The Ruined Generation

[Doctor Phibes]

Also, some of it's just good old fashioned complaining about the modern world.

I've no idea who the author is, these folk are everywhere and I don't have a clue who most of them are - if you look at his profile, he's written 2135 articles, and over 119,000 tweets.

How does one person do that?

[Jolly]

@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:

Also, some of it's just good old fashioned complaining about the modern world.

I've no idea who the author is, these folk are everywhere and I don't have a clue who most of them are - if you look at his profile, he's written 2135 articles, and over 119,000 tweets.

How does one person do that?

The author is Mik's kinfolk...

[Axtremus]

@jolly said in The Ruined Generation:

@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:

Also, some of it's just good old fashioned complaining about the modern world.

I've no idea who the author is, these folk are everywhere and I don't have a clue who most of them are - if you look at his profile, he's written 2135 articles, and over 119,000 tweets.

How does one person do that?

The author is Mik's kinfolk...

1. We should not count that against the author.
2. Look at Mik’s post count on TNCR!

[Horace]

@jolly said in The Ruined Generation:

@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:

Also, some of it's just good old fashioned complaining about the modern world.

I've no idea who the author is, these folk are everywhere and I don't have a clue who most of them are - if you look at his profile, he's written 2135 articles, and over 119,000 tweets.

How does one person do that?

The author is Mik's kinfolk...

He's a good guy. I listen to his podcast sometimes. And I enjoyed his book, Outrage Machine or somesuch.

[Loki]

@xenon said in The Ruined Generation:

There are a lot of negatives with social media. But the above is the tip of the ice berg.

The internet allows societies to organize themselves differently. The internet will change the definition of "nation"

Again - I say this often and it's kinda trite, but the internet is on the level of the printing press and we ain't seen nothing yet.

Just as the constitution gave the press a prominent place in the founding documents, the role of the internet requires similar thinking.

It won't do with just a Section, law or regulation.

Take your thought a bit further, the nation state as dominant withers away? And what about China suppressing access? And think about China as writing the algorithms that rule the internet.

It would be fun to jump ahead 30 years to see what happened.

[Mik]

Yeah, it would. It might make impending death more attractive.

[Doctor Phibes]

You lot are such a bunch of miserable old farts.

I'm actually quite optimistic for the future - something will turn up!

I don't hold with all this 'The young today are so terrible' routine. And if they are, (which they're not) we've got nobody to blame but ourselves.

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:

You lot are such a bunch of miserable old farts.

I'm actually quite optimistic for the future - something will turn up!

I don't hold with all this 'The young today are so terrible' routine. And if they are, (which they're not) we've got nobody to blame but ourselves.

It's technology to the rescue, but it certainly is an unknown, compared to the rest of history. Fact: you are living through generational changes to the human experience happening at a faster pace than circa 99% of your ancestors.

[Doctor Phibes]

@horace said in The Ruined Generation:

@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:

You lot are such a bunch of miserable old farts.

I'm actually quite optimistic for the future - something will turn up!

I don't hold with all this 'The young today are so terrible' routine. And if they are, (which they're not) we've got nobody to blame but ourselves.

It's technology to the rescue, but it certainly is an unknown, compared to the rest of history. Fact: you are living through generational changes to the human experience happening at a faster pace than circa 99% of your ancestors.

I know, it's really quite exciting! Obviously, Very Bad Things are possible, but despite my admittedly somewhat artificially manufactured online persona as the most miserable man on earth, great things are also possible!

[Mik]

@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:

You lot are such a bunch of miserable old farts.

I'm actually quite optimistic for the future - something will turn up!

I don't hold with all this 'The young today are so terrible' routine. And if they are, (which they're not) we've got nobody to blame but ourselves.

They are definitely not. They are whip-smart, fast as hell, problem solvers and much more open minded than prior generations. Sometimes to a fault, but that will work out over time.

[brenda]

@mik said in The Ruined Generation:

@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:

You lot are such a bunch of miserable old farts.

