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u/LatinWarlock13 6h ago
People got more sucked into social media. Young kid's brains rotted at an all time high. I think a lot of people developed mental health issues during the lockdown. And the rich got super rich while the middle class got more poor.
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u/aww-hell 6h ago
Too many people, young and old, aren’t cognitively developed enough to handle the advances in technology and social media. Too much information and sensationalized misinformation. Too much easily accessible confirmation bias. Too many institutions taking advantage of that for their own selfish benefits.
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u/Glass_Visits 5h ago
I think anyone really, no amount of cognitive power can offset the negatives of the dopamine slot machine.
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u/Cynical_Cyanide 1h ago
You know what's fucked up?
I 100% agree with you that loads of people developed mental health issues. Even if you don't go so far as to call the changes 'issues', it 100% changed people, virtually always in some negative fashion.
... And yet, bizarrely - I don't think I'd mind too badly if we had to do the staying at home thing all again. I'm not even sure I can explain why eloquently.
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u/Vinr_Odinn 7h ago
Incorrect.....it all started in 2016 at the Zoo.....
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u/-threefeetoffun 6h ago
I don't think the Cubs winning the World Series gets enough credit for its part in opening the gate to hell.
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u/Kimi_Antonelli_12 5h ago
It all started when Elon began his bad guy arch and called that tai cave rescuer a pedo. I swear we switched timelines.
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u/ShelfSpace 6h ago
What happened is a bunch of us lost their careers and their jobs, and the rest of us were labeled disposable. We weren’t given enough support to get through it without hoops. We got to witness first hand how little America cares about us or how much of its bold words were empty.
That hollow feeling is wisdom friend. It is always a burden
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u/MUCHO2000 1h ago
Totally agree.
With a lot of time on our hands we started to see how totally fucked we are as a society.
Propaganda works and social media algorithms turn it up to 11.
One thing that people don't talk about enough is a 2019 study showed 40% of Americans could not cover a $400 emergency expense using cash, savings, or a credit card paid off immediately. Then we had massive inflation and the vast majority did not get raises that kept up with inflation. By 2021 that figure had risen to 68% and now it's 63%.
That tension of not feeling secure as to your next rent or car payment combined with the social media algorithm feeding you propaganda is soul crushing.
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u/blackstarr1996 1h ago
They have stopped trying to sell us on the American dream. We are transitioning from late capitalism to technofeudalism.
The stock market is an AI bubble. If the AI fails it will wreck the economy. If it succeeds then they won’t need us anymore. Everyone sees this. No one is doing anything about it. We are careening into a dystopian nightmare.
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u/reecord2 17m ago
there's something to the first half of your comment, cause it's how I've felt too. I think COVID, the George Floyd protests, Jan 6th, brief actual inflation and then permanent price gouging under the guise of inflation, everything percolating in the air of that time, it was a harsh lesson that the govt, or anyone for that matter, is not going to protect us. Not to sound dramatic, but imo a real feeling settled in that no one is coming to save us.
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u/Dahns 5h ago
You know that feeling when you skipped class once, and you realize every classes now look skippable and there's no going back from it?
This is what happened. Everyone had all the time in the world, to fulfill themselves, to do their boddy, or even if it was boring, to realise how much time they were sacrifying at work. You can resume work now, but you know, now, how much you're giving up.
And there's no going back from it
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u/NotDoneBeforeNow 2h ago
Excuse my ignorance, but how much time did people generally have off work in your country? I'm in NZ, and we had a couple of glorious lockdowns, one of 4 weeks and then another that varied based on location. But all in all things went on as per usual as we didn't have the presence of covid in the country. I don't have the same feeling as OP but I've seen it oft repeated. I do wonder if it's a measure of aging where a stage of life was kinda missed because of the isolation. As in, the feelings around life being busy and less exciting could be a normal measure of aging, but with the gap in between making it feel like a step and not a slope it triggers an odd feeling for people?
