Does Anyone Else Feel Like Everything Has Changed?
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@Revolutionary Utena you don't know what you are missing out on. this is how the rich hide there wealth,. either way your choice
Your periodicity reflects a eurocentric world view. The world is a lot bigger than that and many indigenous people have suffered their cultures ending outside your mooted inflection points
Yet nitrogen has toxified the air more so than any other human endeavor. Oxygen in ambient air is at best 50% of what it was before humanity was spared starvation by adding manufactured nitrogen to soil. We are all suffering from oxygen deprivation on the full cellular level (among other problems resulting from nitrogen production). Postulate how many diseases run rampant with low oxygen, whilst the human organism suffers. With the explosion of certain diseases linked to either low oxygen or NOT ENOUGH oxygen, certainly this is a matter of great concern. We need bright minds (young, old, in between) to find solutions. But where to find those with these minds who are willing to problem solve harmoniously with other bright minds? Hmmm 🤔
I am 57. Not only does it feel like " something wicked this way comes" but there is also this feeling that the whole world is holding it's breath. Almost as though we are all waiting for some catalyst or sign or event that puts an end to this feeling of being put on hold. This vague, unexplained unease we feel. Something terrible lurking just out of our field of vision but we all feel it closing in. I cannot count the number of people who have told me they wish that whatever is going to happen would just get on with it. That this waiting for the thing in the darkness is unbearable.
same age, and i actually use the same quote, often … “ by the pricking of my thumbs…” weirdly been expecting it for most of my life
I’m 53, and yes, I absolutely feel like everything has changed. I’m always saying that the world today is a different place, things are different now than when I was growing up, and even since just the last decade, and the world today is not a nice place. I love the internet, but it’s also evil. We have no privacy anymore and anyone could hack anything. I am just waiting to see what is going to happen, because I feel like we are in the beginning of a major turning point in the world, but I just don’t know what, exactly, is around the corner, and it’s scary.
You put in to words what I’ve been feeling the past 2 years! I just couldn’t explain it. This comment made me feel less alone and crazy. Thank you!
it might be age that you are afraid of, I work in a senior care home and i noticed this with the residents. kinda like time is coming to an end. Some embrace it and others don’t. We all have a choice wether we accept it or not. understanding that the time you have right now in this moment you need to live for.
@@doge2themoon373 at fifty seven, OP is anywhere between 7-35 years away from going to a nursing home, depending on how healthy they are.
What's weird to me is the shift in the relationships. I remember the times when there were no mobile phones and we used to communicate more often with relatives. Now that there are tons of apps that allow you to reach out to people, there's hardly any communication. I lost contact with half of my relatives. For no apparent reason. I just feel so isolated. And every relationship, every friendship feels shallow. It wasn't like this before
I agree , I prefer face to face and breaking bread with others if possible
In countries that are developing it’s quite different. People still talk a lot face to face there. Sure there are modern changes but the atmosphere whenever I visit those countries is like being sent back in the 90s and early 2000s. People are just that social. Whenever I go back to the US, communication with others is more distant and polite rather than having real substance and with genuine interest.. I feel that what you guys are feeling are common in developed countries. It’s all going too fast, we need to take it slow and try being more social and understanding again
When you always can, you probably won’t.
This comment! I feel the same way before iPhones it was easier to talk to girls and go on dates. Now girls have so many options because of social media you can’t even talk to a girl
@@oscarplant6371 exactly, we are desensitized to opportunity
I'm a 46 old french man and I live in Paris. I can tell you that we feel the same way over here. Maybe and probably, it's the same everywhere in the West. What used to be fun is no more. I've stopped enjoying watching football and basketball because it's boring. I watch only movies who were made before 2010, I listen to old music, I don't go out anymore, I just go eat to restaurants sometimes with friends but it's only to complain about how things are sad and how our politicians are ruining our lives. The population is supposedly growing but the streets get empty very early at night. There is no vibe anymore... I'm single with no children and It almost seems impossible to meet a woman these days. Everybody feels lonely but nobody wants to make any efforts, people are depressed and just want to go home as soon as possible. I don't go on social medias because it's an awful way to spend time and to meet new people, everything seems so fake and so superficial. I think that this lingering feeling of emptiness that we all experience comes from the fact that the world is changing too fast and we all know that the crazy people who are in charge are preparing something dark and therefore we can't plan anything for the futur. We have no real goals because the futur seems so uncertain. Therefore we are on autopilot and we are waiting for something to happen. The fog is too thick right now, we're just waiting for the horizon to get clear. I miss the 80s and 90s when humans used to dance on slows, you could instantly connect physically with other people, the world was so easy. Now there are too much rules and everybody is just insane. Anyway...I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one to feel this way. I wish you peace my brothers and sisters, and let's all pray for a better futur.
What's coming will be very difficult for those who have children, especially small ones. I began to warn quite a few years ago that now is not the time for building families and living life as usual. That message mostly didn't go over too well, but perhaps the word will reach one or two who are still on the fence.
I hear you brother
Very well articulated. I was born in 97 but I relate to this comment so much. I’m grateful I at least had a childhood upbringing mostly free of the internet/smartphone grasp :/
I'm 31. Same, I tend to not watch new movies anymore.
I feel the same way. And I don’t watch new movies either. I feel like they’re brainwashing me somehow. I just don’t know how they’re doing it.
Thought I was the only one. The fact I see so many here commenting they feel the same is comforting in a way.
Same here my good man. 50 years old and this feels nothing like I remember any more
Yeah. It makes us connected. Some people would say "Nothing has changed." or "Every year is the same.", which express indifference and aren't 100% true, and every individual feels different feelings. Understanding is a first step to connection, otherwise, it's an empty and one-sided conversation.
Comforting yet deeply concerning
There is power in a band of working folk when we stand hand in hand.
United we bargain, divided we beg.
Workers must strike for better conditions.
Without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
DONT SCAB FOR THE BOSSES, DONT LISTEN TO THEIR LIES.
US POOR FOLK DONT GOT A CHANCE UNLESS WE ORGANIZE!!!!!!
I feel the same way I thought I was going crazy.
I’m 71 years old. The world feels unsettled to everyone. It has felt this way before many times. I lived through a lot. An example is the Vietnam War when we were sending people my age off to a foreign country to fight a war and we didn’t know why we were fighting and dying in this foreign country. But believe me things will change. Hopefully there will come a time when you all will feel more settled.
Thank you for this
I agree although this time I think it’s a bit darker and more sinister, I think it’s not like before because we have more humans than ever on the planet with a shrinking amount of natural resources. It isn’t going to end well. I think that’s clear. We didn’t change the direction environmentally, years ago and now it’s too late. Enjoy your older age and be thankful you are almost out, I know I am.
People should look at this comment lol.
@@acooksla gonna come a time where the young folks have to wage war with their very existence. The crucible of our own making will not be forgiving, but it will neither be a condemnation. Not for all of us, anyway. What we have done to the world is the truest horror I could imagine.
We were sending 71-year-olds to Vietnam? No wonder we lost.
I know something has happened ever since COVID started. Things don't feel the same anymore and time passes so fast that we can't even enjoy a bit of it. I feel like humanity is waiting for something to happen, something that will bring us back together like before. It gets tired of living when everyday is the same and nothing feels real to me, to anyone anymore.
I feel like there's gonna be some sort of revolution, y'know
things've been stirring for a while, and more and more people have been speaking up about it
it's just
we need to act, I guess
but, against what..?
It’s so comforting to know I’m not alone
The Matrix
Yep, exactly this - good summary. Life has felt very samey since Covid and it's been hard to enjoy every day.
The last decanate of Pluto in Capricorn entered in early 2019, if u noticed a subtle but important swift of this world we live in since 2008, that became stronger in 2012 with the Pisces Neptune craziness, all those things hasn't ended AT ALL, but certainly starting to show its tipping points, or decanates, the Capricorn thingy that started in 2008 with all this workaholic, cold, job office obsession we've been living for the past decade, literally reached its pinnacle in early 2019, with a less workaholic attitude but more servicing and smart, that the pandemic made bigger in 2020, we've been transferred to a virtual world, autonomous jobs, cars and home office were things that already existed since 2015 but the pandemic made them a reality, time is going faster because of this, then the last decanate of Neptune in pisces arrived in 2021, last 2 years, it added to the craziness, kinda cyberpunk vibes, everyone got really intense and surreal but happier, I started taking hormones finally, around 2021, i couldn't just take it anymore, and not only me but everyone else has been different since spring 2021, a lot of bisexuality, cynicism, etc, but in a cool way, I haven't been so close to straight men since 2021, and overall the whole world is riding this "new thing", which will only increase EXPONENTIALLY as pluto dwells into Aquarius this summer, things will get kinda scary, even for me!!!! the eccentricity and craziness of Aquarius is stronger than Capricorn, because Aquarius is unexplainable, weird, etc, the only ones who will just Swim through the next years will be Gen Z and Gen Alpha, people born after 1996, they will just adapt brand new, and oh my god, will they scare us, sum that to tech reaching its tipping point also in Aquarius, expect Alexa to grow legs and clean the house, autonomous factories, cities, etc, everyone exposed more than ever cause no one will have the right to privacy, thats too expensive and high maintenance for a robot based world that a.i won't really find practical for a decent human treat, not just for robots but for actual humans, 2023 and 2024 will seem like that but the real thing happens in 2025 as pluto finally leaves Capricorn and also Neptune leaves Pisces in favor of a world thats already built for this, just in its awaiting, Pluto in Aquarius and Neptune in Aries, a whole new set, think of it as the animatronics of 5 nights at Freddys, just waiting to "revive" and finally have a work thing to do!
I went to sleep in 2012, and have been stuck in the same nightmare ever since
They did say the world would end in 2012
I too feel like I’m in a different dimension. It’s like I woke up one morning and everything was different.
Yep this is me too. I was in a bad car accident in 2013 & ever since NOTHING is the same!! I don't remember anything but waking up in the hospital & my family was there, but somehow different. AND they still are!!
That’s when they first turned on the large hadron collider at CERN.
@@Sakura-pc9cp They first turned it on in September 2008, which is funny cus the stock market crashed 2 weeks after.
If you were here before the internet, youll realise the change came with social media. There are no longer consequences for disrespecting others because youre sitting safely on your own spewing out hate to other people youll never meet. When you are without consequence, youre not able to develop empathy. You never have space alone or with your family because everyone can access you now. You wake up, look at your phone and immediately smashed into the opinions of millions of people around the world. Its so bad for mental health. We are all anxious, stressed, angry, frustrated and alone now
What you're saying resonates with me.
You are not wrong...yet we all have the power to reduce screen time and watch the birds fly through the trees. It is refreshing.
But most ppl are already drawn towards social media and other technologies that harms our brain without even noticing it.
Eh, my family made me feel that way by 1996; so im pretty used to it now.
@@OutHereOnTheFlatsWe do, but humans also have a drive to be where the action is - and the "action" of today (for many people, not all) is the having/judging of opinions in the consequence-less vacuum of the internet. There are real/meaningful ideas being discussed and developed, but for many of us that practical application is missing where the rare good that comes from online discourse just stays there because we are lacking real-life communities in which to put them into practice. We can stop looking at social media, but we can't escape its influence on our culture, economy, and relationships without serious concerted effort or the courage to do something wildly different with your life than most people. It hurts us whether we engage with it or not, and disengaging with it means sacrificing your participation in the big-c Conversation that nobody actually enjoys but everybody's talking about and everybody wants to get in on.
I think it's a sacrifice worth making, but the scar it inflicted will be there forever. I've deleted most of my socials and am trying to connect with people who want something different, FOMO and familiar comforts be damned. Watching birds and feeling alive on your own is one thing, but being a social animal trying to untangle oneself from the most powerful communication tool in the known universe is another.
