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Terminally online people are always fighting these silly mini-culture wars through the social media platforms our tech overlords have cursed us with. As self-centered consumers of content all day, they lose perspective, and feel the need to maintain their self-esteem and dignity by scoring points with “hot takes” or staying on top with current trends to stay relevant. Some of these takes stick for lack of a better term, and serve as a litmus test for whether you’re a member of the cool in-group, or the cheugy cringe ok boomer out-group.
This serves the overlords by dividing us further, and preventing class consciousness by removing our ability to relate through our innate humanity, since everyone is now a classification that can be marketed to in a nice neat little box packaged and sold to not even the highest bidder but anyone who wants to pay for it. Instead of having a personality and seeing the value in all human beings, they commodify themselves and others into their perceived advertising footprint. I don’t know if this is true for everyone, but it certainly feels that way these days based on the garbage I see coming from short form video content.
If I haven’t made it clear, I’m of the opinion that short form video and social media are really bad for us for a variety of reasons, but especially as a social bonding mechanism.
I’ve been saving for a down payment for a house for two years. It would appear my money is not wanted in the USA. I also have dual EU citizenship. My plan is to improve my spoken German and take my family overseas.
As an atheist married to a Salvadoran woman with whom I have two hispanic children, I feel like after they run out of illegal immigrants we’ll not be far down the “committing suicide with two bullets to the back of the head” list. Or maybe we’ll just get sent to a camp that treats ADHD if you catch my drift.
I visited Germany in 2022 and was very impressed with the walkable/bikeable infrastructure and ICE trains even if they were late on occasion. The food wasn’t my favorite but the culture and people were kind and they still seem to value rule of law and societal decorum to a certain degree. The idea that making a nazi salute in public is jailable/fineable is really how it should be everywhere but “free speech” yadda yadda…
I have wanted to leave the US since 2003. Just didn’t have skills or money until now. I’m still going to struggle with a language barrier and finding a job with A2 level German. That’s my biggest issue right now I think.
My mom moved to the US not knowing English. How the turntables have turned.