>>720167314
i think this is the biggest reason why visiting malls is so depressing. you become fully aware of how much time has passed and how the world has changed, the impermanence of it all.
every time you come back, there's always less than last time, never more. but you can still remember when it was packed full of stores and crowds
>>720147757
we're becoming a society of hermits, what's worse is that the internet, the last place people still somewhat interact with people, is that we're not even going to be interacting with humans in 10 to 20 years, the internet will be fully saturated by bots by then and we'll all be completely isolated and truly alone. like how we're nostalgic for those final years of physical places, gen alpha will be nostalgic for those final fleeting years of virtual places when you could still talk and be heard by another human being even if only digitally.