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u/candymannequin 2h ago
i know i'm unlikely to get three months off of work, essentially paid vacation, again ever in my working lifetime
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u/Educational-Seaweed5 1h ago
I think they meant remote work. No longer blowing several hours a day commuting and prepping for work. Being able to use the bathroom and make a sandwich without having managers attack you.
Then being shoved back into it because real estate sociopaths weren’t getting their dividends on overpriced office rentals anymore.
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u/Vexed_Cactus41 2h ago
I haven’t noticed much difference since covid, but if there’s a collective explanation, it’s probably this. A lot of people got a year or so to work from home before getting clawed back the to the office. Perhaps that taste of the work-life balance made them realize how dissatisfied they are with commuting and being around annoying coworkers all day.
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u/j0a3k 1h ago
That was one experience. Mine was having an entire second caseload given on top of my normal work without any overtime because I was salaried.
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u/Educational-Seaweed5 2h ago
That’s because everything IS more disconnected, expensive, stressful, and rushed.
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u/Techiesarethebomb 6h ago
I can't put my finger on it, but maybe it's related to places like Taco Bell not having 99 cent options anymore.
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u/ALLCAPITAL 5h ago
Yes. WTF HAPPENED. Everyone is exhausted in the evenings. We talk past each other. Living a normal relaxed pace is treated as stupid or lazy. What in the actual fuck happened to us?
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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 6h ago
You’re just getting old, Josh.
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u/farcarcus 6h ago
Yep, this is it.
Sorry Josh, but time will keep seeming to accellerate.
Perception of time is a function of our imperfect brains, attempting to deal with being stuffed with more and more experiences and memories.
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u/Several-Opposite-746 5h ago
Yes Josh, you have moved from childhood into adulthood are now at a point where you are in decline moving towards the inevitable end. As year passes the colors are less vibrant, sound more muffled, people less friendly as you become increasingly invisible. But don't worry, time will increasingly speed up and you will be able to rest in peace in what will seem like the blink of an eye.
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u/straylight222 4h ago
Nah. People are too much on devices these days. There are countless studies showing this even among Gen-Z/Gen-Alpha, that the usage of devices is impacting their ability to socialize, date, party, open up, relax etc. Everyone is addicted to their phone or their laptop or their tablet or their PC and nobody is socializing anymore. People don't just go out to dance or figure out ways not to be bored like they used to. It's hard for anyone really under 35 to understand this too, because they simply weren't alive and weren't doing things prior to this shift into permanent online living.
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u/Fishbro-YouTube 5h ago
No, it's not age. It's life. Even kids and adults alike agree life was better before 2016
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u/Fishbro-YouTube 5h ago
All these fools saying it's age. It's not.
It started in 2007/2008. During that time it was the best time to be alive, with the world going to shit, housing market crash, etc tons of bullshit in the real world pushing people to the internet that was uncensored, complete genuine no holds barr joy online. The internet was the escape from the bullshit. Shit like Halo, Gears, Call of Duty, Aqua barbie and J.B's baby and one time to annoy your friends even tho it always ends with y'all jammin to it in a unified cringe mocking it, and even the most depressing losers were happier with WoW on TBC and WOTLK. Spongebob movie still fresh in our minds. Love and joy everywhere.
Then it hits. The bail out of wallstreet. Too big to fail. Mad inflation part 1. Dreams start to shrink. Home ownership changing from a modest goal to a lifelong goal.
Then 2020, covid drops and the government commits to the largest inflation rate we've ever seen in history. Stock prices skyrocketed by 5 over the course of 2020 to 2024. Home ownership goes from a lifelong goal to multi-generational goal. GPUs reach 1k+. Even games go up from 60 to 70 and beyond. Consoles will hit 1k.
The people?
The people are clueless. They will demand for more butt fucking, spreading cheeks and lube alike, and then bitch, moan and complain about their incontinence later. They will blissfully demand more and more inflation through their desired government programs while ignoring the inevitable doom that is inflation.
