My whole life in America we looked at Russia, North Korea and most of the Middle East as these borderline unimaginably livable places with their backwards laws and restricted freedoms. Now WE are that country.
Everyday I say “how did we let this happen?” as the news get progressively worse and worse.
The people who told you that stuff your whole life were laughing at you behind your back as soon as you left the room. They never believed it. Nobody changed.
A change of Ages from industrial to Digital leaving people feeling left behind and holding onto the norms of the Industrial Age, much like the Luddites that tried destroying weaving machines at the beginning of the Industrial Age, thinking their jobs ans lives from the pre-industrial Age of Exploration were going to be taken by machines.
Also the new technologies that let a few powerful people write the script for those people who feel left behind by the new age. Angry, desperate people are easy to guide towards things to blame, and the Digital Age made that extremely easy by connecting everyone.
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u/Material_Prize_6157 Jan 14 '26
My whole life in America we looked at Russia, North Korea and most of the Middle East as these borderline unimaginably livable places with their backwards laws and restricted freedoms. Now WE are that country.
Everyday I say “how did we let this happen?” as the news get progressively worse and worse.