in thirty years i’m an old man at a family gathering and i say something that makes everyone gasp and go silent, and younger people hurry over to shush me up and then later they say quietly to each other ‘he’s just from another generation, in his time it was normal…’ — what will they be talking about?
… in his time people thought women were equal to men, and should have all the same rights, they even let women vote!
… in his time people thought it was okay to be gay, or even (whispers) trans!
… in his time you weren’t allowed to marry a girl until she was 18… i know, so arbitrary! she could have had 4 kids by then…
… in his time people were very concerned about ‘the environment’ and thought it mattered in some way
… in his time people thought it was okay to be any religion you wanted, or even (whispers) none!
… in his time people were very concerned about ‘privacy’, there were no cameras in people’s houses, and they even threw fits about cameras being in the streets!
… in his time everyone learned to read. i think he even (whispers) went to a university
it’s been a while since the future was bright
i miss it
Sad how true these things are becoming. Sad how the world is changing. Never thought I would see fringe MRA, that was made in conjunction to Feminism, become Manosphere and Red Pill. Never thought I would see social media warp liberal politics to neoliberal consumption.
Never thought I would see tradwives and like MGTOW and stuff. It is a social decline to some extent but then I suppose there are pockets of hope. I hate how net and social media has exarcebated the lack of reading, indulgence in being media and materially illiterate and also the pornification of intimacies.
The whole idea of blogging when we met back in 2010 was so popular. Microblogging was a niche and now it is the dominant form of discourse and knowledge dissemination. I have lived through some interesting times. And, so have you buddy =)
When doom-scrolling it is hard to find hope. Hard to see the people that are trying to make it a better world. They are there. I see the human race over all of our time on Earth, slowly moving forward, stumbling, falling on its face, getting back up again while continuing to move forward for a better world. Right now, we’ve fallen, on our face, in a ditch full of scummy water. But eventually we’ll pull ourselves out and continue down the road to a better world.
That, or the AI robots will take over. Who knows maybe they will be the ones to usher in a better world for humans.