Inflation is the tax that people don't see. It's the unseen blade which is the deadliest.
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u/Elbobosan 4h ago
So you’re telling me you were born 1988 - 1994
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u/icorrectstupidpeople 3h ago
Yeah it’s frankly embarrassing that they could write that much and not admit that it’s because they were young. I was born in the age range you described and I also thought life was fine as the economy collapsed. Because I was an oblivious teen and my parents were having tough conversations about the mortgage while I was in bed or playing Xbox
It really speaks to folks inflated sense of self importance that they just can’t grasp they were young and dumb. But at the same time, I appreciate their perspective because although I feel average intellectually, I can read that uninformed, inaccurate diatribe and think “shit at least I’m not that stupid”
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u/Conscious_Name9514 3h ago
It never gets talked about but occupy wall street sparked corporation’s paying psychologists and various other professionals to figure out how to break up unity and cohesion of people. One of the big studies was an Amazon study. I’m risking my account but it said pushing topics like lgbt and dei was key to stopping unions and unity among the working class. The next year nearly every major corporation celebrated pride and pushed that agenda.
To be clear, I’m not talking negatively about any group of people. I’m just explaining key events.
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u/Firewormworks 1h ago
The most plausible thing I've ever read. I'm looking into this - I know there was a similar internal shift that happened with conservatives shifting from gay rights/culture to transgender.
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u/civil_beast 2h ago
Request for citation any part of this. I must admit the narrative is awfully compelling. Even so
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u/Suntzu_AU 3h ago
Consumers are incredibly stupid nowadays and accept anything they're told. So in some ways they're partly to blame.
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u/DeathWray 5h ago
On the topic of gaming, consoles and AAA titles suck now. Wanna Play with your freinds? 10$ subscription. Wanna look cool doing it? 25$ microtransaction. Battlepass, early access, loot boxes, ads, dlc, tiered editions. Not to mention the AI driven memory apocalypse. You pay more, get less, and it is obsolete in a few months. Have fun.
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u/BlackHeartsNowReign 1h ago
Only person Ive seen on this post that actually acknowledges inflation. The constant injection of new made up money into the market is half of our problems and no one seems to realize it.
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u/National_Farm8699 2h ago
It let capitalism run wild. Yearly revenues were through the roof during COVID. After COVID passed, the pressure to increase revenues continued. Companies continued to raise prices, shrink sizes, and make poorer quality products. Everyone is feeling it now, and it’s draining.
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u/Brodie1567 5h ago
There is actual scientific data that shows the virus actually changed the human brains that it affected.
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u/Xoorbie 2h ago
The Covid lockdowns ruined so many things. Many loved ones died alone in hospitals, unable to have visitors. Students who worked their way up to high school or college graduation didn’t get a graduation. Young kids could not be properly socialized. School kids missed out on a year of education. Weddings, birthdays, funerals, holidays, celebrations in general were suspended. Life-long family businesses were completely wiped out for good, often taking with them vibrant community hubs and places for gathering and connecting. Many things became virtual, contactless, and screen oriented. When things reopened, I think many people harbored a sense of profound grief and rage, both toward things outside of our control and toward things within the control of our governments (which were horrendously mismanaged to the point of ruining many people’s lives for good). So much was taken from us, and so much was lost, that it feels as though people are afraid to put their heart into things the way they did before Covid. Everything feels hollow, uncertain, impermanent, fake, and very difficult to trust. It also feels as though large companies have become nothing but unrelenting, shameless predators feeding on us in a way and on a scale that would have been unthinkable before 2020. The quality of almost everything has plummeted and prices have skyrocketed. I could go on and on… these are just some of my thoughts.
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u/Educational-Tea-6572 1h ago
It also feels as though large companies have become nothing but unrelenting, shameless predators feeding on us in a way and on a scale that would have been unthinkable before 2020. The quality of almost everything has plummeted and prices have skyrocketed
This. I remember the few months at the end of 2020 where it was basically an "employees market," with employees having more bargaining power for higher wages, work from home when possible, etc.
