It’s been a challenging few years with pandemics, wars, global economic tension, a climate crisis, and so much more.
Online community users share the 15 things they feel are ruining society.
Unreasonable Social Standards
Social media and the mainstream media have glamorized how we should live our lives – and it’s completely unsustainable – especially in this economy.
One user shared their vexation: “The ironic standards people think they have to reach to be something in life. Pretty much all my therapy sessions revolve around this. I say I’m upset about not being this or that. She says why do you need to be this or that. I say, because society, I guess.”
Social Media
So many users weighed in that our obsession with social media (particularly TikTok) is getting out of control: “It was fine in the MySpace days. I miss those days. Now the web outside of socials has all but disappeared, and our feeds are full of divisive posts and stories designed to manipulate us and set us against each other.”
Humans Destroying Nature
The planet has reached 10 billion occupants, and more of our natural world is being destroyed to cater to our race’s needs. “Humans being separated from nature. Believing we are above it. It’s not just where we get all of the necessary elements to survive. We are not meant to live in concrete jungles.” One user shared.
The Economy
“Hear me out; people are stressed out because they’re working longer hours for less pay, inflation is through the roof, can’t afford the cost of rent, food, childcare, and healthcare. Forget about saving for a house because the cost of buying a home is outrageous. Nobody has time for anything they enjoy or just spending time together because they feel they always need to hustle to afford the basic necessities of life.”
Couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
Cancel Culture
This stems from hyper outrage/offense that means anyone with a view that differs from our own should be ostracized from society: “Political correctness to the point that you’re no longer allowed to have an opinion that deviates from the ‘hive’ mentality. If you talk politics, you’re either a National Socialist or a snowflake, depending on who you speak with. No intelligent dialogue or sharing of different ideas. No expression of religion without people trampling on your belief.”
Have & Have-Nots
One user shared: “Everyone can’t be ‘wealthy.’ So many are struggling with meeting basic needs while the 1% are hoarding & frivolously flaunting money. In my grandparent’s generation, a middle-class life could be had with only one person working a regular job. It wasn’t fancy, but that’s just about impossible today.”
Working 9-5
We love the song by Dolly, BUT THAT’S IT. This way of working no longer fits into the modern way of living. It’s gotta go.
“Isn’t working for 8 hours 5 days a week for 40 years mentally exhausting enough already that we don’t need anything else?” One user asked.
Literally, Everything That’s Happening In America Right Now
One user didn’t hold back: “Polarization, banning many human rights, afraid of our kids getting shot in schools, inflation, forcing religion onto the masses, our obsession with youth/ridiculous beauty standards, climate crisis, worried about our kid’s future, is my body going to give out before I can retire, possibly civil war, social media…. (The list goes on)
Is it gonna be like Mad Max or the Wild West?”
She’s absolutely right about all of it. And it’s scary.
Cost Of Living
Owing to the 2007 recession, boomer wealth-hoarding, and the Russia-Ukraine war, the cost of living is through the roof. And folks have had enough: “Every day just feels like I’m sinking deeper into poverty.”
Another user agreed: “The people who raised it are the problem.”
Thanks, boomers.
Lack of Gratitude
Yes, times are hard, but gratitude has a way of making us appreciate what is actually going right. “We’re surrounded by so much excess due to social media and non-stop news that everyone thinks they should be living a life of entitled celebrities and elites, and [this] causes them not to be grateful for the simple everyday things.”
Mainstream Media
Particularly 24-hour news streaming channels.
“Mainstream media is making everyone angry, scared and divided… 24-7 (that means Fox and all the others, btw).”
AI
Artificial Intelligence is not only taking away jobs; a robot takeover’s a real threat.
“Technology is rapidly affecting all demographics and ages, including developing minds. People are subjected daily to immediate feedback and tailored responses, targeting, etc.”
Another user weighed in on the seediness of algorithms: “It’s not ‘social media’ it’s specific social interactions engineered to create maximum engagement. Turns out the thing that’s most engaging is stuff that forces the most primal responses out of people: anger, tribalism, fear, sex, greed, violence.”
Adult Stuff
Everyone deserves to get their jollies off, and the concept of adult entertainment is agreeable. But there’s a dark side to it all:
“Adult videos because it has certain ‘topics’ that completely normalize a disregard for many different morals and principles a decent person should have. It can also cause insecurities and extreme expectations.”
As well as violence.
Hostility
Gun violence in America is at an all-time high, and this user pointed out the irony in the right-wing pro-gun religious folks who are primarily responsible: “[People are] NOT loving thy neighbor. I guess you can’t, in any case. They may shoot you for coming to say hello with a casserole.”
Big Pharma & Medical Insurance
So many Americans don’t have access to their basic healthcare needs because the industry is run purely on greed.
One user shared this: “Speaking as an American, I am 100% convinced that the lack of universal and meaningful healthcare is going to be the end of us.”
Healthcare is a basic human right.
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