As someone born in the mid 90s, I think the world started to change (for the worst) during the ealy 2010s and everything degraded after that. Internet, social media and smartphones stopped being a cool novelty and became the primary addiction for a good portion of the global population, myself included. Life felt so different before that. Covid lockdowns destroyed whatever was left.
I swear there was some big change in 2012, and another every 4 years since then. And not for the better
Can confirm. And it really got bad around covid, and hasn't recovered.
Couldn’t agree more
literally reading this while I have one hand holding my phone and one hand on my mouse
As born in 1979, i cann even agree with your statement or feeling. In my feeling the tipping point was around 2005 to beginning of the 10 years
For me it's a feeling of staleness, like there's nothing to be excited for anymore. Literally going through the motions but feeling as if I'm not here. Literally like living through a simulation.
Life feels unreal.
After everything that happened in 2020, we're carrying on trying to pretend like nothing happened.
It's like a universal jadedness. Something feels off. Maybe like everyone's saying... We're waiting for the bottom to drop out. I don't know, but it sucks. I think it's system fatigue... Tired of playing the capatalistic game of chasing money.
Something is disconnecting us at the core. I think it's tech....we interact more with it.. than each other. Our human need to physically connect and feel valid feels severed, and that is a serious problem. It feels like we're losing our humanity... And tech has a major role in it.
Anyone else?
Hi Chris. Your comment particularly resonated with me. Yes..someone else here, too..
I agree with you 100 percent. I think it’s a mixture of post covid stress and endless technology. The further we remove ourselves from nature, the further we are from peace.
You couldn’t have said it better. Sending 💕
I think its a lot to do with overstimulation ruining dopamine system - in junk food, social media, all this instant gratification etc.
When i go a week without my phone, getting quality sleep, eating clean, going outside more, and maybe meditate and being healthy: i feel myself again and my mind is not clouded. My ideas flow better and I am more creative and interested in life again.
Nailed it.
I'm a 35-year-old woman from Brazil, and I was talking to a friend about how the world has changed since covid. That's why I'm commenting here. It's good to know that people from other countries also feel the same. Much love to you all❤
I'm 34 from America. Much love to you
I'm 38 and from China. married and two kids. our family is happy but the world is crazy. it's difficult to describe my people, I feel most of them are like machines with no brains. moms only care about the school grades, men only care about making money, and young women only want to become more slim and beautiful. sure some people think deeply, but a few of them do. because the whole society is racing, people have no space to breathe. the terrible part of it is that most people are no numb, I wouldn't say I like it here. but it seems all of the places are the same. @@josiahamaze
47 from Canada. I’m so happy to see that I am not alone with these thoughts. It has been a strange trip.
I'm 57 from England & I agree with you. COVID was a game changer. Since then the World appears a more sinister place with governments passing laws that nobody voted for.
Is just that you all noticed it changed with covid because it affected everyone, but it goes back, in my personal case i started to feel the world is changing since arab spring, and maybe other people before.
No one has any boundaries, respect, kindness, honesty, sincerity. People don;t solve problems, think, care, pay attention to anything important. It's depressing.
You must have forgotten about the fun World War One and Two were. You must have forgotten about medical care in the Middle Ages., slavery and famines… yes! The world was so much better in the good old days LOL
Wake up! We have never had it so good!!
Yes. 😔
They just demand respect while disrespecting you!
Boom and we are the chosen ones this is why we are all here in the comments . 13:17 . We need to establish our groups on social media and make it a safe place for us . If you’re here you’re not here for nothing you came across this video because you’re seeking answers we are all one
Some of us possess and respect these things but yes many do not. Common decency is lacking. I think the internet, hyper capitalism, smart phones, social media, 24/7 news cycle and up coming election coming is tapping us all out. Giving us a feeling of not really wanting to die but if we did it would be ok. Sounds weird but true for me at least. There is also this collective feeling that things are bubbling to the surface.
I'm 18 and I feel like I'm trying be an adult in a world I don't recognise from when I was a child. I feel like I've been robbed of any stability in my life and forced into an unnatural way of life. Everyone seems to be sitting around waiting for the Internet to fail so we can go back to real life.
Good news. Kinda?? Your brain doesnt fully mature until age 25 so dont worry if you dont feel like youre being an adult yet
Yup
Everything you do matters. Take life day by day, set goals for yourself and understand that you have a whole lifetime of things to learn. I've always felt the same way you do, but no one ever got anywhere by going nowhere.
Gg, new adult gang in an unknown world lets goo
Same
I feel like I have literally slipped into a parallel universe.
Things have been getting weird since about 2019 but, since covid, I feel like I’m living in a bad sci fi movie.
Not just you, bro.
Exactly...you can feel it in the air. Something is just off and different. It started when governments forced lockdowns... something shifted.
Exactly as that
That's how I've felt for the past year or two. Something truly feels like it's coming, and probably not for the better. Jokingly, or half jokingly, I read an article about the hadron collider creating a parallel universe according to some conspiracy theorists. But the way things have been, it doesn't feel that far from the truth.
I’ve had that feeling since about 2012 or so
Same but I started feeling that way since 2008...
Even though I felt that way in 2008, things got really weird at 2016, ever since that year; everyone and their little dog too have been flipping out like crazed banshee apes over the smallest things, not to mention that humanity has become FAR more ignorant than usual, it's as if something was controlling them, devolving them; perhaps devolving them back into monkies?
It's as if a demon was taking them over or something...
Demon: Lets make mankind monkey again! YEA great idea! it will makes it easier to enslave/ WIPE EM OUT! YA!!!
Really comforting reading some of these comments. 🖤
For me, everything just feels so soulless now. So many humans, so little humanity.
All by design
Yes the conclusion of materialist atheism.
@@arnoldvezbon6131exactly, too many humans have strayed from the teachings of Allah
@@rmg2160 alah has no teachings and his messenger married a 9 year old.
I feel like since the pandemic people are crazy or just plain rude. People are burned out and everyone has been stuck in their own bubble. I'm at the point that meeting people is terrifying. You don't know if you'll be a normal person or some guy yelling at you for no reason.
Move to a small town… it’s less harsh
So true. I find being at home with my pets is my preferred place a lot of the time.
@@notinamerica_911 Same here.
So true its like this in schools too
Social medias
Industry
Corporations
Are the ones to blame
That whole lockdown business was nothing but an exercise in controlling the population.
I’m a Gen Zer and I absolutely hate the direction this world is taking. Social media is the main culprit for the current crisis in loneliness, depression, anxiety, and lack of social interaction. We were told that our phones would bring us more together as a society, all it’s done is divided us more than ever before.
iPhones have helped to expose the deep divide between the haves and have nots. That has contributed to the depression and other mental health issues.
Yep.
As far as electronics goes in being complicit in all this...there was/is always the 'off' button but who ever uses it? Since the word 'no' has been demonized and made taboo in todays society, we get what we have now.
I truly feel bad for GenZ and GenA. You guys are growing up in a very, very corrupt world that is more divided than I have ever seen in my life (33yo).
In the 90s, adults were very concerned about 'the children' and what we saw/heard/felt. It feels like that is completely gone - no one cares about the children and they are growing up in a world that most adults are blind to. Similar to any generation of young people, but never with social media.
It's scary to see how little families are raising and teaching children ethics and life skills - I'm a teacher and the lack of accountability at-home is pushing me out of the profession.
I wish GenZ and GenA the best of luck with finding happiness, a loyal spouse, financial security, and peace in a time of horrific strife.
There is something sinister about following the crowd nowdays - think for yourself and do what makes YOU happy.
Absolutely! I am gen X., and game of age during grunge and rage against the machine. Where people were still putting up a fight against the corruption and evil in the world, At the very least naming it and talking about it. I have a daughter now and it's 1 of my primary objectives is spending time with her talking to her Helping her to see and understand the world and all it's complexity. Especially the way that somebody people are just sleep walking through life command that you don't have to do that. We all have a choice but it makes a big difference but our parents do
Or don't do!
Thanks for being a teacher and giving back come on what a wonderful Career choice but imagine incredibly frustrating in a lot of ways to.
I was born in the 70’s grew up in the ’80s. The ’90s were good. The world was so different it's hard to explain to someone who never experienced it. We're never going back to those times; I'm just happy I could live it.
I'm honestly jealous I came in hot in 1997. I wish I was alive in 1990 at least to get the full experience of the 90s 😔
I’m the same, born in 1970 and I appreciate your perspective but I actually think the current generation are remarkable precisely because of the knowledge revolution that technology has ushered in, in many aspects there’s a pronounced decrease in ignorance compared with my generation.
@@damien4061 Decreased ignorance but decreased self awareness?
@@bscott9141 Some people didn't have a good time in the 90s so lets take off the rose colored glasses of nostalgia. But yes things were different. People were poorer, bored and ignorant. So bored you would gladly walk down the street hoping someone was outside so we could alleviate the drudgery. Loneliness was amplified because we couldn't jump online and instantly have 2 billion stranglers to interact with. But there was something nice about there being no digital world.
How tragic is it that the successor generations can only vicariously have a frame of reference for 90s life!!!
Everything actually has changed, since 2019 nothing feels real anymore.
I feel less panicked now seeing that so many other people feel this way
I resent being a young adult in Generation Z. I know I missed out on so much that happened before me. Nobody wants to be compassionate and personal, anymore. If you say one thing they don’t like, they block you forever. There’s too much impatience. There’s too much social media. There’s too much of everything.
The world has always been like this. Actually it was way worse in the past. Hell, Women didn't even have equal rights until as early as 60 years ago and segregation was in place lol. The world is the best now than it ever has been. Yet people chirp your same sentiment every.single.year. people were saying the same thing in the 80's, 90's, 2000's. I'm tired of hearing this nonsense
Honestly, people are more compassionate now than when I was growing up in the late 80's- early 90's. The past is romanticized. It was a fun time, lots of freedom yes. But there was just as much poverty. Pettiness and cruelty were very prevalent in schools, most bullying was physical violence and the victim was told to stop being a wuss and fight back. Don't get me wrong, I miss those times when gas was 25cents and $10 was a LOT of money, we could go anywhere as long as we were home by dark. But no time is perfect.
No way guys. Nobody gives a f@ck about anybody anymore
@@leolapennington264 Honey, thats fake compassion. People give as much care as long as you dont say something that angers them. Always was and always will be. Also pettiness and cruelty is still prevalent in schools, including bullying and physical violence, even worse now since younger generations have far more freedom to misbehave towards teachers and other kids than before because leeway laws protect them from punishment.
We are living in the endtimes. Mark of beast system is here. Obama will be back on the world stage as the one world govt system aka antichrist alongside pope francis. Jesus christ is coming back for the rapture. Get ready. Unprecedented times coming ahead
I'm 65 and feel like the world has turned against me. People are generally just uncommonly rude. I can't even strike up a conversation with a fellow shopper in the grocery store. They act as if I am a crazy old lady. Everyone is glued to their cell phones. They share very personal information about themselves on social media. I just don't understand 😞
I think it depends where you live. I'm 72 and live in a small village in Tasmania, Australia. When i take my dog for a walk, I offen meet between 5 and 10 people who all stop and talk young and old. I go to the city about 3 times a week and most people over 40 will strike up a conversation but most under 40 all have their ear buds in or are glued to their phones. I think there will be more very lonely people in 30 years time than now as they lose the face to face skills. Hope you have a good 2023🙂
Your not alone it's epidemic.🙏
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve noticed this and become even more welcoming and helpful to my surrounding elders than I already was. I fear it has to do with how these younger generations are raised. Most of them throw cell phones or iPads at their kids so they can stay distracted. It’s incredibly sad what our world has become.
@@dustingre8 tell me about it!
my sister’s friend, last Christmas Eve, enters the house, doesn’t even say hello, drops her toddler off for the 8 year old kids to handle, then lies down on the trampoline currently being built outside, half taking selfies with her phone and half bragging about her new hairstyle!
needless to say, I slapped her in the face and told her to leave - now she’s ‘never coming over to visit’ because I was ‘disrespectful’… I’m half her age, and even I know what respect looks like.
