For those say in their 60s or 70s here. When you were in your 30’s or 40’s did you have the feeling that the world was a fucked up place? So much has been going on since I entered adulthood in the early 2000s and I feel like it’s getting more and more intense. It’s never ending.
Is it unique? Or has it always been this way?
Generally, things were always fucked up. However, two major changes between this generation and previous ones:
Leaders were generally portrayed as being more competent than now. Even leaders who were considered dumb at the time kept themselves to a far higher standard than now.
The media landscape is more fractured now than before. It was common for television shows to be seen by a third of the country. It made things more uniform culturally. A lot of that is gone
there a pretty good documentary called outfoxed the Rupert Murdoch story about how the media landscape has been turned in to silos/echo chambers, there just isn’t so much of a generalised viewpoint anymore, people have been led into camps of thinking and it’s really hard to get out once in.