I work in a hospital as a physical therapist, and the therapy department along with other departments got a wage adjustment after pushing for it. I knew even then that there would be a catch... And there was, a month later the company increased productivity standards. As my mom had put it at the time, "The companies aren't going to let employees get away with having any power for long," and she was right. Especially since companies were allowed to price gouge even after the worst of COVID was over since, well, why bother bringing the prices back down? They rip off the consumers and rip off the employees. And here we are.
On a tangent, but I will add to the list of changes that... Well, the lockdowns were a lot and the response to the crisis was botched in many ways; however, the rapid rise in conspiracy theories that COVID wasn't real/wasn't as bad as people were saying honestly made me lose a lot of faith in humanity. And nothing that has happened since then has been enough to make me gain that faith back - quite the opposite, actually. (It's even worse being in America with our current federal administration...)
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u/True-Excuse-1688 6h ago
Nah, that's just hitting your thirties.
You're now old enough to have decades of memories fucking with your sense of time.
Your routine is tiring and stale, every day becoming one big blur.
And then one morning, there's an old fart in the mirror, asking you what the hell happened.
... What do you mean I’m having an existential crisis?
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u/NephthysShadow 3h ago
Collective trauma, probably. Have we as a people really internalized what happened? Fear, death, isolation, constant gaslighting from those we want to trust in times of danger(I miss when I didn't know what ivermectin was).
Let's be honest, we haven't had a moment to really deal with the raw horror of being afraid to breathe in public for a year before there was another horror, another war, another thing that feels like everything is falling apart, on top of basic day to day survival being so hard. We're stretched thin.
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u/remasteredRemake 2h ago
Lmfao nah man it’s def just corporations jacking up prices and the world entering further madness
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u/NephthysShadow 1h ago
Well that sure as fuck isn't helping! Everyone is under massive amounts of stress ALL THE TIME. When the collective mental collapse happens, its gonna be bad.
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u/DeathWray 5h ago
I'm just gonna drop this here and see what happens...
"UNREGULATED CAPITALISM"
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u/Aramedlig 4h ago
And it broke in 2010 with the Citizens United case where SCOTUS made bribery legal and money free speech. We are just now witnessing the consequences of that corruption with a President who has been granted permission to commit crimes without repercussions by many of the same people on the same court
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u/TowardStarsOutlaw 5h ago
One could argue that 2016 was the canary in the coal mine. The world just hasn’t been the same since before then.
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u/machyume 2h ago
A huge number of people no longer strive for what is good. It's all about survival now. I'd like to leave the world better than I found it.
But.
The other day, I found myself making a joke that hit me hard.
I told my kids, "We need to conserve our water and power so that the AI can use it."
So yes. What's wrong is that we are in a Cold War, but the adversary isn't far off. It is within our spirit.
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u/MassiveAmphibians 3h ago
I mean it’s not really a mystery. COVID destroyed the world economy. We are still recovering, and meanwhile democracy is failing across the world.
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u/Lonely-General1316 3h ago
Covid gave every single human varying degrees of brain damage
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u/ep1032 2h ago edited 1h ago
The single most infuriating thing about American politics, is that when a Democrat is in charge, popular conversation talks about the mistakes that the Democratic Party is making and what they should be doing. But when a Republican is in charge, popular conversation blames the mistakes on "the Government", or talk about what all politicians should be doing, or act like the current problems were somehow inevitable. Its so endemic to American politics that even non-political people, when they talk about politics, repeat that style of language.
Back to this post. In 2008, the economy fell apart under the watch of George W Bush, after being strained by two unexpected and incredibly expensive wars in the middle east, which were financed by a federal reserve (that regularly announced that it was focused on lowering workers' average wages) and economic policies that inflated a bubble to hide the costs, which then popped in the housing market. Clearly, all politicians can't be trusted.
