The modern world sucks ass

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yes, we all thought this when we were your age. Turns out we unfortunately need money. To get money we must do things we do not want to do like construction jobs or office jobs and maybe even blow jobs.

[–]fschmidt 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The mainstream world was tolerable when I was younger. It no longer is.

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I think things are way better. I can have any media or order any consumer good I want at a touch or voice command 24/7. Talk to a person whenever across the globe. Play a video game from a selection of almost every game ever made.

I remember many nights growing up stuck laying in bed at night, unable to sleep. All the channels of the television were off except for something about Jesus and Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (Great movie btw) and even those would go off eventually. Nobody to talk to, nothing to do.

I'll grant it's not all better, social interactions have suffered. People used to go outside and do stuff cause there was nothing to do inside and that was good. Now there's too much to do alone or connected only virtually to others.

[–]fschmidt 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We disagree. In the past, I could go to a store and talk to an honest knowledgeable sales person to painlessly make a purchase. I could travel to other countries that actually had different cultures, unlike the modern monoculture that now dominates the world. I have always found video games to be stupid and useless but I enjoyed playing chess and Go when I was younger.

I never liked television, but I read many books which I loved, easily gotten at the public library. And there were people to talk to back then before everyone became a moron. Now there is almost no one worth talking to.