You can’t tell me that people in 2025 aren’t shittier than they used to be. Things weren’t like THIS 20 years ago.
Every day, we hear of some kind of mass shooting, or stabbing, or insane shitty behaviour by average Americans, not even by criminals or serial killers. Take a look at these stories I saw yesterday. Some woman thought the lady in front of her at checkout took too long at checkout so she followed her to the parking lot and stabbed her. Then went back to the store to wash the blood off the knife. And then there’s this KAREN who had the school call the COPS and had a TEN YEAR OLD hand-cuffed and ARRESTED because she didn’t like the DRAWING she did of another student. Like WTF.
And no, these stories are NOT an anomaly. They are the NORM these days. I see these headlines ALL the time. THIS past summer where I live, there were news about TONS of random women getting soccer punched- HARD- just walking around on the sidewalk in the city I’m in. And these were TRUE stories, bc there were a bunch of guys who did this to random women. Women just walking to work or walking home or walking to lunch- got soccer punched in the face by a bunch of random men- and copycats- because NOTHING was being done to find and arrest these assholes. So MORE guys took the opportunity to randomly soccer punch random women. Like we can’t even fucking step outside anymore.
Woman buys knives, stabs another customer she thought took too long to checkout:
Police Arrest 10 Year Old Girl for Picture She Drew:
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My opinion is that humans have always been shit. Whether we’re inflicting medieval tortures on each other for refusing to follow a fashionable god, shooting up a school for no logical reason at all, committing genocide to the tune of 6 million humans, lacing tylenol with cyanide to kill random strangers, or stabbing a fellow customer at marshalls, humans are the definition of shit shit shit. Always were, always will be, until by the grace of a truly merciful “god” we’ll get wiped out by a disease and leave the planet to other more competent lifeforms like… maybe all the non-human ones who kept the planet in balance for 4 billion years before we showed up and destroyed it all.
while ppl have always been shitty, there seems to be WAY MORE of this shittiness the past decade. like karens and kens weren’t a thing before. and no, it’s not just bc there’s social media now. there was social media back 10 yrs ago, and 20 yrs ago. People feel extra shitty now. Or maybe they just feel more emboldened to act now compared to the past. Actuallly, that is part of it- ppl now feel more emboldened to act on their shitty desires rather than hide it in the past like they used to.
This level of insanity/shittiness wasn’t seen at this magnitude 20 or 30 years ago.
Yah that’s the tricky question; I think what you’re talking about is shittiness on an individual/microscopic level, and I agree we’re way worse than 20-30 years ago.
There are really 2 levels of shitty. The first is the overall/macroscopic shitty which I think has never changed much. We had bloodthirsty, genocidal dictators 1000 years ago just like we have today. From the Egyptian pharaohs to the Roman emperors to Genghis Khan to Hitler to Putin to Netanyahu, society is ruled by tyrants who don’t think twice about inflicting horrific suffering. No change there, so we might as well give up.
Which leads us back to the microscopic level, the personal or individual level. Regardless of what our leaders are doing with bombs, how do we interact with strangers on the street? That’s where I once had some hope (when I was a kid), but the last 10 years have shown me, in America at least, that there’s been a slow, steady, unstoppable decay into pure hatred. I suppose the days of Victorian civility where you’d tip your hat or bonnet to strangers and speak in polite terms (regardless of the innate bitterness of the human soul that may be brewing underneath) is, in today’s terms, too “woke” to tolerate. So we have strangers acting as crass and stinky as their fetid souls, with no respect for how it hurts others. Strangers would sooner call each other slurs & stab each other than tip their hats, and it seems to be accelerating.
Again I’m talking exclusively about American society. I’ve been told by friends in Europe that this is a distinctly American problem. Which leads me to hope that this shitpile of human hatred known as the USA just needs to be wiped clean, or maybe just left alone to eat itself. In any case I don’t plan to be around much longer to see how it turns out. Maybe I’ll get lucky and be stabbed to death by someone behind me at Walmart because I took too long to find my credit card idgaf. Bring it on.