I'm actually quite optimistic for the future - something will turn up!

I don't hold with all this 'The young today are so terrible' routine. And if they are, (which they're not) we've got nobody to blame but ourselves.

They are definitely not. They are whip-smart, fast as hell, problem solvers and much more open minded than prior generations. Sometimes to a fault, but that will work out over time.

+1

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in The Ruined Generation:

How we get out of this death spiral remains unknown, but the first step is to stop elevating those who impose it on us.

That's already happened. And it's the damn kids these days who are directly responsible.

Americans have always had a shorter tolerance for a particular kind of public bullshit, and you see it happening now with influencers and folks who are YouTube famous. The original formula of "look how exciting my life is" doesn't work anymore—you get mocked for promoting that kind of shit today. The only way to make it on those platforms today is to be yourself and to innovate.

And you can thank the lazy, selfish Millennials for that because not only do they spend an assload more time on these platforms than the writer of this article ever would, but they contribute much more to them, too.

[Doctor Phibes]

I made a promise when I was young that I would never start going on about how awful the young are when I got old. I'd never go on about how in my day we made our own entertainment, and how whatever it was that replaced TV isn't a patch on watching freaking Scooby Doo at 5 o'clock after we walked home from school in our underwear because we couldn't afford to catch the bus.

I'm not having it. When I was 15 I spent most of my available free time smoking behind the bush shelter, drinking hard cider on golf courses and generally being a little shit.

The people who spent their lives in church may have had different experiences. Bloody boring ones, most likely, which is why they're complaining now.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in The Ruined Generation:

Scroll through social media and you’ll be inundated with selfies and pictures of food. Did something really happen, did you really eat a meal if you didn’t tell the world about?

That's this guy's fault, entirely. His total ignorance of the very same shit he's pontificating about is why he sees selfies and pictures of food.

I follow about 1,500 accounts on Instagram. I never see selfies and pictures of food in my feed. Not even in the sponsored posts. That's because I don't use Instagram to keep in touch with friends or follow celebrities, I use it to get better with photography. Every account I follow is a photography account, from people who are at least as knowledgable as me or more so.

The algorithms only spit out what your actions show you want it to spit out, jackass. Curate your feed. If you don't want to see selfies and breakfast pictures, stop liking selfies and breakfast pictures and stop following accounts that post that shit. It's literally that easy.

[Doctor Phibes]

@aqua-letifer said in The Ruined Generation:

@jolly said in The Ruined Generation:

Scroll through social media and you’ll be inundated with selfies and pictures of food. Did something really happen, did you really eat a meal if you didn’t tell the world about?

That's this guy's fault, entirely. His total ignorance of the very same shit he's pontificating about is why he sees selfies and pictures of food.

I follow about 1,500 accounts on Instagram. I never see selfies and pictures of food in my feed. Not even in the sponsored posts. That's because I don't use Instagram to keep in touch with friends or follow celebrities, I use it to get better with photography. Every account I follow is a photography account, from people who are at least as knowledgable as me or more so.

The algorithms only spit out what your actions show you want it to spit out, jackass. Curate your feed. If you don't want to see selfies and breakfast pictures, stop liking selfies and breakfast pictures and stop following accounts that post that shit. It's literally that easy.

Yes.

[mark]

@doctor-phibes said in The Ruined Generation:

I made a promise when I was young that I would never start going on about how awful the young are when I got old. I'd never go on about how in my day we made our own entertainment, and how whatever it was that replaced TV isn't a patch on watching freaking Scooby Doo at 5 o'clock after we walked home from school in our underwear because we couldn't afford to catch the bus.

I'm not having it. When I was 15 I spent most of my available free time smoking behind the bush shelter, drinking hard cider on golf courses and generally being a little shit.

The people who spent their lives in church may have had different experiences. Bloody boring ones, most likely, which is why they're complaining now.

It's like were related or something. Scary actually. lol