The ability to sincerely express your thoughts and engage in a conversation, in a good faith, and in a sincere manner is becoming a lost art. I see evidence of this everywhere I go, everyday. In real life and online.
Online all I see is ragebait, irony-poisoning, meme spam, dunning-kruger autists, schizo-posting, militant ideologues who only care about pushing an agenda, gooner shit, emoji spam, buzzwords, and brainrot. The sad thing is, it's not even bots...it's a people problem. Also, before anyone claims I'm no-fun-allowed.jpg, I understand the entertainment value of shitposting. Back in the mid to late 2000s I was a /b/tard (this was before /b/ turned into a porn dump board) so I get it. But back then we knew how to turn off the ebin meme shitposting and le epik trolling, even on /b/ itself.
And since most of my coworkers are zoomers, I see a lot of this in real life as well. My coworkers use internet lingo and reference memes and brainrot constantly. So many of them are irony-poisoned memelords. They talk like stereotypical tiktokers or redditors and parrot the same opinions thereof. I'm in my coworkers group chat, and most of the time the chat is just memes, and unintelligible acronyms, emojis and zoomer lingo. Sometimes they'll actually talk about something semi-sincerely briefly, but it's usually in a reddit sort of way (I'm sure you know what I mean). At this point I think you'd have to go to an amish community, north korea, or sentinel island to find people in their 20s who's brains haven't been completely corrupted by tik-tok and reddit. Anyone who denies the immense cultural impact of the internet (especially tik-tok and reddit) is either a boomer, living under a rock, or just willfully ignorant. Even on this forum, some people have antiquated ideas of what normies are like (probably because they've been NEETs for years).
The sad thing is, this isn't even a "muh idiocracy was a documentary on the present" situation. Most of my co-workers have IQs that blow mine out of the water. I'm clearly dumber and slower in terms of fluid intelligence, they're just less NT (they're not ND in a literal sense, but their behavior is autist-adjacent) and have much poorer social skills due to never developing them in the first place due to having grown up being terminally online and hyper-introverted. We're talking about a generation who prefer texting over talking on the phone and avoid the latter because it gives them "anxiety". I'm a naturally low inhib, extroverted guy so I would HATE to be growing up in such socially oppressive times.
This is one of the reasons I'm e/acc. Not the main reason, but one of the reasons. I know that sounds counter-intuitive (seeing how the internet caused these problems) but the reality is, realistically we're never going back to a pre-terminally online time. We're never going back to a time when people would hang out at the mall or the arcade. We're never going back to a time when young people would go out together and wouldn't have their faces stuffed in their phones the entire time. We're never going back to a time when most people met their partner through their social circle as opposed to online. We're never going back to a pre-irony-poisoning time. Human connection is only going to continue diminishing. Might as well advance AI as quickly as possible, develop sentient AI, automate everything, and give everyone UBI. That way we won't have to even talk to another human being ever again. Right now we're in an awkward phase where we can't establish meaningful connections with others, but we still have to deal with other people.
I'm sort of in a unique position as a nearly 40 year old who mainly works with zoomers. If you're a 20 year old, this is all you've ever known, it's completely normal to you. A pre-mass-terminally-online world is probably difficult for you to even imagine, and this whole post is just "MUH WATER IS WET". If you're a typical 40 year old, and your coworkers are 40+, you're somewhat sheltered from this. But I'm in a situation where everyday I feel like a living anachronism. I've posted this RMS quote before, and how I relate to it...but I don't think I've ever related to a quote as much as this one and it still hits hard:
Online all I see is ragebait, irony-poisoning, meme spam, dunning-kruger autists, schizo-posting, militant ideologues who only care about pushing an agenda, gooner shit, emoji spam, buzzwords, and brainrot. The sad thing is, it's not even bots...it's a people problem. Also, before anyone claims I'm no-fun-allowed.jpg, I understand the entertainment value of shitposting. Back in the mid to late 2000s I was a /b/tard (this was before /b/ turned into a porn dump board) so I get it. But back then we knew how to turn off the ebin meme shitposting and le epik trolling, even on /b/ itself.
And since most of my coworkers are zoomers, I see a lot of this in real life as well. My coworkers use internet lingo and reference memes and brainrot constantly. So many of them are irony-poisoned memelords. They talk like stereotypical tiktokers or redditors and parrot the same opinions thereof. I'm in my coworkers group chat, and most of the time the chat is just memes, and unintelligible acronyms, emojis and zoomer lingo. Sometimes they'll actually talk about something semi-sincerely briefly, but it's usually in a reddit sort of way (I'm sure you know what I mean). At this point I think you'd have to go to an amish community, north korea, or sentinel island to find people in their 20s who's brains haven't been completely corrupted by tik-tok and reddit. Anyone who denies the immense cultural impact of the internet (especially tik-tok and reddit) is either a boomer, living under a rock, or just willfully ignorant. Even on this forum, some people have antiquated ideas of what normies are like (probably because they've been NEETs for years).
The sad thing is, this isn't even a "muh idiocracy was a documentary on the present" situation. Most of my co-workers have IQs that blow mine out of the water. I'm clearly dumber and slower in terms of fluid intelligence, they're just less NT (they're not ND in a literal sense, but their behavior is autist-adjacent) and have much poorer social skills due to never developing them in the first place due to having grown up being terminally online and hyper-introverted. We're talking about a generation who prefer texting over talking on the phone and avoid the latter because it gives them "anxiety". I'm a naturally low inhib, extroverted guy so I would HATE to be growing up in such socially oppressive times.
This is one of the reasons I'm e/acc. Not the main reason, but one of the reasons. I know that sounds counter-intuitive (seeing how the internet caused these problems) but the reality is, realistically we're never going back to a pre-terminally online time. We're never going back to a time when people would hang out at the mall or the arcade. We're never going back to a time when young people would go out together and wouldn't have their faces stuffed in their phones the entire time. We're never going back to a time when most people met their partner through their social circle as opposed to online. We're never going back to a pre-irony-poisoning time. Human connection is only going to continue diminishing. Might as well advance AI as quickly as possible, develop sentient AI, automate everything, and give everyone UBI. That way we won't have to even talk to another human being ever again. Right now we're in an awkward phase where we can't establish meaningful connections with others, but we still have to deal with other people.
I'm sort of in a unique position as a nearly 40 year old who mainly works with zoomers. If you're a 20 year old, this is all you've ever known, it's completely normal to you. A pre-mass-terminally-online world is probably difficult for you to even imagine, and this whole post is just "MUH WATER IS WET". If you're a typical 40 year old, and your coworkers are 40+, you're somewhat sheltered from this. But I'm in a situation where everyday I feel like a living anachronism. I've posted this RMS quote before, and how I relate to it...but I don't think I've ever related to a quote as much as this one and it still hits hard:
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