From 2009 to 2017, the Democratic Party attempted structural economic reform to fix the economy. They didn't do so fast enough, and though things did get better, people were understandably upset with Democrats for the slow rate of change.
In 2017, the Republican Party elected Donald Trump, who so grotesquely mishandled the Covid crisis, that we still haven't recovered nationally, as is evidenced by the plethora of posts in this post that claim that the world started falling apart under covid, and set off a chain of events that resulted in obscene inflation from which we still haven't recovered. The main discussion during this time period, was that the government cannot be trusted during a health crisis, and that individual people were acting irresponsibly.
Biden was elected in 2021, and the economy slowly improved for 4 years. He and all Democrats were rightfully criticized for being old, seeming feeble, and that his economic recovery felt similarly.
So in 2025 we elected Trump a second time. He spent his first year destabilizing the stock market for personal financial gain and directing government agencies to stop spending and fake their economic data, and surprised surprise by the end of the year we were in a quiet recession. He then spent 2026 starting another war in the middle east which has caused a major quality of life degradation resulting in posts like this.
But instead of saying, oh look, every time we elect a Republican, life gets fucking worse. People in this thread are blaming a dead gorilla, a virus, and vague psychological concepts.
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u/Tzimbalo 4h ago
Oligarchy happened. 2020 pandemic led to billions being pumped to keep the wheels going, that gave the tech companies engugh capital to complete the techno feudal takeover. The pandemic really helped companies like Amazon, über eats and streaming too.
We now live in a world where the very few decides everything and all margins have run out. That is a very instable and dangerous world, especially combined with run away global warming
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u/Necessary-Wasabi-619 6h ago
there is a series of videos about how people's lives changed over time. Simple things, like who you spend your time with and what share. What you eat, how you spend your day. Overall conclusion i made: radio, tv and especially internet turned lives upside down.
here is a link and there is more on that channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYzzGtlG-zU
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u/Necessary-Eye5319 5h ago
That’s when housing costs started to skyrocket. We more homeless than ever and prices even middle class can barely handle.
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u/Few-Past7583 3h ago
I swear we went into a different dimension/ timeline around 2020/2021. Nothing has felt the same
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u/Israel_Azkanbe 5h ago
People watch the news too much
People are too political
People film EVERYTHING
People refuse to fix things or work things out
People never question what they’re doing or saying
We get it Trump is evil, we all know there are Karens no need to film it, you don’t agree with someone about their relationships or ideologies so what?
Why do you pretend to know everything about everything? Why do I pretend to know everything about everything.
Stop thinking and just live already.
That’s my two cents, goodnight
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u/MikeyGorman 5h ago
The problem is people aren’t political enough. Complacency is how we are here.
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u/Aggravating-Diet-663 6h ago
Its been like this since 07. It just got magnified in 2020
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u/Top_Conference_477 5h ago
2001
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u/Pandelein 5h ago
Yep. 2001 was the beginning of the age of surveillance. Sep 11 was the trigger, whether it was terrorists or a false flag doesn’t change that. Everything changed so suddenly in response.
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u/plzicannothandleyou 6h ago
Sounds like someone hit their mid twenties around 2022 and life happened tbh
Because this is just how it feels when you are a few years out of college, you settle into a career, and then there’s just… life.
2020 has nothing to do with that
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u/MALCode_NO_DEFECT 6h ago
Nothing like two years of chemo and a stem cell transplant that'll reignite your zest for life.
10/10. Would recommend.
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u/DoxieDoc 3h ago
In 2020 we found out that roughly a third of the population were so brainwashed and stupid that they would rather potentially kill your grandparents, children, and immunocompromised friends than wear a small slip of fabric over their mouths. Then years later they wrap their entire heads in burkas and beat the shit out of minorities to really get across their microdick syndrome to everyone.
Maga should be given no quarter.
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u/WeirdEngineerDude 2h ago
I hate half of my fellow man because they refused to put a piece of cloth over their face to help keep others from dying.