I'm 40 but I also feel the same way. Yes I also love my phone, tablet, and desktop very much but I've made it a personal habit to never use my phone in public other than to check information necessary to what I'm doing ig: directions, what to buy. For safety I think one should always be aware of their surroundings and being on a phone is a greta way to get killed by a multitude of things.
My other observation was how at a family gathering my older relatives in their 50's+ sit around and talk while off to the side all of our 18 and unders sit in a group all on their phones.
I made the remark to someone how are these gatherings going to look in 20-30 years when they all are in charge? Will there even be gatherings anymore?
It definitely feels different. The tension is building.
I'm a 35 year old Chinese man. For me, the best years of my life would be between 2000 and 2010. I'm just waiting for the Internet to fail man. And kick some AI ass!!
I’m 19, an i can safely say that everything has slowly been feeling more and more off since about 2016-2017. Especially in the past 2 years, it feels like the an entirely new universe that we live in, but still vaguely and eerily similar.
I’m 36, and I feel like your 19 years were lived in an entirely different universe than my first 19 years. It’s wild.
@@tifKh No doubt. I was born after the turn of the millennia. I was using a desktop computer to play games and connect with others from the age of 5 onward. Some of my best childhood memories are in an xbox 360 party playing games with my friends from school and others from half way across the planet. It's insane.
2016 was a pivotal year, it was also a year when we lost sooo many celebrated people
@@tifKh being 23 i barely seen and felt what it was like to live in 2005-2006. And the general atmosphere was so much more different. It feels like everything back then was just a weird dream of a hopefull world looking back on it.
You are just growing up, Cole. I wouldn't put too much stock into year-to-year comparisons before age 33, because you yourself will change so much that it will obscure the way the world changes. This is why there are almost zero writers below the age of 33 who write anything profound, and few even who are younger than 40. You can't see the reality yet.
I'm 33 years old and yes, I feel like this society has a weird vibe and a lack of hope that is just sad, especially when I look at the younger generations. It's a mess
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. All you losers were just raised to be weak. Generation under you will crush you.
"First time?"
@@andrewryan8507 That'sss life! Welcome to planet erf
@@andrewryan8507 what do you mean?
@@andrewryan8507 yeah, I get it from a business/career standpoint, but my point is more oriented toward culture, and modern society
I wish I could just go anywhere in public and just ... small talk. Have a spotaneous moment of shared connection, experience, emotion with a complete stranger. I'm so damn tired of feeling like my life is an assembly line of blue screens- going from my smartphone to my computer for work, going to a public place and seeing every single person with their eyes glued to a screen, then to hanging out with friends all watching Tiktok or whatever else.
It's just so maddening. How can anyone have hope for the future in this world?
Exactly!!!
maybe focus on seeking truth, beauty, health, joy, simplicity, and the positive aspects of life 🙏🏽💚🙌🏽
love ya, my friend 😘
Try one of the southern countries in Western Europe. You’ll get that
yes and if you’re in the United states, try Colorado 🙌🏽 people are nice and kind.. and pretty social
We are all addicted to our phones. We need to get off of them and start living life and start listening to all these could be and maybes. You have no control over what’s gonna happen so just live your life all you have it. Stop being afraid of everything.
I was house sitting for my parents recently and sitting on the back porch where I grew up. An overwhelming feeling of sadness came over me when thinking about the beautiful childhood I experienced there. I was born in 1993 and didn’t have a smart phone or social media until late high school. I am the last generation to grow up without these things. I realized that I will never get to experience the absolutely marvelous times I had in that backyard - not because I’m an adult and can’t relive childhood, but because the world I grew up in will never exist again. We have lost something we never knew we had. I am so grateful that I got to be here before the 2010’s, when it seems everything went wrong.
I feel horrible, seriously horrible, for kids growing up post social media. They never got to live like I did and I showed up just in time to enjoy the last wonderful bits of the 20th century.
Nostalgia just doesn’t feel like the right word to describe my longing for a different time.
I share the same feelings of loss, you said it beautifully, and I've been struggling to make sense of it, It's helpful to know that others are feeling it too
I was born in '92 and similar to you i also didnt get my first cell phone until late high school. Growing up i climbed trees and road bikes and played kickball with the kids in the neighborhood. I didnt start using the internet religiously until around high school too. Glad i was able to experience things like that during that era before there was this drastic shift
I’ll drive around the places I grew up and remember being outside all the time. Now it’s like people don’t even exist because you never see them.
Seriously? Give me a break.
“Woe is me the world sucks now because of the internet”
What you remember is a different feeling than what you experienced.
In 10 years from now you will be complaint how bad the world is and how much better it was 10 years ago when the fact is you were just younger and more vibrant 10 years ago and could enjoy that feeling more thoroughly, and now those feelings are harder to find because your hire ones aren’t racing anymore.
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My brother and I had this realization in our early teens around 2012. Nothing off was happening at the moment, in fact, we were on the swing set in the park and it was a beautiful day.
I asked him: "Doesn't it feel like the world might end in our lifetime?" And we talked about whether or not we would get a chance to fully live out our lives like our parents. If any of it mattered. That feeling never went away. I can distract myself by getting a degree and pursuing a career in my field, but there's that lurking feeling that almost feels like a survival instinct, something like a deer in headlights. If I dwell on it for too long, it tends to eclipse my hopes and dreams. It makes me feel so small, insignificant, and fragile like whatever is coming will squash me like a bug.
i've always sort of felt that way too. like i could never picture myself as an old person
my mom thought the same thing when she was young, and so did my grandma. it's nothing new. everyone thinks their generation is the beginning and end of all things.
What your feeling is the realization of your own mortality.
When I lived at my parents house the backyard had a crick and woods on the other side. When we first moved there the trees were all green and taken care of. Since we moved the trees in the woods have mostly died off and became overgrown. About a year before covid happened I would look at the woods and started getting this overwhelming feeling that something was coming, just didn't know what it was. Then when covid hit, everything changed and I realized that was what I felt coming. Since then I always feel uneasy and as I learn more about the stuff going on today.
@@TSMSnation I wonder how the psychology behind this shared experience works, it's interesting to think about imo 🤔
Anyone else feel like the internet was Pandora’s box?
It absolutely was! I remember in 1996 using it for the first time. It was remarkable at the time. Now I hate it…
Absolutely.. it is hijacked people's brains, souls, lives.
Yep. So much, that I'm sure historians will divide times as pre internet and post internet (even though to most, especially growing up, it just seemed/ felt like inevitable progress)
Many complex ways to describe it, but take dating for instance. Before internet, it was acceptable to hit on/ flirt with people in person, commonly met someone you could settle down with at a party or other function. Now there's online dating- which in theory Seems would solve many issues of people being misunderstood, but actually it makes things worse. Women use it to find their ideal partner (top 5- 20% of guys with traits or qualities they most desire), Not any ol average guy (not always/ there can be exceptions, but in general). I'm not saying traditional American dream is the only or even ideal way to he fulfilled or happy in life, just that in the long run the internet made life infinitely more complex, dumbed down on average, and isolated actually. Too much convenience and distractions. Being bored has benefits
Yes and the Pandora's box within the Pandora's box is the iphone. Destroyed communication. No one talks to anyone in the supermarket or in the coffee shop. Very sad.
Without a doubt. I'm 28 and I've felt for years that we took something that held great potential and misused it. Now we're seeing the consequences of that through an endless news cycle and information overload which our brains are suffocating from, interpersonal and self-esteem issues, bullying and this expectation to prove our worth. It has been a great tool in raising awareness for various movements and inequalities, as well as assisting us with education. But it just feels like we are so detached from who we once were as a society, the sense of community as deteriorated.
I'm 43 this year & since COVID, the world changed and it changed me. It's made me cold because others become cold, I got damaged from life and now I can't unsee life as different & lonely
One issue is the world in general nowadays seems somehow more "empty". Like you can go out, but there's nothing interesting. (And I live in a huge city). One possible explanation for this feeling is that over time, technology has made it so there's less and less reason to ever leave the house. When I was a young teenager, I used to go to the mall to play video games at the arcade. Then arcades disappeared. Then malls started disappearing. Video rental disappeared. Movie theaters are still around... barely. Amazon makes it unnecessary to go out and buy all sorts of things. Nowadays you don't even need to leave the house to get groceries in some areas. The combined effect of this is that there's very little reason to leave the house, making the world feel kind of empty and uninteresting. And I already felt this way before Covid. Once Covid happened, the effect was multiplied by 1000.
At lEaSt iT's GoOdeR FoR tHe EnvIronMeNt
I think you hit the nail on the head ! Your words are so true
I gotta be honest with you man. Your first sentence is essentially just you describing depression. Not to be that guy, but have you spoken with a therapist? Because that sentence is a dead giveaway, nothing seems enjoyable or interesting to you, and the world is empty.
Goes to show that amazon is evil. It took the incentive away for people to interact. Same with social media. If our leaders cared about our wellbeing, they would regulate and ban things that atomize us, but that isn't the case.
This is only in US and Canada tho
It's so validating to hear someone say this out loud. I feel so detached lately and like I'm living in some sort of fever dream.
ily , same.
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Same! The world has just not felt right with me since 2019
Feels like we're trapped in a communist dystopia in a Twilight Zone episode. Only happy thoughts less we're sent to the corn field.
Exactly how I’ve felt all Christmas!
I am 60 yr old , and this is most likely the most intelligent conversation I have had the chance to hear in my lifetime. very smart young man. not in experience but in thirst for truth and knowledge.
I’m 49 and feel deeply depressed with myself, it’s very scary as I’m just barely holding on
There's a lot of us in the same boat. Don't let it get you down. If you look away from all of the shit now and again, the world is still a beautiful place.
@@georgemoskal2098 It’s more my own thoughts and things that bother me rather than what’s going on in the world but I get your point. The world can be a great place. Depression makes things difficult to see things clearly
Yes, I know.
Go within. Find your soul's voice. Express it. That's all we need to do.
@@pdiseris im not sure how to do that?
Imagine if you grew up in the 1960's and 70's like I did. The world feels like it's been turned upside down and inside out. I am amazed, bewildered, aghast, and in a state of disbelief at what has happened. It's almost like a bad dream that bled into real life.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and even I'm like...wtf??? Especially in the past 5-10 years. It really seems like every person I meet is either totally stupid or totally fake, or both. at 45 I'm about as young a person as you can find who grew up without the internet. truly horrifying...iddinit?
Absolutely! My dad was born in the 50s come and I was born in 1978. And when I tried to have conversations with him about the state of the world, most of my life He is he He is oblivious and in denial about what's going on and a horror show of it all appear. When you grew up with they leave it to beaver and mentality, and everything was going good and there were still trustworthy politicians, and America was actually trying to make the world a better place too on some level instead of just consuming last dollar and Calorie of energy - It's just hard to conceive everything that's gone so horribly wrong, Even when you see happening right in front of your face!
Christisn, not fake, and we do think that it is more than a coincidence that so much that we see matches Bible prophecy. And no, theres no cold-blooded cosmic wheel demanding its cyclical Malthusian moment. Those are human people with willful mass murder in their hearts, which is heartsickeningly sad, yet the bigshots are grinning, ever more ruthless. And in the Bible, Jesus says that if He did not return when He does, no life would be left on earth. At this time in history, I can believe that.
I grew up in the 60's and i agree.
@@aarongaffney725 Biden seems pretty trustworthy tbh. But then he is a politician of that 60s/70s vintage.
2015 to now feels like a completely different universe than the one I grew up in. It feels like we’re all stuck on a ride & we’re just waiting and hoping we will get off of it soon. Like everything we experience is not really organic , it’s just like a manufactured amusement with no real meaning behind it , just like part of the ride. That’s like 80% of our lives now. Just that feeling.
this.
