The loss of ethics and the spread of cynicism.

submitted by HibikiBlackCaudillo from (self.conspiracy)

When it comes to industrial society, a lot of people put so much effort into improving their social status that they become cynical about everything else. Love of money replaces basic ethics and despite the fact that many can emulate a "good" facade, a lot of people have given up on everything. When you think about all the unethical things the government has done you would think people would be motivated to set up a serious change in society, but things remain the same.

From my perspective most of these people are in fact hopeless, they are too indulged in their basic hedonistic drives like for them to seriously care about society and others. It's not something that we should worry too much about, all we can do is do our best to change society for the better, but not without forgetting the value of our effort and why we are fighting for.

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This assumes things were once better. At best it's cyclical. From banana republics to unethical human experimentation, yellow journalism, the sausage Jungle, cutting off people's hands for not producing enough rubber, colonialism, proxy wars, intentional starvation, The Neverending Story...

When was the golden time when things were better, when people were better, for them to be worse now.

[–]Druullus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Where do you put the Sentinelese? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese

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I had never heard of them before, that was an interesting read. Sound pretty savage.

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Profit = Prophet.

This transition has been occurring/planned for a long, long time.

For all the good they did do (and I am in no way diminishing it) - the French and American masonic revolutions also inculcated the concept that "freedom" is the highest virtue of man, over obedience to whatever crown/religion existed before (which Im fine with) - or to the morality of society itself (as ethics come from within - and morality from outside) - and is more than likely why we've ended up with the wide-spectrum of different types of people. The "throwing off of shackles of cultural norms" is a consequence of freedom over the time-tested common-senses that got us this far.

The internet didn't (and won't, ever) help either.

It used to be that if there was a goat-fucker in a village (or someone committing usury - or fraud, or any of it), they would have to keep it secret - now, they can meet in private in discord and role-play that they are legion and deserve to be treated as "normal".