It showed me that we are screwed as a society and will never be able to solve a real problem like global warming or any other number of existential crises. So I just don’t care anymore. I’ve got mine, I’ll live a comfortable retirement in a few years and fuck everyone else.
Is that the vibe you are picking up?
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u/Conspiratorymadness 6h ago
It's called quarantine and how isolation impacts the human mind. This is coupled by extremist ideologies pulling each person in different directions. We as collective species need to detox from social media and political factions for at least a month to reset our brains. Our dopamine receptors are fried from how much tries to keep our attention.
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u/Active-Play-3429 6h ago
I mean, there’s so much to talk about here. I mean let’s start long before 2020. And whatever it is well know what that it is or it all means something different to us, but don’t I don’t know the culture of the United States has been declining since I was a fucking kid in 1980 I mean a lot of the folks were even older than me can attest to that we let the country get this way and everybody’s looking around. It’s like what the fuck happened. What do you mean what the fuck happened? We let it happen
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u/Claphappy 6h ago
I think it's called brain damage... from COVID, isolation and/or excessive social media.
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u/mvw2 5h ago
I want to explain what happened.
Greed and profiteering at a global scale, out in the open, unregulated, unbound.
The stock market exploded, but the pricing doesn't align with any real metrics anymore.
A whole lot of wealth just drives the push because wealth has to be dumped somewhere. This is the market. This is asset purchases. This is company buy outs. This is institutionalizing everything, so everything around you and your life is built to take your money, all of it.
You have no one representing you. You have no one fighting for you.
Your very own government taxed you on a scale that exceeds anything in the history of anyone currently alive to the point that roughly HALF of the price increase today over the course of the last...oh...decade is very directly taxes. But these aren't good taxes. They're flat taxes massively burdening the poorest in the country.
We also went to war...again.
We also won't properly support victims of wars from others.
We don't protect people. We ARE the bad people.
AI took over everything, literally everything: software, hardware, information, filtering access, and curating what you experience.
We are failing our kids in school and their futures.
Wages have stagnated although inflation has skyrocketed meaning we are poorer than we ever have been, in some metrics poorer than during the great depression depending on which aspects of life you evaluate.
Fewer can afford a home.
Fewer can afford college.
Healthcare costs are skyrocketing.
Fewer have retirement savings.
Many people alive today will likely work until they die.
We are systematically defunding social programs which by design is cheaper on society than not having them at all.
We are pushing the national debt into the stratosphere with no single effort to stall or reverse it. This will be a debt all future people inheret.
The rich are getting VASTLY richer and buying everything.
What is bought is now rented, subscriptioned, or leased back to the masses at exorbitant rates, and often with interest.
We are protecting the corrupt, the criminals, the pedophiles.
There is a massive push for fascism and Christian nationalism as well as a strong return of racism and very public abuse and killings of innocent people.
Mmm, did I miss anything?
So yeah, it's going super.
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u/Total-Suspicious 2h ago
Bot farms creating content to push us to our emotional extremes, making the Internet a full blown hell scape?
Boomers falling for the bots and putting their unadulterated feelings on the Internet, causing their families to alienate / fight with them constantly?
Just trying to help you fill in :)
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u/thatfrostyguy 5h ago
Weird. Covid happened and my life didnt change the entire time. No issues here
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u/RB3_AMG 3h ago
During this time, the powerful have become more powerful and the powerless more powerless. I believe that humanity will only begin to understand in the coming generations where this phase has led us all. One factor that made everything considerably worse was that the feeling of unfairness and unequal treatment led to the stupid ones becoming so much louder - A situation created and promoted by those in power. Nationalists and conspiracy theorists have been on the rise ever since. None of this has stopped. It will only get worse.
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u/ZilkerZephyr 5h ago
I learned that half of my fellow US citizens couldn’t even be bothered to take even basic harmless precautions (mask, etc.) on the off chance it might save the lives of others. I guess I was naive before covid and believed in the decency and compassion of those I live in this country with, regardless of political persuasion. Covid ended the facade and the world hasn’t been the same since.