THIS!
Kinda like a filler episode!
I had that same thought! Like everything is part of a “life experience package” you could get from an existential travel agent.
what do we do?
the world was good until 2015... now feels extramely boring, nothing new, everything is made vaguely (music, movies, TV shows, animation) nothing feels worthy to watch or listen to, yet we consume and consume cause we need it but we feel empty, bored, depressed. and the sad part is that even though we make an effort to enjoy things, nothing is enjoyable because of the reasons I mentioned before.
“A war is coming Ned. I don’t know when, and I don’t know who we’ll be fighting…but it’s coming.”
-King Robert Baratheon, A Game Of Thrones
I'm 26. Everything feels wrong, and I can't explain it. It's like this ongoing existential loneliness and constant anxiety. I don't know what I'm doing, where I'm going, who my friends are, etc.
I'm not unhappy, just unsettled.
Alright Jodi, where are we meeting for our first date?
"I'm 26. [describes being 26]"
It's a quarter life crisis. In your 30s - things will settle and be more meaningful, if you make the right choices.
This is intentional. The media wants you to feel this. Find people that are not nuts. Stick together.
I have one recommendation. Delete all social media, use your phone for only what it is. Actually do it, nobody really follows through. Technology has such a deep bite into society.
What's happening is that we have lost touch with our "natural" selves . The solution is to get out into nature and off your device.
I just spent 7 months in my camper living in state and national parks, and it was not only exhilarating. It was the most liberating thing I've ever done. I got home and was immediately depressed. Putting my house for sale and going to do it again.
Amazing. We are going to rent our house out and live on a small sailboat and be barefoot all day in the sun. Van life was amazing, on to the next adventure.
bruh they literally made a human save for 40 years to buy a house or a flat when you can build it yourself in no time, this whole thing is faaaaake, think about it
@@gingersnap7202 I know this probably wasn't meant to be a joke, but this comment genuinely made me laugh out loud.
So then, as they say, you will have nothing and be happy.
True enough; nature is our only reality. We are not wired to cope with AI, social media and big tech. They are the source of the modern day plague. They do what alcohol did to Native Americans; they act as solvents that dissolve a civilization.
I'm 25 and I feel so lost. I don't like the world I live in. Everything valuable lost it's charm and respect. Everything is corrupted. There's no more truth or honesty in the present world and it only gets worse. And mostly, everyone is getting influenced to become greedy and jealous. Elders, doctors aren't respected. Actors and liars are held high in the society. I'm truly afraid.
I feel the same...as brave as I force myself to be when moving out in the world on a daily basis, I am really truly scared of what I see, experience and feel.
Gotta learn how to ignore and live peacefully
Trust Jesus. You will not fear.
Wait until you learn that so many scientists are actors. So much science is made up, but showed over and over again on all channels until its taken as truth.
Lol
Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, ide Amin, Saddam Hussein. Shall I go on?
The world has always had badness but the beauty still outshines. Lighten up and smile for Christ sake! More folks will smile back…. 2:02
I feel like everyone hates their lives but are so afraid of real change that we settle with what we’ve got.
I saw a video of a WW2 veteran crying because he's sad that the world today isn't what him and his boys fought for, and he said he felt sorry for the younger generation because we will never experience the joys of life that he did, despite him fighting in one of the bloodiest wars in recent history. That's enough for me to know something isn't right. (I'm not quoting him word for word so some of the information might be wrong, sorry)
Where can we find the video?
I've seen this. I'm currently serving and it hurts
It wasn't just one of the bloodiest wars, it was THE bloodiest war in history
@Theonlyoneleft1000 Exactly! The Soviet Union alone lost about 20 million people to the Nazi Germany! They took Berlin but paid the highest price of all countries who were fighting Germany.
@@travismiller8185 I'm not American but thank you for your service, I hope you never have to do any real fighting because honestly we've all had enough of it except for a malicious minority.
What’s happening is that we lost our way as a society, and we know it. And now that the world we live in does not reflect us anymore, we feel uncomfortable. We cringe at beautiful things, at love, we have become cynical and numb by the countless atrocities we hear and see on the internet and in the media. We are disconnected from ourselves. I totally relate to this feeling and I am extremely privileged, self conscious, and I have nothing to complain about, yet I know I have lost myself in the last 10 years that I lived, through a screen for most of my awake time. My attention span is so low I cannot delve deep into anything. I’m too impatient to start a 2h film yet I will find myself scrolling through countless apps for 3 hours instead. What changed is mostly what we do of our time. We know we’re wasting it all away while the world is crumbling down and needs us to act, to change, to be the best version of ourselves to face the challenges ahead. Yet here we are. Procrastinating, in fear, powerless, in denial. Completely connected, yet totally disconnected.
Put perfectly
100 percent true
yup meanwhile, the ones who want selfish power and greed are being voted away to the top… a shame
Perfectly put.
I feel like we are so used to staring at screen all day that we dont take any kind of responsibility over the society anymore.
We just want to keep getting entertained by this black rectangle
yes, it’s shocking that we cringe to love
As a society we have been getting desensitized and demoralized. I think we can all see more and more evil walking the streets in the cities, evil behind the steering wheels, and evil all around us. Something’s gotta give hopefully sooner than later.
I’m 36 years old and live in America. I don’t know a single person who isn’t depressed and just waiting for whatever stupid event the people running the world have in store for us this year. But maybe this is where we unite. We unite over the shared sorrow for the loss of our countries and of our dreams. For the last 10 or so years I have always wished I had some sort of social influence to start uniting everyone and unraveling the hate that our governments have forced on us.
I’m 34 and I’ve never felt more disconnected from my family and friends than ever before. I look at the news and my surroundings and I see how impatient people are with one another. I literally see and feel the love being sucked out of society, if that makes any sense. I’ve cried many times at this realization on my way home from work some nights….I yearn for the past.
Your comment resonates with me so much, and we're almost the same age. Can't be a coincidence. The world is definitely heading in the wrong direction. If we can't even connect to our mother/father and best friends, what else is left? This either culminates in a huge transformation or a huge disaster. I'm still clinging to the hope it will be the former.
After winter comes spring. We're in late autumn or early winter now. I think.
Yes, its so true:(
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@nvmffs i dunno I connect just fine? I think growing poverty (our billionnaire overlords squeezing us to death) makes us impatient and preoccupied with surviving. Having said that social media is a cancer and harms social skills for sure. But we can practice those at least
It really does feel like something dark is looming. Days and nights just blend into each other now, and nothing feels real anymore.
There is a weird eerie undertone! I’m so glad that other people feel it. I thought it was just me 😢
Exactly how I feel, like days and nights blend into each other
Because life isnt real
@@Augfordpdoggie life is real, but time is becoming faster than before.. this was prophesized in my religion that towards the end of the world when innocent people will be harmed for no reason then time will pass faster.
@@blondie9422 Not just you. And I thought it was just me. I just finished posting something about it and this the first video I see when I open the UA-cam app.
The 80's and 90's were unique decades. From about 2000 onward we've been trapped in a rut
I agree I'm so grateful being able to live through the 80s and 90s ❤
I think the 2000s were good to (I was born in 2003 though). I feel the rot started in 2016 0 the Early 2010s still had good music and modest tech usage and social media was nowhere as toxic as it is nowerdays
I am STARVING for anyone to speak with on the matter. The isolation is unreal and ALL the people i knew are not talking... something stranger than any are speaking on IS HAPPENING...
it is the end of the age!
Everything feels shallow and I 100% blame social media. It’s more dystopian than most care to admit. I got off about 3 months ago and am loving it but there’s only so much that can change when most people around you are still engulfed in the virtual. I want people to start talking to each other and connecting again. That’s what it means to be human & the only real thing that makes life worthwhile in my opinion: our relationships, helping others & the connections we make.
I only use social media to look at hobbies, and it really changed things up for me. Algorithms actually promoted healthier content, and I never felt sucked in or I cannot put it down.
It’s not social media. It’s people who have just gotten stupider. People who think they don’t have to be accountable for anything. It’s a sense of arrogance and entitlement that has arisen, some say it’s the new generation, gen Z or the 2000s babies, but it’s more the generation before that has raised this generation to be so entitled and to not have to be accountable. It’s that attitude of “do whatever you want to get what you want” attitude, people think it’s a good attitude to have, to be so determined, to be so “driven”, but it’s not, it’s created an immense lack of accountable and responsibility and literally gave the new generation the approval to do whatever they want and this degradation of society we are seeing is the direct result.
@@monophthalmus3254 Then, you're part of 'persona' that people in Bytedance (Tiktok) or Meta don't really target because you know how to maintain the information input.
The other 'persona'? Not so much. They're heavily targeted by the algorithms because while they might appear as a younger generation, they don't understand how to maintain and control the amount of information that the apps tried to impose to them.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 You blame the past Generation for the outcome of this current Generation, and their issues/problems, when it's actually society, the Government, the school systems, and anyone in control/in charge, that has created the problem/issue with the current Generation. If what you said were true, then there would not be parents showing up at school board meetings, protesting what is being taught to their children, and the constant brain washing and indoctrination that is occurring there. Everyone wants to blame the past Generation for everything, when it all happens within the Government and school systems, and then rolls down to the children. It is those wackos that are letting other sick minded people throw drag shows in schools... So no, parents are not passing on ignorant mess from the last Generation, it is the confused people in charge currently that is passing on, and letting garbage, be passed on...most of the time, without the authorization from/by their own parents.
@@mikevogler5455 an emphatic YES. Through the previous generation's, ie baby boomers for instance, and people born in 70s and early 80s, their mishandling of things, not taking care of environment for instance, not making good judgement calls, etc. Look at how the generation before those born in the late 80s and 90s and early 2000s, have been running things in government, who they've voted into positions of power, even how they reacted to COVID mandates and the entitlement and lack of accountability they've been instilling in their kids about the pandemic, promoting antivax nonsense, promoting antimask BS, look at how these Republicans born in the 50s 60s and 70s are behaving right now. Laws that go against gay rights, women's rights, etc, all the progress we've made is being slowly reversed. And all of this reflects not taking accountability, having an attitude of entitlement, not caring about other people, not taking responsibility, etc, stemming from how Trump ran America. His presidency and the boomers and the generation that voted for him and support him, and participate in riots and storming the Capitol, etc, people like that are causing this degradation of society and why so many are feeling this sense of doom on the horizon. And there's that do whatever you want to get what you want attitude promoted toward young people by older generations, so many of these factors have screwed up society for this generation and this generations' kids.
I’m 50, female, one adult child. I’ve never seen the world like this. It feels like the end. I cry a lot about it because it’s so sad. It was never this way. It feels like it’s all over. I’ve never felt this way in my life but the last five years…. All I can say as someone who is older is find a balance between fighting back and really living every minute you can. Buying stuff, consuming, it won’t help you. Connect with people in real life, get outside, reject cashless society, reject automated services, reject AI. Don’t be going to concerts with hologram performers, get off internet dating and go and meet people in real life, get off Instagram, forget Dubai, forget growing your glutes… go and fall in love face to face, hug and hold each other. Sit under a tree, dig a hole in the sand… hold hands. it’s all there is. It really is. We’re on the Titanic and we’ve already hit the iceberg. It’s too sad.
Pfft...
@@user-zt6pg5bz2lTruth can be confronting.
I know the feeling
We are approaching a climax in human consciousness. A climax is both together, a creation and destruction.
Thank you for you great inspirational words.
I am so sad and nostalgic for a time I didn’t even get to experience. I wish people connected more.
