The whole Coronavirus debacle got me thinking about this. Not sure if it's my coming of age, but since around 2014 it's felt like major world-changing shit has been happening more and more frequently. The only real differences between the zeitgeist of 2007 and 2010, for instance, were that Obama got elected and an economic recession happened. Going from 2017 to 2020, on the other hand, is a completely different story. It's like a massive thing happens every other month now.
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It's probably just the proliferation of always-online culture; every monkey's got a treetop to hoot from now and it just turns into a feedback loop.
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The world went utterly insane in 2014, it's true.
I don't know why exactly that is, but it is.
I don't know why exactly that is, but it is.
Jon Stewart announced his retirement from The Daily Show in early 2015. Turns out he was the only one keeping everyone sane.
I think the trouble all began with the Russian invasion of Crimea in early 2014, that sparked renewed Cold War style tensions between the US and Russia which was pretty frightening and a real "we're not in Kansas anymore" moment.
Then here in the US we had the Ferguson Missouri shitstorm and Gamergate, both of which solidified the modern culture war.
And as the cherry on top of the shit sundae, Robin Williams, one of my heroes throughout my whole life, commited suicide, which in his defense he was facing a terrible illness so I'm not necessarily mad at him or blaming him, I feel sorry for him that that's what happened to him, it's just a terrible tragedy.
As an aside 2014 was also the year I noticed transgenderism really taking off in popularity.
The world lost something that year, I can't even really define what exactly that was, but it was something and now year by year things have been progressively getting a little worse to where it now seems like modern civilization is genuinely under the threat of collapse.
There were a shitload of happenings, people just weren't connected enough to care pre-2008.
He's still a shill. Even if he propagated shit to a lesser degree, he is still a liberal media shill.
Agreed, although I personally think the world went insane in 2008 but was still just functional enough to not be glaringly obvious about it until 2014.
The triple-punch of Crimea, BLM, and Gamergate that year was merely the timer dinging to let you know that the goose was fully cooked. BLM and Crimea were signs of serious problems for the United States both at home and abroad.
Meanwhile, Gamergate was really just a bunch of dumb internet slapfights at its core, but then issue was that the MSM went full retard and took it far more seriously than it should have ever been, while certain subgroups of the Millennial Left such as the clickbait mills still act like it's a major deal and something more than an internet bitch fit over half a decade after everyone else stopped giving a shit.
He is, but he was genuinely funny unlike Trevor Noah, was friends with Bill O'Reilly despite the two of them having polar opposite views, and he was always a lot more self-aware than Colbert or Oliver.
IIRC, I remember Jon Stewart actually criticizing his audience for trusting The Daily Show as a news source several times in various interviews and he always insisted he was a comedian first and foremost.
It also helped that during the bulk of Stewart's tenure, the right was mostly dominated by nutjob fundie traditionalists and expansionist neoconservatives, so the liberals largely looked better by comparison.
While I'm fairly sure that the majority of conservatives weren't your typical fundamentalist or neocon corporate shill, those two groups were the loudest voices in the room and the RNC listened to them.
Even if the majority of conservatives in the 2000's hated the neocons and fundies, they were the dominant cliques in the GOP back in the Clinton and Bush years, and it really wasn't until Obama's second term that they started to run out of steam before Trump hit the scene and went in a more populist direction.
Now the Religious Right is dead outside a few Boomer incumbents in the Bible Belt while most of the neocons are a widely detested and maligned clique mostly comprised of Never Trumpers and Ben Shapiro.
Honestly, the only reason why Ben Shapiro isn't quite as maligned as the rest of the neocons is because he doesn't hold any public office or positions of influence and because he occasionally has witty comebacks when arguing with SJW college kids.
Some of the people in the GOP formerly associated with the old fundie and neocon factions have since left it and went into a more populist direction overall. Ted Cruz is probably one of the more notable examples of this ongoing realignment within the Republican Party.
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2008 was indeed when the trouble really began but 2008-2013 was pretty dang decent in comparison to 2014-2020.
I blame the Arab Spring during 2011. What started as a Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation due to government harassment became a region-wide protest for democracy with mixed, but mostly catastrophic results. In some countries like Libya and Syria, it resulted into civil war, causing mass displacement. The displacement saw refugees pouring into Europe and then caused increased racial tensions. This in turn propelled a right-wing populist movement across Europe which would spread across the western world. The civil war also became proxy battles between U.S. and Russia and saw the rise of ISIS. In short a single protest caused a domino effect that saw the further destabilization of the Middle East and the birth of far-right populism.