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u/Skullsandcoffee 5h ago
Am I the only one who fucking LOVED COVID? No traffic, got to work from home (still do), people stayed 6 feet away at all times. It was glorious. I wish we lived like that all the time, but with restaurants and bars open.
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u/Gloomy-Sample9470 4h ago
The best time of my life as a millennial, with all respect to the ones that had it hard 🙏
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u/2WheelSuperiority 6h ago
Everything became a transaction. Everything. Most specially, socialization became a transaction.
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u/PeaOk5697 4h ago
I'm so fucked up by these politicians. I'm laying awake at night scared my landlord will raise my rent because of high electricity prizes
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u/ottopivnr 6h ago
The split came when SCOTUS gave the 2000 election to Bush. We lost the climate battle when Gore was defeated, then 9/11, then Fox news and the lies that led to the iraq war. Obama was a pushback, but the backlash to that gave us DJT and white supremacy out in the open. DJT and Fox are directly responsible for the unreality of the US response to Covid, which is what has led, in part, to what the OP is describing.
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u/littleSquidwardLover 3h ago
Ohhhhh my fucking God can we stop with these posts, I'm so sick of seeing, "you know, things just feel different after [X] year." Or, "before [X] year things were just so much better, everything was more alive."
Like yeah, I don't know what to tell you. Peoples lives change, something in your life changed.
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u/Delicious_Camp349 3h ago
It did. It’s because we have experienced a decade of Trump. Biden did his best with COVID recovery but we never recovered from the Trump era and here we are again. We are exhausted and not trusting other people because we saw who was who based on whether they wore masks or not. That won’t heal any time soon.
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u/CaptainMagnets 4h ago
It's the reality that you realized half, if not more, of the planet doesn't give a fuck about you or anyone but themselves and can't wait for you to fuck off and die.
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u/NerdModeXGodMode 4h ago
Locked in with social media made yall crazy. I had a great time during and after covid lol
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u/ChooseWhyZlee 4h ago
It's the hell window/surveillance device we carry around everywhere. God only knows what else it's doing. For everyone saying it's just people turnign into boomers, the big difference is that kids used to be able to read. Adults could expect each other to act civil outdoors. There's always assholes everywhere but the entitled way people act in the US is insane.
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u/thepunkmonkey138 4h ago
It's because you don't remember before 9/11, the Cold War, Vietnam, The Cuban Missile Crisis, WWII, WWI, and on and on....
It changed each time, you are just remembering this one because it was so recent and everyone with internet access remembers it.
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u/No-Mulberry-6474 4h ago
Go live your life and get a hobby you’d be surprised how quickly you won’t feel this way.
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u/ShiftProfessional404 4h ago
It started during the Dot Com Bubble ! After that then 9/11 then 08 and now the present
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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 4h ago
You got older lmao.
This is the normal progression of age for most people. Time starts to slip once you are an adult with an adult life that's just the same thing day in and out.
Covid if anything temporarily slowed down time. So perhaps it's the contrast that is hitting you uncs so hard.
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u/Alibaba20202020 3h ago
Due to the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns, people have become increasingly isolated and dependent on social media. Social behavior has changed drastically; our sense of humanity is fading, while egoism continues to rise. Although access to knowledge has become easier and more independent of location, the younger generation, in particular, no longer shows any interest in general education or similar pursuits—focusing instead solely on self-presentation online, chasing clicks, and engaging with social media. Humans were not made for the internet; in the past, fools remained largely confined to their local environments, unable to spread their stupidity very far. Today, however, such individuals connect online and reinforce one another’s distorted worldviews. It’s a pity...