In 2021 I went to work up in North Quebec, only accessible by plane or train. While there, a dog stole my phone from the ground next to me. I gave chase and the dog dropped the phone, smashing the screen. It flickered for days, then it died it entirely. For about a week I was really bothered, I could not get it fixed up North. Then something happened... I remember sitting in the work truck as we drove through the Taiga, and feeling a great sense of peace; that feeling was being completely present in the moment. I admired the trees out of the window, the colour of the sky, it all felt... different. Wow what a feeling. Without the ability to reach for my phone I was forced to be in the moment all the time, it was brilliant; that's the feeling we're missing now. Smartphones have ruined our ability to be in the moment, be present, take joy from the little things. Our receptors are being redlined at all times with constant stimulation. We aren't meant to live like this. So, I went and lived out of my hatchback in the Kootenays, cooking all my meals on an open fire, waking up to the might of the sun, hauling wood from the forest to burn to keep me warm and cook my meals. This was living, I felt at peace, I felt complete. I love my Galaxy S10, but when it kicks the bucket I'm not getting another smartphone, they are pernicious; they are no good for us. We can go back to the feeling we've lost, I did - for a time.
Good for you - you have seen the light! Best wishes to you!
Several years ago I took a trip to Nicaragua and just decided - no phone or computer. It was bliss the whole time. I think what you're saying is true.
So true I think phones will cause the end for humans
~I’ve noticed feeling not only better, happier w/o the web -but what I really got was that I wasn’t Angry. All of the darkness was gone.
I'm probably going to start a flame war for being "that guy" but this needs to be said. My experience with technology is different. I create things. I'm constantly writing down story ideas and making charts. I compose music of many different genres. My computer is very similar to a library -- a library of my own ideas that are precious to me, which is why, back in 2021 when my hard drive died and I almost lost all of my data for good, I was devastated (I wasn't very tech savvy and didn't know how to back up files at the time).
But I wasn't devastated due to some obsession with the technology itself or addiction to "cat videos" ffs. I was devastated because my art was gone, ongoing projects I'd been working on for years. The sheer volume of it cannot be recreated from my memory (my memory is pretty terrible in general, which is part of why I write things down in the first place).
In the early 20th Century, it all would have been written down on pieces of paper (some of mine are). If J.R.R. Tolkien's house burned down with all of his writings inside it, we would consider that a tragedy because all of that work is gone. Yet when someone loses the same thing digitally, what that's a triumph simply because it's digital? No, it's the same thing. The technology is just the medium.
My primary concern about technology is dependence -- being too reliant on something I don't fully understand only for it to malfunction and for me to be lost. That's why as I advance in life I want to become more independent. I want my own micro power grid. I want my own private internet server. I want to decrease the amount of steps between fresh grown food and myself as much as possible. I want to learn how to do things. The more I know and the more I can do, the less I'll suffer when things break.
My secondary concern is physical safety. Too much exposure to EMF radiation can harm the brain and body, leading to things like insomnia. But to say technology is evil for that alone is pretty biased, since it's also harmful for your body to drink unfiltered water with cholera in it, something technology helped stop.
I'm sick and tired of people blaming technology for everything that's wrong with the world. 9 times out of 10 whenever someone complains about technology, it's usually something else that's the problem.
The most stressful things I encounter in my technology heavy life come from tension-filled social situations, mainly the news and media discourse. But this is because the discourse itself is so disheartening and stressful. It would be just as disheartening if it was people gossiping in a town square in 1807. It's not the technology. It's people.
I think the only reason losing your phone makes you feel "free" is because you lose a psychological obligation. Let me explain. Because so much happens every day, and because I have access to learning about it, I feel almost compelled to check the news or check the latest UA-cam video criticizing a movie. Why? Maybe I'm afraid I'll miss something. Maybe I can't feel relieved until I know there's no immediate bad news waiting for me that day. Thus, because I'm able to learn about these things, I feel obligated to update myself, and failing to meet this obligation is stressful because it feels like falling behind. Thus, when the ability is taken away, sure, it can be liberating since the responsibility is no longer yours, in your mind.
But this would all still be the case with NEWSPAPERS 30 years ago! If I was around back then, I would have had a similar mindset. People will always check things that are constantly updated. People feel compelled to check the weather because it might be dangerous. People are compelled to check the stock market because there might be a one in a million opportunity they don't want to miss.
All of these things might use technology, but the technology itself is not the object of the obsession or the stress. It is merely a medium, and the most recent medium at that. If Twitter existed in Ancient Greece, Socrates would have used it to preach philosophy. Our world is not that different from how it ever was, and if anything, the Turnings should prove that, rather than disprove it.
I'm all for spending a healthy amount of time outside or taking a healthy vacation from the pressures of work and life (which extend far beyond technology) but to oversimplify it as "phones are bad and they should stop existing" is very dangerous, because sometimes there is news you need to know, new laws and mandates that will wind you up in jail if you don't follow them, natural disasters that can devastate you if you're not prepared. Taking a break is fine as long as you're not sticking your head in the sand.
I'm 25 and agree with this video. On paper, I have a good life, good job good friends, nice apartment etc... but I'm constantly battling this feeling that we aren't living life the way it was meant to be. I continually try to do things like taking breaks from social media, stopping buying random shit, eating healthy, etc etc. but I keep finding myself slipping back into what everyone does because EVERYONE does it. I do feel that there is hope for the future however as I talk to more and more people about this I think we all kind of know that what we do isn't making us happy... I think the pendulum will swing and people will get back to living simpler lives the way we were intended to live.
My friend that is the result of the alienation we have due to capitalism read Marx’s theory of alienation
@@owengaul3226. The result of the alienation we have today is due to Karl Marx, not capitalism. Capitalism in its intended form is a tremendous system. However, crony capitalism has taken over, the system has been perverted to send all the money to the top, and the funds needed to sustain the apparatus of the system are not carried by the rich, but by the working class. What you see in America today is not capitalism. It is unbridled greed by the top one percent that control legislators, bureaucrats, and the economy in general. We have met the enemy, and he could be ours. But instead we turn our anger and frustration with the system against each other. We drink the Kool Aid of division, blame those who are not to blame, and become tribal, instead of practicing unity against a common enemy. The 99 percent all suffer the same folly every single day, as a DIRECT result of the mutation of capitalism through money in politics, rampant corruption in government (on BOTH” sides of the aisle, and our failure to bring victory through the only means possible. UNITY, against the true enemy.
Try to revisit the great outdoors. Get your hands dirty. Do something physical, like build something. Grow and pick your own food. These are the things that we no longer understand. We cannot live in a virtual world.
@@robertclark9 The "crony capitalism" you're seeing is the inevitable result of market competition. Pure deregulation only works in Ayn Rand books. In real life, unrestrained competition causes a selection process, and the game ends up looking like a Monopoly board; there is no other possible outcome at extremis, and this has nothing to do with Marx.
We ARE tribal, kid; it's in our nature, our evolutionary history. "UNITY against the true enemy" sounds precisely like "the Kool Aid of division" to me. Further, so does the false dichotomy you're creating between individualism and collectivism. Functionally, these two ideas are more like relative comparisons than actual systems. Think of them as being like up and down. They're theoretical ideals. No well-informed, rational person will endorse one of them to the other's exclusion.
One more thing. We're only alienated insofar as we allow. Nobody is stopping us from: doing work that we find satisfying, contributing to ideals that we find worthy, engaging with interesting people, or from pursuing love and meaningful relationships. Estrangement is also a misleading comparison, now being promoted by all the imaginary images we see on social media. Lower expectations → increased happiness.
@@yugecrazystick. Socialism doesn’t have to be done by the state, but it does have to be distributed by the state. If you call socialism throwing a bone to the less fortunate, which in turn becomes a way of life for many, to keep them from butchering their true enemies, yes I suppose. But that’s not socialism. That’s appeasement directed at self preservation, and the ability to continue gathering wealth.
Life has always been shitty, honestly not just since covid, growing up it was never easy.
Now we are just seeing the culmination of a society that has pushed down on people that had nothing but kindness and generosity in their hearts. This is what happens when people forget their connection to nature, to what’s real.
I’m reading a lot of the comments below, and have felt similar to everyone. I’m currently 27 and this video really hit home. I personally found that when I actually disconnect myself from my phone by not watching as many videos, not being on 4 different social medias, not consuming massive amounts of news allll day. That my life slowed down. The world became more clear. It didn’t feel as crazy or doom like. And even started to feel like it did 15 years ago. So for anyone feeling this way, give it a try, give your socials, news etc a break and move through the world differently. Our phones and access to information skew our perspective on reality. It’s not actually like that when we put the phone down.
I feel like everyone is just existing. Stressed, rushed, constantly looking at their phone and just on auto-pilot. Lots going to jobs they don’t like to make money to be alive. I’m 36 and the last 5 years have just been crap. I have gratitude for what I have and although my job doesn’t pay the best, I like it and it gets me by (vet nurse). I feel like phones and the internet have swallowed us whole, we are addicted and don’t know how to stop. So many people are rude and inconsiderate. Where is this world going? I constantly yearn for my childhood in the 90’s and early 2000’s 😥
I am becoming addicted to podcasts that seek to expose the torment we are being subjected to and I have become very intolerant towards anyone who does not hold the same views as I do.
I used to feel that way too. I was very liberal for awhile and then incredibly right-winged, like I literally listened to Matt Walsh and Candace Owens all the time. After spending times in both perspectives, like man in those days like I just had so much anger and like hate towards other people, literal hate.
I was mad everyday but like I came out of it and found that most people who I’ve met actually felt kind of in the middle too. It’s hard tho online with all the really extreme perspectives, people having no fear on here.
But honestly I can’t tell you how freeing it can be to get out of it. I KNOW you can do it but not on ur own.
For real, I honestly wouldn’t have thought to or been able to come out of my politics addiction had it not been for God. Like finally realizing he was actually there and actually cared when it felt like no one else did. internet addiction and isolation can leave a person (like me)with few contacts.
But there is a warmth and a non-judgmental God who seriously wants to help you. I swear, he DOES LOVE YOU.
He really does. And honestly when I actually gave him a chance, like it changed my life. I questioned Him, and I was willing to leave if this Christian thing wasn’t the truth. But honestly he answered my questions and didn’t hate me or get angered by them. He wants your questions, it’s ok to doubt. Like seriously.
But man just if u haven’t given Him, or God like a real chance ever, maybe you should consider it? I could help you if you want any resources or prayers 😊.
Look I know this world can feel really dark and it is a lot, not gonna lie. But he really is a hope in this world. He showed me that humanity still had some good in them or else why would he be trying to reach out to us and show us his love. He really can free you from all this anger or hate you may feel. He did for me, I know he can for you too.
I just hope maybe you’ll give it some thought, just a little.
I love you brother or fellow human. I wish you the best, I really hope things in your life get better.
If you ever want me to pray for u or if you’d be okay with me doing that, Please let me know? I would be more than happy too.
Take care
-Molly J.
@misskarinaleigh
I'm sorry, I know it's easy to feel hopeless and like this world sucks. It is so difficult sometimes.
Like I have days where it has been honestly, not gonna lie, pretty hard. Especially during pandemic. Like being super on my phone meant I really didn't have many friends or a lot of support and things got bad. I really felt like just consumed with fear and was just numb emotionally.
But genuinely I found someone who has always like been there and I just never knew it. He genuinely came into my life and showed care for me, like in a way no one in the internet or even in my life could fully do. He understood me and I didnt even have to explain it.
I know this world feels really dark and it can be really hard to cope with all the news we see and hear. But if there's anything I was able to learn from being a major internet-addict, it's that even when you feel angry, hurt,sad, isolate, or scared, there is someone always right beside you holding your hand who shares your concerns. He wants to listen to you. Whether you want to rant or cry or even scream, He IS there to listen.
He really cares about you miss Karina Leigh.
He knows your name and he loves you. Even if the world feels very gloomy and so dark and despairing, please know he wants to be there to shine a light and hope on you. We can only Bering light back to the world if people rediscover the light within them found in the one who gives us hope. This man literally gave everything out of love for humanity.
