• veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I’ve seen some videos of Costco brawls between gen z men over Pokemon cards they want to flip. Surely the bar can’t get lower then that

    • theBATCLAM@piefed.social
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      10 hours ago

      I think, unfortunately, we are being lead by grifters creating a society of grifters i.e. the future generation is learning the lesson that the way to get ahead is by grifting.

      I know this is gonna sound dramatic but if it keeps going? We’re looking at apocalyptic outcomes for the future of civilization.

      • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        the future generation is learning the lesson that the way to get ahead is by grifting.

        So basically how it always was?

        There’s a reason why there are billionaires…

        But yeah it’s likely getting worse, like an elite and otherwise brain-dead propaganda following society (to exaggerate a little bit…). Initially after reading Adorno years ago, I never thought that the rather negative way he wrote, and something like the third Reich will not happen again, yet here we are repeating mistakes, fueled by accelerating climate-change (and the resulting conflicts)…

        We are leaving (or rather have left) the most peaceful era of humanity, back to smashing each others heads without a real reason, leaving a more positive holistic utopian future… Sad.