Ugh I hate apps being needed for everything, it's ludicrous. At this rate you'll need an app to take the garbage out.
I already have to
If only Firefox os had taken off. Just progressive web apps with no special permissions or tracking.
Touch control on everything. Microwave, induction hob, cars, elevators, ...
Cars! I want knobs i don't want to look at a screen while I'm driving ffs
That could be interpreted in quite a nsfw way...
Haha true. I love touching knobs...
Touch screens should be illegal.
Amen
Anti-intellectualism. That, and the general increase in fearfulness of people despite the long term trend of decreasing violent crime.
Censorship
We have access to almost all the knowledge of the world at our fingertips yet we seem to be getting dumber than ever before.
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doesn't this teach us something about the contextual nature of knowledge? It's not just about access to a set of facts, arguably the facts we choose to look at and how we interpret them are more relevant- whether that's a 9/11 truther choosing to look at "anomalous" facts that give them a feeling of justification for taking bold speculative leaps about the hidden truth, or a liberal who focuses on the war crimes committed by conservatives as condemnatory while they ignore or downplay when liberals have committed similar atrocities or violated international laws.
The context determines how the facts are interpreted, what weight they are given, and how they shape behavior or even beliefs. People don't just accumulate facts, knowledge and beliefs are complex, and subject to manipulation.
arguably the facts we choose to look at and how we interpret them are more relevant
completely agree with you! "Truth" can take on different meanings from different viewpoints, what i was referring to that despite having better resources, being better equipped to inform ourselves in depth about any topic, we see polarised discourse where the purpose is not the search for 'truth', rather to win, reason and critical thinking seem to have taken a back seat.
Differences have existed and will continue to exist but how we deal with them hasn't improved how it could have given the advancements in connectivity and information flow.
We have this wonderful thing that allows people across the world talk to each other, yet some countries have built a firewall around their country...
Real world borders are already very sad, erecting a new barrier on the internet in this era of this interconnected world... feels like someone trying to choke you to death.
Capitalism
Lack of privacy.
Especially over the last 6 months, things have been going crazy bananas. Facial recognition everywhere, data broker and data harvesting beyond belief, and aggressively marginalizing anyone that tries to leave the walled gardens.
My thoughts are my own. Let me search for weird stuff in peace.
Surveillance capitalism at it's finest. The biggest problem I find is:
If our data is so valuable just pay me for it, for fuck sake! There should me a model that pays me for my data.
People tend to shit on Brave for their Attention Token model, but I find it a step in the right direction.
Shoving so-called "AI" into everything.
Motors. Car motors. Truck motors. Furnace and air conditioning motors. Fan motors. Lawn mower motors. Fridge motors. I can't understand how people are happy with the constant hum of motors all day, every day.
It's all noise pollution. The sounds of nature has been eradicated and replaced by the drone of motors.
The refrigerator in my apartment makes the loudest, stupidest groaning noises. It's not actually the motor, it's air pockets in the refrigerant, but It honestly sounds like it's haunted by a cartoon ghost, and it makes the sound CONSTANTLY when the compressor is running.
My landlord refuses to acknowledge the problem, and says as long as it's keeping things cold (which it is), then it's fine. It's not even an old fridge, it's probably only 5 or 6 years old (which honestly might be the problem, old fridges last forever)
I even tried to live the no-fridge life and had it unplugged for a couple months, but along with that being hellaciously inconvenient, and my energy bill not actually going down at all, I've just continued to live with this stupid ghost-fridge. I've gotten really good at opening it for the least possible amount of time and cleaned all the coils and condensers and everything to minimize the time the compressor is running. It's taken me ~4 years but I am ALMOST at the point where I don't notice it.
What Blaze said. Additionally:
Not finding decent work
The lack of patient in everything, be it driving, looking for answer, or in general the lack of patient in waiting for their thing to be done.
Purely based on my most recent experience: an over reliance on cars.
I actually love driving but on a recent road trip I was following a freeway for two days that had railroad tracks parallel to it. We passed dozens of freight trains on it but after some hours of driving I was thinking it would be just so much more comfortable riding a passenger train instead of all the driving.
Just about everything.
Companies not treating me like a human being. Like damn, do you have no empathy?
Also, people in public facing jobs like support call lines that speak really soft and don't pronounce their words. Like dude, how is communications the path you chose for yourself when you can't even enunciate.
Oh last one that got me livid during covid was seeing airlines get bailed out from bankruptcy. I feel if theyre that big and they are going bankrupt, well fuck em. Do your business better. Have a lil savings to fall back on idiot. This only goes for big ass companies, mom and pops can get bailouts. ๐
Mmm... Probably Western moral relativism, as a final result of immaturity and ideological emptiness. Nothing is 'right' or 'wrong', nothing can be 'judged', every choice is 'valid'... all of this because the mere thought that perhaps you're living your life entirely wrong, and the reasons for your unhappiness, dissatisfaction and inescapable loneliness lie entirely within you, cause you unbearable emotional pain (again, immaturity, as any normally developed adult would be able to just admit it to themselves at least and make the appropriate changes, not plug their ears and double down).
And yes, I do mean Western. Everyone is flawed and somewhere in the spectrum of idiocy and selfishness, but only Westerners will believe they're not making mistakes and being unwise and immoral because they're perennial fencesitters (again, every choice is 'valid' and if you disagree you're 'not letting them be free', lol, whatever that means). It wasn't always like that, but it certainly is now.
Have you read "The abolition of man"? Your thoughts are very similar to what the author describes in that book. I too experience it to be larger now than ever before in my life.
The obvious counterside of that coin is: without moral relativism, one would place their culture above others. Something that's seen as an evil in the zeitgeist.
but only Westerners will believe they're not making mistakes and being unwise and immoral because they're perennial fencesitters
I think you might be having a "grass is greener" moment.
Hey! I haven't but the wiki says "Lewis goes on to warn readers about the consequences of doing away with ideas of objective value. It defends "man's power over nature" as something worth pursuing but criticizes the use of it to debunk values, the value of science itself being among them. The title of the book then, is taken to mean that moral relativism threatens the idea of humanity itself." so yeah, definitely.
And, as I see it, some ideologies ("cultures" felt a bit too big of a word) are objectively 'better' (as in, they allow the largest amount of people, perhaps even everyone, to live with each other happily, healthily, peacefully and lovingly) than others. I mean, if one take can be better than another, a collection of takes can also be better than another, right? In fact, denying that is nothing but another expression of current Western ideology. I'm telling you, there's such a thing as objective rights and wrongs that people outside of the Western sphere of influence believe in (in degrees though). In their case, the problems lie in an excess in restrictiveness and unfair treatment/punishment due to it. But I think it's a better starting point than to deny it all, throwing away the baby with the bathwater.
You'll want to read it :) I wholely agree, and given the context C.S. Lewis wrote it in, I think it's quite important today.
And then I shall, kind stranger. Thanks for the recommendation! ๐
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