One of the greatest things anyone can do for another is be willing to die for them to save their life. That takes love to do. Jesus died for you willingly just like that, with that love.
He really loves you and I'm sensing I don't know how to describe it but I really feel him touching my heart with concern for you, wanting me to reach out to you. Your words stuck out to me.
Karina Leigh, he really wants to reach out to you. I can't describe just how much he loves you and wants to show you that love.
Have you ever considered God or if he loves you?
Because if not I really hope you do consider it. Maybe just think about it even if that's not today. I hope it settles somewhere or that you remember that he will always love you.
It's okay to question him, doubt is natural, healthy even. But I hope you know whenever you're ready even to just try, that he's there with open arms ready to receive you.
I wish nothing but the best for you girl,
With much love,
Molly James
P.S. Would it be alright if I prayed for you?
Thanks for your work as a vet nurse. My dog, my best friend, just passed away suddenly and I am so appreciative of the nurses who worked to make her final hours comfortable. Your work is so valuable.
Wow you took the words out of my mouth
I would say that, for me this past year has been incredibly hard in many ways personally. All sorts of realizations and epiphanies surrounding the status of society now and how unnatural and eerie everything seems to have gotten. I switched my Iphone with an old Nokia 2 months ago, in a leap of faith towards escaping the algorithms of our digital globalised world. As a 19 year old I see my generation incredibly damaged by this world, longing for meaning, uncertain of how to act, feel, talk and even think. This world is turning quickly, and no one seems to take notice. Glad you spoke up brother. Be safe.
Find your hope in Jesus, he loves you and will save you if you ask him. May God bless you.
It's caused by overwhelming bad debt
“I wish it need not happen in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
There is no binding culture, ritual, or tradition in the epicenter of technocratic environments. You get “subcultures”, but they are not putting their masts in the same wind direction so to speak, what drove technocratic times say 10-15 years ago was lower general adoption with a mix of morally friendly novelties and in general, being augmentative and hobby like. Now it’s symbiotic or parasitic. The Jungian shadow of what technology is now is not even subversive, but overtly collected data, pumping in machine learning for AI repositories…
And here forms a divergence, those that rather live with nature, wood stoves, livestock and some return to an actual culture and those who want to be waist deep into increasing digital novelty and VR and Amazon ordered funko-pops while streaming Phase 5 Marvel movies-a life akin to Demotion Man. Needless to say, you can’t force these extremes back together.
Yeah, no one is really teaching these things, it's expected for many to figure out on their own, and with this increase grab for attention these distractions has sunk so many people into low places, also making it much harder than before to get out.
Interactions with others have become more transactional and without meaning in a world that's already isolated
I'm feel the same my brother, the world is sick.
I'm 56, Gen X. If I could go back in time, I would. Food quality was better, you could pay your rent working one 40 hour job, television shows were better, films were better, people smiled more, dropped by the house because "I was in the neighborhood", answered the telephone blind (no caller ID), welcomed your new neighbors with a tuna casserole or a chocolate cake, had kids standing at your door asking permission for "insert child's name here" to come out and play, you and your friends sing (loudly) your favorite songs you heard on the radio, play your favorite vinyl album while reading a book or magazine, wonder if your should call that boy/girl you like, your dad or spouse taking everyone out to dinner at Ponderosa because he (or she) was given a promotion, planning your next vacation, crying because your now grown up child is engaged to be married, listening to insects, birds, the leaves rustle in the trees, while slapping away flies, mosquitos and bees.
This and more are just memories for me now. Today we are isolated, disengaged, hypercritical, and yet afraid to have an opinion about, well, anything. We shop online, communicate via emojis and memes, and realize we can't retire because everything is overpriced, over taxed, and out of reach. I'd rather go back and live through the cold war and Milli Vanilli than live through this now stifling existence. There are those that believe we are living in a simulation (since 2012?). If so, can someone hit the reset button?
Do you also miss acid rain and the ozone hole? Everything was soo much better in the 80s, what bs.You´re just having a midlife crisis.
Midlife crisis? Wow. I used to accuse people of that myself back in the day. No, I don't miss acid rain and the ozone hole issues. But what I do miss is people treating each other with a bit more respect. This world is far more messed up today than it was in the 80s or 90s. If I could go back as an adult to 1979 when Carter was still President, I would. Because 1980 wound up being a major turning point. I'll stop there. Turn down the negativity and turn up some positivity. Have a good day.@@prismarineslab
I feel it too. I talk about it often because it’s always on my mind. Families used to talk and love each other. Big, extended families. Good relationships. Now, families hardly talk. Everyone puts an opinion out into the world online and everyone else judges it. Everything is being judged by someone, somewhere.
I long for that 90s “yellow” sun, being outside, families and friends everywhere. Now it’s all garish white and tech.
Oh my god this is so true. Family reunions were, by far, more common in the past. My parents would hang out with their relatives every single week, sometimes every other day, just for the sake of spending time at home eating, playing cards, talking... Now I see my relatives only once in a while, and those who aren't dead already...
Also, in the 90s I'd play outside almost every day. My neighbourhood was full of kids in summer nights. My parents would stay inside or go for a walk, and we would be supervised by the elder siblings of my friends (who were only... 13, 14 perhaps??), they'd only get to us to call us back for dinner bed. Now, not a single kid at night in years, just deserted streets. I don't really see kids playing at night anywhere.
@@yos.5684 exactly!! I feel you, and I miss the same things ♥️
SOMEBODY ELSE REMEMBERS THE YELLOW SUN...THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME WHOS NOTICED
@@hopperstreams4487 yesss! It was so yellow and warm and comfy, like a home. Now it’s white and harsh and reminds me of a really hot hospital room.
Couldn’t agree more. The 90s was the last golden age. People actually did stuff back then. But now it’s all about putting your feet up and watching Netflix.
Im 66 and our society has literally changed overnight. I think back when I was 6 and I was literally outside ALL the time. Playing with friends, interacting with nature but simply playing with other kids. Never watched much TV. Much more human interaction. Our parents which were the Great Generation had the ability to buy a house, buy a car, send their kids to college all on the fathers salary. Mom could stay home and take care of the kids. Thats not possible today. Our personal friends have shrunk and as family units we are less stable. Thats what has happened. Most of us feel no hope…..I am too old to change the world. Hope some of you younger people will. Good Luck
I am 41 with a 18 months baby. Your words make me feel nostalgic and sad. I am very lucky to be stay at home mom and I take my son outside everyday. I know how important it is.
@@caribbean9829 my hope and prayer is that you and your family will change the world and bring it back to a sustainable world. Reading the Bible there is example after example of people seeing the errors of their fathers and mothers then returning to God and God in turn blessing them and their labors. Dont want to come off as a religious zealot but reading the Bible its part of History, literally His Story about our people turning away from God and reaping the worldwind. God bless you and your family
@@garyevans3051 I have been having in my heart the call of moving to a country side and we can do it since my husband can work from home. I think that will also help us. I am an agnostic person, but I believe the bible is a historical book. Thank you so much for your good thoughts for us.
That sounds like a fun childhood, it seems like the world really has changed, I know not everyone was happy back then but things seem simpler 10-20 years ago. I'm 16 and I rarely go outside because my neighborhoods dangerous and I can't go out alone, I'm usually alone at home and my family's pretty broken and Ive been feeling sad about it all but I still have hope
most Mum sand dads now both need to work.. some have double and triple jobs and still reply on gov money to survive, paying for cilcare, double taxation, its horrofic.
I'm 49 yrs old ,,, maybe I'm just getting old but it feels like we are spinning out of control and we are headed for a major ,,,idk,,,, something 🤔
I’ve been feeling this way for about 15yrs I’m 43 . Wonderful video please keep making more so. People would understand thanks
No one seems to acknowledge that it’s changed so dramatically. I’m in my 50s. I recently met a guy my age and we began talking about how just the phone has changed things completely. We reminisced about how things were. It was like the twilight zone.
Could you imagine if the world population collectively threw they're phones in the garbage. What would happen? I find this fantasy liberating and almost possible.
Just talking about the effects of the phone with a friend the other day. The Smart phone is the 2.0 of what TV did in the past. Remember the term couch potato? The difference is with the TV you would get off your couch and get out. The Smart Phone comes with you and creates a holographic social circle.... even the possibly getting paid using it. If you equate these 2 mediums to a drug. TV was Marijuana and Smart phone is Crack
@@ragoff yes. It’s the phone that has changed us. I love your vision. But then it is replaced by a darker vision where this action gets covertly promoted by Apple and Google, and everyone has to buy a new phone! 😮😂
@@sophieoshaughnessy9469 lol. or implant in the body. Its coming
I’m 41 and I totally agree..and add internet and then social media/online commerce later..
Speaking as a 22 year old, things have changed drastically for young people and what is expected of them, university isn’t what it is, jobs aren’t what they were, family isn’t and friendship isn’t. People are kind of shut off, I think our society is changing and it’s changing us too, the way we feel about things and each other. It’s really scary and sad as a young person to feel so uncertain about why life feels so weird when my parents don’t claim to have felt this same way at my age. Weird.
Exact same age, exact same thoughts
Ding ding ding …and I’m 20 LOL
I’m 23 and feel the same way man.
22 as well same feeling
25 same feeling
Very well put together. You had me hooked after 45 seconds. You have a genuine skill and talent I love the way you kept the filming minimal and l the clock in the background changing times helped me feel like we were in the same room having a conversation. Thank you for this. Love from NC brother.
I haven't recognized this world since September 11, 2001.
I'm 27 and last year I had this conversation with my best friend about how be both felt that there's going to be a massive shift in the next decade. Like it feels enormous and indeed lurking around the corner. As if everything we do right in this moment is just so insignificant compared to the events that are up ahead. Indeed like the world is holding in it's breath. Reading all these comments really makes me believe that we all have this collective natural instinct and maybe we are not that detached after all.
It’s not that hard to understand… many have been warning you about the new world order for many many years. But many people still don’t try to understand what that means or how we got here. People are afraid to hear the truth.
That's how I feel for almost a decade now. Like everything is so insignificant and trying t achieve something is a waste of time, since nothing will last. Really like something will happen "soon" that will make every effort put into anything before that event a waste of time and energy.
In my opinion, the next big shift is 100% going to be AI. Not the thinking conscious awareness type of AI, but AI that can do whatever you ask of it for you. Just look at these last few years where chatGPT and openAI and all these Ai that you can tell to create an image, artwork, novel, speech, anything, based on whatever specifications you want in the format you want, based on a specific genre or artist, and in 5 seconds it'll create something that never existed before that matches everything you've asked. It is in it's absolute infancy stage as of now, but even at this point it is extremely advanced and I believe people don't understand the implications of this new technology and how it will completely change everything for humanity and not in a good way.
Sure, you can make the argument that having AI do tedious work for us is a big plus. Removing physically demanding or dangerous labor from our soft limbs and putting them into the hands of hard metallic machines who will do all of it with insane precision and speed is a plus, as it is for the worker who loses their job to it because maybe they won't get cancer from inhaling toxic chemicals or fumes for years or mess up their back for the rest of their lives or get some other life changing injury. At the end of the day, that is better for the human being.
But what about every job becoming an AI only function? Do you think the company you work for(unless you own it yourself) wouldn't drop you and their entire work staff from top to bottom for just one or two AI that could do it all without sleeping or breaks or eating or any rest, just 24/7 perfect work with no vacation time or sick days being done faster than humanly possible? No need for coffee break rooms, renting buildings or facilities or buying paper towels and toilet paper, desks, computers, printers, etc. They'd save billions of dollars every year.
