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Young adults increasingly struggling offline turn to ASMR videos, report finds
(www.theguardian.com)
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I'm sorry but every corner of the world is battling rising authoritarianism at least on one front, sometimes multiple. Wealth gaps continue to widen and the environment is increasingly being made less hospitable to us, by us, with no end in sight. Are we supposed to be able to just ignore all that? Maybe the maladaptive trait IS avoiding and ignoring all that in what this article seems to mistake for resilience.
Okay, I'll bite.
Well, then, you're categorically wrong. These younger humans are not simply stupid. They see that the world is completely destitute and don't want to engage with them. That doesn't make them less resilient, they're trying to limit their impact and their time around other humans because they see all of the chaos being brought about by that interaction. Asmr is an easy way of getting stimulation without impacting anyone else, other than the byproduct of electricity usage. And that's not really their fault. We have also been vastly cornered into social isolation ever since COVID hit. This is the dissevered reality that Republicans have wanted for a very long time. All of our systems are being gutted, and no one wants to confront the people who are taking them away, including you. So everyone else who gives two shits would rather keep their sanity by finding salvation in isolation than work together with a bunch of people actively destroying the world, through greed, ignorance, or sheer stupidity. Or out of some perceived social necessity as it seems you believe. There is no place in the world for a good majority of the chronically online. We used to have a place when people could work overnight and afford to rent, when they didn't have to live in their parent's basements just to survive, when college graduates didn't have to live paycheck to paycheck. The only people making enough money to dream of a pension or retirement are those who knew someone, or those who had the money to get to know someone and there is increasingly less and less middle ground. The bottom has fallen out for a multitude of reasons over the last several decades, and we're all caught in the crossfire of a generation past whose entire goal was conquest in a world that increasingly just wants to be left alone. We're at odds with the past and the future and were just trying to survive. This is how we cope with having our only option being survival.
Ok, its not your fault. Better now?
The problem still exists and still is real. Lots of people are hiding behind screens fearful even to interact with others through other means then text and chat apps.
Thats not good. Thats a problem.
Fuck off, Trumpet.
Least I'm not a Nazi.