I believe a bit of both. The 90s were a bit of an oasis where things were relatively stable. Then 9/11 happened, the financial crisis ensued, then the recession, plus events like Katrina. The glue is definitely coming undone bit by bit but it's pretty clear that after corona, things will return to some kind of normal. It's just that after this it'll be like after 9/11, people will have fear of the next pandemic and take it much more seriously. I don't think we're going to get back the kind of society that existed in the 90s.
like i said people just weren't connected. Katrina is a great point, O&A devoted 10 hours a week to that shit, Metokur style. if something of that level happened in the last decade, tons of people would be streaming and commenting on it and there would be tweets from all the politicans and everything. But even back in 2011 politicians and celebrities weren't really using social media. You had a lot of d-listers using it, but very few celebrities and politicans were active on it. Even Obama tweeted like once a week on average or some shit like that in 2016, and most of those were just linked to press releases.
We're at the point where drive-bys end up front page news online, even if its just for a little while. That shit didn't even used to make the news a decade ago.
coronavirus notwithstanding legitimate happenings that aren't just absurd Alex Jonesian extrapolations like with the missiles launched at Syria (imagine how crazy we would all be back in 2014 if we all freaked out anytime the US shot a missile at some country) have been few and far between and mostly just ginned up by desperate media agencies. Trump is a god send because they can use any random thing he says and milk it for content the same way they milked hate clicks 2012-2015.
If Hilary won, the amount of journalists that would still be working would basically be almost nil, few media websites are thriving on Trump related content as is.
Also another point in my favor, is the fact that mass shootings have magically seemed to stop with Trump in power. With Obama every year a couple assholes tried to go for the high score. All it took was that one Muslim guy doing it in 2015, for the intelligence agencies to go "shit this helps trump, we need to stop that shit" We've had like only one guy in the last 3 years kill more than a half-dozen people at one go now. IIRC.
My last point is that even natural disasters are less common but more commonly acted like they're bigger than them seem, every hurricane is portrayed like the next Katrina and every earthquake too. but overal nothin.
TL;DR Listening to O&A Sirius Archives can help show you what would have been happenings if they happened now, morning radio like the modern internet user needs 20 hours to fill every week so they take what they can get and blow it up into a huge thing,
TL;DR TL;DR Seriously though they have 100 hours of Katrina content, Giraldo is sperging out because he thinks he sees a guy hanging off a bridge in 110 mph winds, when it was actually just a trash bag.
Honestly, we just notice the shit that's happening more due to the 24 hour news cycle and always online-ness.
And the real thing is the more things happen...the more you realize how little anything actually changes.
And the real thing is the more things happen...the more you realize how little anything actually changes.
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I think part of the problem is fewer distractions from the real world. It's ironic because we are drowning in media obviously but a lot more of the media produced is now political with all the subtlety and nuance of an after school special.
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I think it does, largely due to social problems and massive risks being ignored for several years because it would affect billionaires's bottom line.
So as an example, Corona virus is the combination of:
1. China not enforcing basic health codes (if you believe it's natural).
2. The world having massive amount of people traveling across countries.
3. Countries not doing quarantine.
4. Countries being massively dependent on imports.
5. People so used to illnesses they need to be told basic bitch sanitation methods.
So as an example, Corona virus is the combination of:
1. China not enforcing basic health codes (if you believe it's natural).
2. The world having massive amount of people traveling across countries.
3. Countries not doing quarantine.
4. Countries being massively dependent on imports.
5. People so used to illnesses they need to be told basic bitch sanitation methods.
With the advent of everyone including grandmas starting to go online there's just been far more outlets for sensational news stories and forums for those freaked out to stir themselves into a frenzy. Not only is it just stories but now they're being chopped up just for the juicy bits while withholding information that makes it seem less exciting.
Also with the forums you have people, mostly kids and teens, in spaces where their fringe and inexperienced opinions can flourish and seem like way bigger and more important than they actually are so they start carrying them with seriousness without actually understanding how everything works outside of their bubble.
Although with this bombardment of sensationalism, it has started imprinting ideas into people's mind about things. I forget the term but a good example is when suicides increase when people hear about a celebrity suicide.
Also with the forums you have people, mostly kids and teens, in spaces where their fringe and inexperienced opinions can flourish and seem like way bigger and more important than they actually are so they start carrying them with seriousness without actually understanding how everything works outside of their bubble.
Although with this bombardment of sensationalism, it has started imprinting ideas into people's mind about things. I forget the term but a good example is when suicides increase when people hear about a celebrity suicide.
Happenings getting worse? Mayhaps seeing how no one was prepared for either the Coronavirus now, or Iran's idiocy earlier in the year. But more frequent? Not really, I blame MSM and everyone/thing being online all the time like most people in this thread for that aspect.
It can get pretty annoying when half the articles out there are about wars and petty riots and whatnot.
It can get pretty annoying when half the articles out there are about wars and petty riots and whatnot.
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