Society is falling apart.
I have been saying it for many years already, but I think in the last few years, more are finally starting realise it. But, they don't really know why it is falling apart, they just know that things used to be different than now, and the conditions now are not supportive of healthy minds or bodies.
I was reading an article by @pauliinasoilu about an experience she had out late at night *being accosted by a man,* which is no an uncommon experience for women all over the world today. And in the article the question was asked;
What are men going to do about it?
They can't do much about it. Because they didn't create the problem to begin with, and individuals have very little power to make the changes necessary, because the structure of society breeds poor behaviour, by both men and women. The environment we have created is a spiral downward. A devolution of society, where people would rather talk to AI than other humans, because they hear what they want to hear. As I have said to my wife,
A man should never tell a woman what he thinks or how he feels, unless it is is the same as what she wants to hear.
And even then, the "what she wants to hear" is not aligned with how she feels after hearing it. I have listened to multiple stories of women complaining about their men not being manly enough, because they share their thoughts and feel too much. What women want is apparently a man that does everything they want, in the way they want it, and nothing else. A guy does something that the women doesn't like, no matter how slight, and she "gets the ick" and she can never see him the same again.
What kind of behaviour is that?
So then the men of today, spend their time with AI too, watching porn, finding places on the internet filled with people like them who have also been left feeling emasculated by society, and then what happens?
This isn't women's fault either.
Women have been told they can do anything and that men should worship them as women, no matter how they behave. But tell me women, what does that worship look like? Because if it is all one sided, that is slavery, and if history hasn't taught anything, slavery always ends badly for everyone involved. So now, a man must worship, but isn't allowed to express interest, but is simultaneously told that it is his job to make a move. He is told that he has to help women, but only in a way that is okay for the woman, that doesn't belittle her or make her feel inferior, in an environment where everybody is both filled with personalised eccentricities that they expect to be catered for, and are hypersensitive to anything that makes them feel even slightly uncomfortable.
What's a guy to do?
What we have to realise and treat, isn't men, nor women, it is society as a whole. We have destroyed it by degrading the importance of humanity in the name of profits. We have destroyed relationships, and families, and children, because the attraction of a screen is better company than a conversation with another person. We have created a nutritional environment for our mind and body that has left us fat, lazy, and entitled - with the belief that being so is healthy. We have created a world where people expect to get what they want, when they want it, whatever it is.
We are creating tyrants.
If people want to be safe on the streets again, it is going to take people rebuilding community. Rebuilding social ethics where people look after each other. Rebuilding a society that is constantly trying to improve as a group, rather than maximise as an individual. And if people want to have a safer street, they are going to have to be part of that society, rather than locking themselves behind a screen that feeds them more content to further disconnect them, at scale.
Billions of people are disconnecting from humanity and humanness, and it has created a worse life for everyone. And the worse life gets, the more people descend into a world of digital entitlement, where they get what they want, when they want it; and the problem worsens. But then, these same people still have base human needs they want satisfied, but they don't have any of the skills necessary to satisfy them in a healthy manner, and it all gets worse again.
Society keeps spiralling down.
For decades I have been told that we are not on a slippery slope, yet here we are, hurtling ever faster into humanity's abyss. A return to increasing violence due to increasing gaps in society, whether they be in wealth, health or mental state. A world filled with suffering, evidenced by the immense number of people who keep fighting for their mental health diagnoses as a pass they can show as to why they can't be better than they are, why their behaviour should be accepted, and why everyone else should accept them no matter how poorly they act.
Accept people as they are?
Well, we have created a society that has emphasised and encouraged psychopathic traits in people's behaviour, which means we should accept and forgive all these bad behaviours, because, they can't do anything about it - that is the way they are. It is the same argument used as to why we should accept that 70% of most western populations are over weight, and 40% are obese. It isn't their fault, it is society's - we have to accept them, give them concessions, let them keep eating themselves into disease, because that is just the way they are. Support them to be more of themselves.
This is not a controversial article.
Though many might believe it to be, and believe that they are right, because after all - we live in a world where belief is truth. As long as we believe something, it is our truth. and our truth is all that matters, because we are entitled individuals who have to be accepted, no matter what we believe or how we behave. And we can do this, because there is no longer a community that holds people in line. No longer a community that people want to protect and uphold. No longer a community that people want to build.
We are all individuals, entitled to whatever we want.
And when we don't get what we want, it is someone else's fault. Whether that be the reason I am so fat, or why there is violence on the street, or how many immigrants are in the country, or tourists are visiting, or drug addicts there are, or rapes, murders, shootings.... All someone else's fault.
But the truth is, we are all products of our environment.
And OUR environment is FUCKED.
Accept it?
Taraz
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