If you were a straight white man, you got to IGNORE the women being beaten by their husbands, and the people of colour being segregated, and the lgbtq people literally being unalived just for who they were. The difference is that now, you can't ignore it. Because the internet puts it right in front of you. We have access to way more information than we ever have before - and that's both a blessing and a curse. The world hasn't really changed. Humans haven't changed. You just HAVE to know about it, now.

[@chrysantus]

I feel so comforted that this page exists.

[@5133937]

_”When the last person who remembers the last Great War is dead, the next Great War becomes inevitable.”_ That’s probably also applicable to other things, like depressions and financial crises, etc. It’s all about memory.

[@fortheloveofnoise]

Memory is collective.

[@winstonsmasterplan]

And people want to edit the books now and tear down statues of the past because of the horror they portray. We will be the generation to know these horrors once more.

[@jollygrapefruit786]

So the whole worlds population died and a new population replaced it in the 21 year span between WW1 and WW2 according to whoever said that?

[@Jag-leaper]

Welcome to the fourth turning

[@5133937]

@@jollygrapefruit786 It doesn’t say the next Great War is impossible if people still remember the last one.

[@SteveVi0lence]

This is depressing... But I find solace in the fact that I'm not the only one that feels like things have been...off

[@sethjoseph8152]

My friend the world is in trouble 😢 only we can fight these pains and get through IT. ❤❤❤

[@LightOverDarkness21]

Thought I was the only one who felt this way.

[@carlosrios-lr2ld]

My luck turned for the worst in 2020,I will never be as happy as I was in 2019 I will just keep remembering those times