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The problem was the systematic loss of integrity across most high station entities. We are now a (rightfully) paranoid society. Not having trust in things blindly is good, but having no trust at all is a death spiral for societal progression. But, how to fix it? I dont know about any of you, but I dont particularly trust any government, corporation, or politician to fight for my rights in any way.
Why did this happen? Because for the last 15 years we have seen people have no attention span from the general populace (likely due to information overload) and letting corpos/politicians get away with everything under the sun. This is what truly broke everything. It showed outright that by throwing new scandals in front of the old ones, you could effectively survive what used to be corpo/political death. Now they have zero reason to be beholden to the populace, because the populace are goldfish that will forget and/or use the product anyway because its too inconvenient to not use it. There is nothing to shackle greed and corruption any more outside of the most ultimate taboos, even even that is being eroded as the people stand by and watch as politicians outright 180 on stances about child rape, and yet nothing is done.
The reason why everything feels so shitty, despite most metrics of living actually improving over time, is because we are actively seeing humanity at its worse and most stupid 24/7, and the people at the top exploiting it. Thats why people feel hopeless. Because the only way to fix it this time is to fix fundamental flaws in the human psyche. Yet everyone is addicted to convienience, and having integrity is much harder than just scrolling through social media. We are hitting a wall soon with the limits of traditional computing, and while I hope tech doesnt halt, I hope we slow the fuck down long enough for society to have time to process the enormous leaps in progress weve had in the past 30 years.