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u/Ziz-bird 3h ago
The world is getting ready to hatch... Capitalism crossed a threshold, which means fascism soon crossed a threshold in its wake, class consciousness and the inevitable sickness that is ultra-wealthy people became harder to ignore, a decade worth of escalating transphobia advertising (news) started to pay real political dividends at the cost of blood, the genocide in Gaza became harder to call anything else while top Israeli officials like Ben Gavir say crazy Nazi type things on social media, one shot two kills t-shirts didn't even get anyone fired much less prosecuted, the war in the Ukraine dragged on, Republicans maintained majority in every branch of government, doing what conservatism does (maintaining and deepening hierarchy and roles), social media, AI, mass-surveillance, autonomous killing machines, autonomous hacker AI agents, masked men in unmarked cars killing people in the street legally or illegally doesn't much matter, and we kept putting more and more of lower and lower forms of cruelty-infused food into our bodies. When we've had enough of justifying unnecessary violence, we'll hatch as a species and spread joy across the planet where we spread suffering yesterday, or we'll keep finding ways to rationalize violence, wars, child abuse, eating animals, domestic violence, and the time for hatching will pass... so we rot in the egg, and life ends before it really began.
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u/carlos5577 3h ago
I think the difference between then and now is that we were younger and harambe was still alive before 2016
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u/Banana8686 3h ago
The years are disappointing faster but everything doesn’t FEEL more expensive. Everything IS more expensive
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u/PandaBearJones 3h ago
Curious if this is how everyone across the globe feels or if it’s just an American sentiment?
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u/ReplicantOwl 2h ago
In addition to what others have said, we lost over a million people just in the USA. Almost everyone you meet has lot at least one (often more) people they care about. We haven’t experienced a mass death event like that in decades.
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u/Live-Exit-20 2h ago
Are people not talking about it??? lol this is all my friends and I have talked about since like 2018 or so
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u/revenge_burner 2h ago
2017 to early 2020 were the greatest times of my life by a wide margin. 2020 was like a light switch.
I'm living a nice life now, but it will never be that fun and carefree.
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u/eltaconobueno 2h ago
I feel like we all realized we are actually sheep. Most people will go along with just about anything regardless of how ridiculous it is. That backbone that we all thought we had turned out to be a fantasy. Our government could start killing people in mass tomorrow and most of us would just go to work anyway.
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u/Flower-FarmGirl 2h ago
It’s all by design. Listen to what we’re being told from social media to news networks to ads and more. We’re told to be divided, we’re told we’re tired, we’re told to be angry, we’re told we don’t feel good. Are we surprised by what we’re being told and who is behind all those ads and articles telling us this? We’re being worn down on purpose.
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u/drblah11 2h ago
Mayan calendar 2012 none of you believed it. Been steadily getting worse ever since.
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u/KRiSX 2h ago
I literally didn’t stop during Covid, I’m jealous of people that did 😅 the only long term impact it has had on my life is that I still mask in busy places, public transport, etc and I don’t get sick all the time like I used to. 🤷🏻♂️ my social life did take a hit but it was petering out anyway when I look back on it.
Now I’m just doomed to supporting all the brain damaged idiots that keep getting sick all the time and dumber by the minute.
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u/Dopecombatweasel 2h ago
Where i live, everything costs 5x more across the board than it did before covid. I hardly give a fuck anymore about shit
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u/Ven-Dreadnought 2h ago
America has always had the reputation abroad as the selfish, self-gratifying country and the last decade has been all about individuals and corporations proving that right and the rest of us feeling too disappointed and too powerless to do anything about it
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u/inspired-polf 1h ago
The short term research on long COVID and brain fog is shocking. The one I'm tracking hasn't published but I know one of the researcheers. It's possible the whole species dropped 12-20 iq points.
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u/Porschenut914 1h ago
a huge part of the population said this is terrible and sizeable amount couldn't give a fuck about their fellow human beings.
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u/Ok_Let_1997 1h ago
after covid when we're still adjust with world routine( job, school, marry etc) suddenly we receive new about Russian and ukrain war, Palestine war etc it's one after another
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