But now we arrive at our next problem, what will people do with all this free time? How will we make money? Will money even exist anymore? The company that is researching and creating physical robot AI systems is also heavily invested into research of a universal basic income system or UBI. They know what our future will be and they're trying to come up with a way for people to not be absolutely bored and miserable because they suddenly have no purpose in life. They don't need to work, they don't need to find a way to feed their families or pay rent, they don't need to learn any skills whatsoever because AI will do everything for us. No more driving, no more taking out the garbage, no more cooking your own food or shopping. It all sounds great until you realize that you will literally have no purpose or meaning in your life.
Have you ever been unable to find a job for longer than a week or been on an extended vacation? The first few days are fun and you think about all the fun you'll have while not being required to work everyday(at least for a lil while) and next thing you know, you're absolutely bored out of your mind, you look for any source of time wasting entertainment to keep you occupied to pass the days. This is why many retired people still continue to work, or why billionaires with enough money to buy another life for them and their families for generations still continue running their companies and making money. It isn't about money.
We as human beings, need work to feel meaning in our lives, to have purpose and whether you love your job or hate it, like it or not, it gives you purpose and fulfillment. Human beings need struggles to overcome, we need challenge, we need to overcome challenges and obstacles to feel like our lives have meaning. It's like playing a video game with all the cheat codes enabled the second you start, it's great for the first 30 minutes or so, but after that you immediately get bored and quit the game and move on. It's nice to have it all, but that isn't what gives our lives meaning. It's overcoming challenges, big or small, usually both. Human beings evolved to constantly be overcoming struggles, hunting for food or starve, then we got agriculture and we created jobs to fill that void, now what'll happen when we no longer need to worry about food nor overcoming any challenges because AI will do it all for us? Imagine every single person on earth suddenly doesn't have to work everyday. It'll be a big fun party for a week maximum.
It's like that rat utopia study, the rats were given a rat utopia to live in and they all died. They had no challenges, they had no desires. It was all over and they even stopped reproducing. Which brings us to another problem, what happens when AI dolls are completely fitted to be your perfect soulmate? I'm sure there will be some purists left after that living in some communes without AI at all, but just think about what humanity will look like once all this happens. That is the next phase of humanity. We will either merge with AI from neuralink, or we will merge with the internet and become a virtual society, like what Meta is trying to do. There simply won't be much else for humanity to do once we literally won't have anything to do. Do you remember when we were all stuck at home? Some worked sure but if you were one of the people who didn't I'm sure you can attest to exactly how that went down for you.
If I had to guess, once AI is running our lives for us, we will all move into a matrix like virtual world. Some may create their own world exactly how they want it, others will just jump into the new virtual world that's a copy of exactly how it used to be before AI. Our bodies will be tube fed and AI will massage our muscles so they don't atrophy and clean us and help us use the bathroom while we all live in our virtual worlds because that will be the only way humans can have some type of fulfillment in their lives post AI. It absolutely terrifies me but I am sure this is a feeling we all have been having for a while now. As AI technology expands and innovates, we will slowly merge into this new reality and there is nothing we can do about it but wait and see what our future holds. Hell, maybe that is exactly what our current reality is and we just don't know it. Maybe this is the end of the line for every society, technological advancement until eventual withdrawal into a virtual world. I hope I am 100% wrong but it sure doesn't seem that way with what's been happening these last few years. Time will tell but I hope humanity will keep it's humanity.
Everything you do is insignificant, but where you stand means everything. Its a matter of the heart...
@Marco Ramires Its already like that. I'm in my early 30s and I talk to some old friends we've all moved and life took us in different directions but we cant seem to find any meaningful connections or any meaning at all really in life like we used to have. I have some early teenage family and they are so hollow and soulless, not that they're bad people but the difference from my generation to theirs is astonishing.
A year since this video came out. Things are only getting worst as time moves on. War seems to be on the horizon everywhere. I'm Canadian and it just feels like the Western world is crumbling. Bit by bit everyday.
So what happens to other parts of the world?
@@railfandepotproductionsdomino effect
All by design.
@@jasintosamora5599 what are you yapping about?
@@railfandepotproductions You'll soon see. I apologize didn't mean to wake you from your sleep.
I’m 51 and I feel truly lost and alone, 30 years ago I felt so alive, I’m starting to think something is around the corner something big and we’re not prepared for it scary/weird times
I'm a hollow shell of my former self. For me, it started in 2017 not 2020. Everything from there was the point where it all got mediocre, bland, or just for show.
I think it's been true that no one cares personally for you, but now it's just right there in your face as clear as day.
People are walking as if they're droids that know everything about you because of social media training them to have preconceived notions about a stranger's life.
I wish I could go back to the early 2000's.
I’m 56, born in ‘66. Grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. Not only are things drastically changing, but it’s all intentional...and, it’s not good. I feel like I’m living in the Twilight Zone, a backwards world. We’re actually regressing in the name of progression.
You said it! Very dystopian in my opinion.
Me, too. 56. I cannot help but to think of all the crazy stuff we did back in the day that has thoroughly contributed to the current madness. It was ominous that the book "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was our graduation year. We read it and chuckled how 'off' it was. God have mercy on us, our parents and our children. Dad was right! Everything is accelerating at such a pace. There has been no "real progress", just the same things in a more, harder, faster way. Like the boat in Willy Wonka.
SAME! I just turned 57. Things have gone so backwards even from when I was raising my kids in the 90's! I also believe it is intentional. I saw an interview with Whitney Webb on the Glen Beck podcast. I highly recommend it.
@@dragonfly1430 Thank you, I’ll check it out.
Me too. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I long for the nice times I once had. Before paddling in the sea was safe from vast amounts of sewage. A Sunday dinner without 233,000 microplastic beads in it. And a future to look forward to if only you work hard, what a joke.
I'm 36 now and I can definitely see what you mean. I think the change occurred between 2004-2007, where Facebook, UA-cam, and the first iPhone came out. That was the turning point in my opinion. However, since covid, the change has been accelerated.
I also remember, as a child in the 90's and early 00's, my parents would encourage me to save for a house. I still don't have a house and don't foresee ever affording one, and my parents have also given up on that dream. It was easier for them to get a house when they did, and even they've understood that those times have passed.
I see people of all ages, all races, all backgrounds, noticing that the world is not right. It's not a nice feeling.
To everyone out there struggling: You're not alone. I see you. We all see you. Just do the best that you can do.
We're the same age and I couldn't have said it any better!
Same opinion here...Smartphones (since 1st IPhone) and social media has changed the world (and not for the better). Now we're dealing with the age of post truth, like nothing has the reliability for us to believe is true. Fake news are now a part of our everyday life. And money... f*k this sh*t. How can it be concentrated in the hands of a very few. The thing is... human race is realizing the world is not right even through our instinct and we can't seem to have an answer for these problems.
Buying a home is very intimidating when it comes to the expenses and upkeep. It's what kept me from buying one until I turned 30. I realized that I was paying almost $1k/month in rent when I could go out and buy a comfortable home with a $700 mortgage payment. Bought a home warranty for $500 a year and don't worry about anything major breaking while saving money from renting. Just wait for the housing market crash, homie. You will be able to afford one with the money in your back pocket. The band aid is almost ripped off.
You are totally correct about smartphones and social media dramatically affecting our society (beginning 2007); however, I think that the uneasiness people are feeling right now has come from two VERY recent things: the pandemic, and the looming 2024 U.S. Presidential race (whether or not you're an American). This hyperactive, reactionary sort of behavior from people who might not otherwise had cared about politics (or the internet, for that matter) is unprecedented and was brought on by the mid-late 2010s. The entire field has become increasingly toxic ever since.
I was very happy in those 90's and early 2000's. Our world became too visual, narcissistic and greedy. Nobody cares about each other.
I'm also 36.
Definitely social media has plagued society. I can't say I feel any dread - 2020 was a quiet but good year for us - we just kept on living. I learned to let go of my FOMO. We have a child now and I'm so excited for the future ❤️ we have an amazing family and church and life is looking good ✨️
Being a parent is awesome.
I certainly recommend homeschooling.
Your comments about the phone is spot on, I was a technician for 13yrs doing warranty repairs on laptop, tablets and phones, the amount of people who describe themselves as "tech savvy" is huge but almost all of them only know how to use things, not how they actually work, even a lot of tech shows on TV fall into this category.
I'm 22 years old and I feel like a completely new person after the lockdown. I lost the motivation to strive harder in school, doing less in enhancing my hobbies, and just overall feel dread and weary everyday. While it is really sad to say, it is good to know that I am not the only one who feels the changes in the current situation of the world.
You might just be anxious and depressed. As most are a bit. Wveryone just needs to lighten up and get back together in person
I'm 19 and feel the same as you. I lost my motivation in learning languages and my hobbies. Things aren't work out the same anymore. Whenever I let myself start to do them, I would feel empty, no excitement, just feel lost in motivation and feeling. I don't feel mindful in everything I do, completely uneasy feeling and just different. I told my friends if they felt this or no, but I didn't find the same answer relating to what I've been feeling after pandemic. Sickening yes, but completely wondering with the fact I always feel time is going so fast and I lost sense basically in every aspect of my life
I'm 21 and I shake off the feeling that we won't make it to 30
Use it as encouragement understand you’re the only person who can change u
Burnout?
I feel like life has changed for me since 2020…. It just doesn’t feel the same anymore. It’s as if I’m living this fever dream. People are meaner, more selfish, more arrogant, etc. I catch myself getting depressed or anxiety easily triggered by memories of the past before the pandemic hit. It’s harder to connect with genuine people bc people’s intentions these days is to use one another then discard when done. I miss when life was simple..
I think it started earlier, but it became more obvious in 2020. I wish you the best from my heart. Not all people are "cold", but it is harder to find genuine people.
I feel the same, I had so many friends and good times , and a great dating life, sex life, everything . And now all I can focus on it how to pay my next bill , not sure what happened .
same :(
Yeah come on that thing you're talking about data.it's like a narcissism epidemic. The darkest and most horrible sides of evil people have come out on full display come on no more shame more hiding. I think having trump in office for 4 years was a big push in this direction. Just give everyone the green light to be the most crappy people they possibly could andt still get away with it
Agree
Yes, they have changed. People are more self-centered and materialistic. They forget true values such as strength of character. They forget the true value of their life is not what they can get from this world but what they have to give to it.
I truly believe if everyone helped each other, instead of being self centered society would get better
We spent 24-36 months convincing ourselves screens could replace real life & in person connection, and now we are wondering why we feel broken. We fantasize we can just wake up from it, but that’s the delusion itself - that we’re too smart to let our tools own us. One has to consciously change one’s habits. We need to confront the lies we tell ourselves. No one will do it for us. No one‘s gonna pull us off the screen.
That said, I sense lately change is coming: people are increasingly disillusioned with social media and the act of barfing our lives up on screen (which never feels as good as we hope). We must be part of changing things, and it is beginning. Social change only takes 20% of the population to effect it. It will come - the question is how quickly and how well will we accept what we are coming back to?
Part of why I think things feel off now is because people used to believe in the future, and now we don't. I haven't been around for too long - I grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s - but back then I remember people talking about how the future held these great things and how we could be anything we wanted to be. The world felt full of possibilities and wonders. Now everyone seems to think that you'll need to struggle to get by and in the end it won't matter because A) things just keep getting worse, and B) global warming / conspiracies / whatever you believe in is going to destroy the world as we know it regardless. I don't know anyone that is looking forward to anything, or who believes that things are going to get better soon. I know many people that feel like we're heading towards some massive conflict with the powers and systems that run our world because the average person is becoming unable to live a good life. Maybe this helps explain why so many people in the comments say that they feel something looming but can't put a finger on it.
I still hold hope for a better world, us growing as humans, becoming more empathic, connected, finding new ways to live, I wanna see what is going to happens, that's holding my will to live together.
We are living through late stage capitalism.
Bloated work weeks yet meaningless jobs that could well be automated in the near future.
Rapidly growing wealth inequality.
