Robot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱

Maybe the saddest realization of the last six years is that most people don't seem to give a fuck about anyone when it comes down to anything important. They make excuses as to why things happen to other people and delude themselves into believing they are somehow impervious to ever having them happen to them. Everything from long covid to homelessness to assault to AI psychosis.

The number of people who look down their noses and say, "well that could never happen to me, so it's not my problem" blows my mind. It's like compassion and empathy died in most people a few years back.

Mar 21 at 2:58pmWeb
Show threadAudhdDespiteNoisyAbleism 🇨🇦3d ago

@RobotDiver Too many people don’t care anymore. I got Covid at the hospital where I had a second mastectomy in January for a second breast cancer because masks are not anymore required. I mentioned it of course and I got a BS answer.

But I pushed it anyway saying that going as a cancer patient in the day surgery department where too many staff members didn’t wear masks was not an ideal experience!!

Show threadUndeadMinotaur3d ago
@adelinej @RobotDiver It's important we keep speaking up!
Show threadNone Hitwonder3d ago

@RobotDiver I think numbing oneself to human misery is often used as a protective measure, and it's presented in our culture as one of the most acceptable options for self-preservation in order to stay upright enough to keep feeding the Misery Engine.

It is loathsome, and I have to work to separate my disgust at this from my view of many of the people who choose this path to survive something we're all being assaulted by every single day.

It's so frustrating when you do the work and see someone else who doesn't appear to be doing the work, but sometimes all we can do is our best and let that work be seen by the people around us.

Show threadhauch3d ago

@RobotDiver
This is not a recent development.
It has gotten worse for some people, but mostly just more visible.

I get the impression that many people confuse becoming aware of how society in general is and society becoming that way.

As if society was the way they imagined it, until they found out, that wasn't the case and therefore, society must have changed, not just their perception and image of it.

Show threadRobot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱3d ago

@hauchvonstaub

True. I think it has been more frustration of my naivety surrounding my world view which wasn't deeply naïve, but enough to still be shocked by people's behaviour. Especially ones I thought I knew

Show threadjmj3d ago
@RobotDiver @hauchvonstaub
I am sad about it as well.
I've said it before, we have forgotten how hard it was to build a society that wasn't "nasty, brutish and short" for a noticeable fraction of the population. For me it stems from anti-intellectualism and the destruction of a belief that things are discoverable and knowable. Largely from a death spiral feedback loop in the education system. But it could just be that technology induced change is moving too fast for people and society in general to keep up.
I think there is a natural rate of assimilable change connected to the rough generations of 20 or so years.
I've heard it said that anything invented before the age of 12 is normal and the way it's always been. Anything invented between 12-35 is the cool new thing that everyone should be using. And anything invented after the age of 35 is the spawn of the devil and will lead to the downfall of society.
I wonder if the recent rate of change has exceeded that natural adoption rate, if the normal vs cool things change several times in that 12-35 age then you lose you footing and sense of which way is up?
Hmm... calling history buff's/majors, is there a paper with a regression analysis of historical upheavals vs tech rate of change? But it's probably like global warming, everything before 1900 is flat, and everything after is a vertical line.