All the meaningful jobs pay nothing and all the meaningless jobs afford you a lifestyle that eviscerates meaning.
We are also bombarded with negative news because negative news sells. I once clicked on a newspaper article that said "huge asteroid heading for eaetth" read it and it was just a piece about how we need better defense against asteroids in the future.
@@johnlondon5516 wow. This is so deep.
@@johnlondon5516true
choose the shitty life or the good life. it's up to you, and it wouldn't matter anyway because you're an npc.
_”When the last person who remembers the last Great War is dead, the next Great War becomes inevitable.”_ That’s probably also applicable to other things, like depressions and financial crises, etc. It’s all about memory.
Memory is collective.
And people want to edit the books now and tear down statues of the past because of the horror they portray. We will be the generation to know these horrors once more.
So the whole worlds population died and a new population replaced it in the 21 year span between WW1 and WW2 according to whoever said that?
Welcome to the fourth turning
@@jollygrapefruit786 It doesn’t say the next Great War is impossible if people still remember the last one.
Yes I feel exactly the same way.
Everything you have covered here totally resonates!
I believe we are on the brink of something massive, something beyond our wildest dreams😬
I share the same feeling. I am 29 and I feel like the world has changed so much. I noticed everyone is disconnected from each other and there’s no longer any respect or tolerance for each other. No one likes to communicate in person anymore and everyone does things only for money rather than for purpose and meaning. We also have a loneliness epidemic and public health and education is not prioritized or funded
We should really do things for purpose and meaning! So true!
I share the same feeling and thought
The changes are occuring due to the new way of thinking that the goverments have been bombarding us through the media all the time.
Well then your not smart if you can’t see the blatant wanting to feel special and wanting to feel like they matter I mean just read the comment they are saying that everything is falling apart and that something wicked is coming when in fact nothing like that is going to happen it’s just people who have had unimportant life’s trying to think something big is coming to think that they matter for proof look at the people saying there age on here
That’s not true thats majority of the people but theres still good people. You have to surround yourself with those people.
I have this overwhelming feeling of the world running out of time for something
It really is just the anxiety of constantly being connected.
@@johnlondon5516How do you mean
Paradis Island is running out of time to use the Rumbling
Maybe we should, maybe society is so broken we need a reset.
It's definitely peaked
Social media disconnects us from ourselves
The worlds gone mad even people in person from social media
i just turned 20, everything feels more and more shallow and meaningless and it’s getting hard to have any hope in the future, it sucks
I’m in my early 50s. The sober feeling that pervades now is similar to how I felt in the 80s. Music was rubbish. No one had any money. AIDS was new and was going to kill us all. Manufacturing was dying and there were no jobs. I knew many people who PAID their employers to be allowed work for them- just to get experience/foot in the door. The only thing I had was hope that I could build a good life for myself through hard work etc. So I worked extremely hard for decades. It didn’t quite work out for me (I’m not a multimillionaire). But I didn’t fail either. I’m financially secure. What I’ve learned: We are each the captains of our own ship. Stop worrying about calamities unless you are going to become a politician or have control over big decisions in that regard. If you really care become a leader. Otherwise let it go and focus on your position in the wheel of life. You must just look after YOU. You don’t need to know how the phone works. (Your life does NOT depend on a phone btw). My advice: learn how to bake bread and buy a mountain bike. Keep your worries and focus small. That’s the secret to individual success and survival.
This is very true. I just turned 31 and have been feeling this way. I can only change things within my reach. I can only vote once a year and that is it.
not worrying about it doesn't make it not happen, just like ignoring politics doesn't make politics ignore you. Your in your 50s you can not care and maybe slip by maybe it won't collapse before you die. For the 20 and 30s folks. The money will be worthless. Everything they do is pointless. There is no way out and they are to young to hope the house of cards stays standing till they are dead. They have no hope.
You are in danger if you "stop worrying" or not. In fact it's you folks who sat by and watched it get this bad. Just ignore it is your generations mantra. You just ignored while our nation was given away to the highest bidder. You left your children a worse world then the one you were given. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
I remember the 80s, it was rough as hell, my parents were struggling and we had to share everything. We are right back there again.
The fact you used becoming a politician as the benchmark for your point shows how disconnected you are. Politicians are the problem, and if you believe you can be the singular unit that turns the parasitic construct that is modern day politics on its head, you might as well take the initiative and Martin Luther king yourself and get it over with.
@@Sh0n0 the benchmark mark of his point was do your own thing cause your not gonna save the world and all it’s problems in your lifetime all you can do is have a positive affect of the things around not “become a politician”
I was asking an older family friend about this and he was saying that he felt like nobody knows how to help eachother anymore. And it’s true. I’m 23 and life feels drastically different from when I was a teenager and a child, and of course I feel nostalgia for those times, but I know it’s something else. I was having coffee w another family friend and he said “young people today don’t know where to go, and I feel bad for them”. We are missing a sense of community And meaningful relationships
That's because America doesn't have Christ
@@lisaproctor7276 america has literal cults in the middle states over jesus. i think extremism in christianity is one of the main problems with america actually, it's caused so much hate.
i've always craved a sense of community and hated how individualistic my life has been thus far being raised in america. when i move out i plan on creating my own community and hopefully in the future i can raise happy children in said community, knowing they have a place they belong. i'm also 23 and you're right, life does feel completely different now from let's say, being in high school in like 2015/2016 where everything was still hopeful and happy. i wish i could help my friends but i can't do so until i am financially stable enough.
@@D3LUSIONALD4RCY That craving is for God. Seek God. Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life"
@@lisaproctor7276 I was taken to many churches as a child against my will. I never enjoyed them, and I actually hated how fake and judgemental everybody was. That was not community. I was forced inside a box where I was just an extension of my parents and not my individual self. What I need is community, not God. I will find community and love without religion.
Thank you for the great and evocative editing my man! I see you've completely mastered the art of B roll. Thank youuuUU!!111
Feeling the same way here. Thank you for the insights and raising these important questions of where we heading as individuals and as a society.
Yes, everything has changed. If young people your age are aware of it, imagine what it feels like for those of us who are much older. Its terrifying.
Being Gen-X its sad younger people didn't experience what I did. It's way different now and not in a good way.
At least you got to experience the better times I’m jealous
It’s terrorism. Started at 9/11. I am probably older than you if that’s at all interesting (born in 1965).
I am gen x. I am devastated with what I see happening and what I expect is coming. NEVER could I have imagined something so horrible. And I feel awful for the younger ones because they deserve so soooo much better. Wishing everyone well, and happiness and peace, wherever it can be found. Love to all. ♥️
Yeah, and then during your time, some people came around who decided to put an economic system in place which prevented people from climbing the corporate ladder, and increased the wealth gap, leading to a bigger disparity of the working class and wealthy class. During this time, over half of the world’s natural resources got used up, and without being replaced. House prices have skyrocketed. College tuition has skyrocketed. While the minimum wage has doubled, the cost to live has quintupled. Your generation experienced, for the most part, an amazing and privileged lifestyle, but that came at the cost of the resources of future generations to come. Turns out, a pleasing existence comes at a long-term cost. I have nothing against you or anyone from your generation, but the world is becoming sparse because of what happened.
YES DUDE! I am 30 years old. Born in 1992. I’m two years older than you. And I do feel like everything has changed. I’m alone often and so sometimes I go drive at night and I swear I can feel it in the air. Less people are out on the roads. Things seem eerie. I was thinking last night while I was out ‘where is everybody’? Just driving around in a Saturday night at 8:30pm felt apocalyptic to me.
And socially things are different. It’s hard to express yourself without judgment or some kind of minor persecution. Idk man. Maybe it’s because we were little in the past and things felt magical naturally. But things really do feel off.
Omg, you took the words out of my mouth, literally!!! I am plesantly surprised though.
I feel like you cannot be respectably honest without there being a firing squad ready to strike at your words. I feel the eeriness. I have become more cynical and I am trying my best to come out of it. Fake entitlement has become king of the world. If you are polite or grateful or show natural kindness to a person or a situation, people pick those qualities apart. It's extremely difficult to engage with people without being torn apart. It's becoming scary for me.
I was born in 1995 and I agree. However, I don’t believe that things only seemed much better back then just because we were little, It really was true. I remember it being almost impossible to not make new friends. Whenever my family and I would go out anywhere, whether it be the beach, a community event or a vacation, new and lasting friendships were made. For my entire childhood I remember having all the neighborhood kids (from all walks of life) over and going over their houses as well. Now, it’s hard to even receive eye contact from another parent at the park. Not having social media (or not being very active on it) is seemingly a red flag to most new people I meet. Up until like 15 years ago, Adults, parents, whoever you were in the world, it was not hard to find at least a few people to converse or exchange pleasantries with at any given place. People made eye contact & didn’t have a smartphone to stare at. There were so many people to look up to as a child. Being an adult seemed AWESOME. Now? There’s literally nothing to look forward to… at any age. The majority of people in our society idolize and worship YOUTH. Physical signs of aging are avoided at all costs. It’s abnormal to accept our flaws & imperfections and age naturally. Today, I believe no one wants to be an adult.. especially children. The majority of them look at their parents and think ‘oh fuck, is that what my life is going to be like?’ Or they are completely peer oriented and wish their parents didn’t exist. Half of them wonder why they are even born as their parents completely ignore them to scroll on their phone and dissociate for hours. At the same time, children are exposed to so much at such a young age, they do end up growing up incredibly fast mentally and emotionally. With the majority of our hopes, dreams, & everything we were promised being flushed away & our attention constantly being directed towards negative information, how are any of us supposed to feel today? Especially the kids?
I think the ultimate difference between back then & now is hope for the future.
I get that “where is everybody?” feeling a lot while out in public. Going to stores, going to the mall, to the movie theatre. The internet has changed the world and I don’t really think it’s for the better.
Hey, 29 year old here and I feel the same way. I’m also alone a lot and drive most if not every day - I too had the experience of driving around and not seeing another soul after dark, only yesterday. It was so striking that I had a fleeting thought that I’m in a simulation 😅 but yeah, I have been thinking a lot too about the direction of the world and how we got to where we are now
What we are all experiencing is trauma. It skews our senses and causes unfathomable grief we were never meant to carry. Everything feels different because 1. It is. And 2. We are experiencing our nervous systems in overwhelm, and our bodies and brains try to protect us by dissociating and depersonalization, which is the persistent feeling of observing oneself from outside one’s body or having a sense that one’s surroundings aren't real. It's trauma, the symptoms of PTSD. Now you all know that this illness is real and very serious and impossible to live with. You want things to come to the climax and end this discomfort and agony we're all feeling, but it's within us. Take care of you, go to therapy, live in a peaceful manner, get off social media, stop watching the news, connect in real life, and you will begin to feel better.
Thank you for putting it in words. I've felt exactly the same
I got rid of social media years ago and it made such a huge positive impact on my life. But it gives me such anxiety when I'm out enjoying myself and people post pictures of me without me knowing online. I tried to get away from it all but it makes me upset when people can't respect my boundaries and wishes to be private. Recently my mother in law posted literally the most unflattering picture of me in a bikini while gonna trip with them. It's funny because I'm fit and pretty confident in my body. But it was the fact that a picture if me in a bikini was put on the internet without my consent or knowledge. It just gave me anxiety and I hated how my spine looked because of my scoliosis. I just want to live freely and enjoy life without peoples phone cameras documenting EVERYTHING.
I know EXACTLY how you feel. I recently got together with family and one uncle loves to take pictures and post them online. I don't even let him take pictures of me any more because he doesn't respect my wishes. He gets upset bc he wants the "memories "
It's such a bad feeling
I'm an injun and I feel the same way
move to the country, far away from the city.
Well said.
My parents sent me a Christmas card with a photo of myself in my pajamas short shorts (I don’t dress like that in public) holding my newborn and it was too late they already sent it to everybody.