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Lately western "society" feels more hollow than normal, but I can't tell if it's me projecting my own feelings about it or there is something to the decline showing up in little ways in how people talk and act.
I like to think of it as depression on the societal level, which has only gotten worse and more widespread amongst the population over the decades. The stagnation of living standards, decline in real life third spaces, and the failure of liberalism to explain away the symptoms of empires decline might cause psychological distress of the likes of Doomerism. Why do I say that?
I think the definition of doomerism as the last standing leg of individual liberalism, that nothing ever gets done, and oneself cannot influence the realities they are confronted with, is really helpful to be expanded from the individual to the masses.
As we, as society, are forced to revise our models of thinking about the world and the place we all take in it, we are essentially stripping us of our old abilities to cope, and questioning every source of stability we have taken for granted. While changing our tools of thought, even the space of our own mind begins to shed of its old identity, being stripped of the now unstable foundation.
I think that for some, the pandemic might have been the push from the habitual, albeit relative psychological safety, to the presumed maliciousness of those that practice the now dying western culture.
As a kid i didn't understand what some call 'culture', and guess I still don't, but what I'm certain about is that it is dying with this current liberalism. The capitalists repression of new generations participation in society, their hopes of a better future, that is build with them, may play a big part.
Heck, I see a lot of my peers struggling with the ability to talk to each other, how do we then even create new culture then? We don't party, we don't meet each other, most of us don't even know how to make friends, nor how to grow up and become a person that we aspired to be as kids.
I just wait for the climate crisis ramping up again this summer. Real fun.
Tl;dr:
Tbh we cooked. Old cultures dyin, everyones feelin it. Either we all remain blind to the demise capitalism forces upon our present societal structures, or we get rid of those damn contradictions, and may have a cultural revolution ~~(god this time better be good or we dead)~~
Thoughts of the looming Greatest Depression are probably lurking in the back of their minds and they are starting to put up social barriers so they nobody will ask them to share their food.
Well children are apparently declining in their literacy rate if videos online are anything to go by (in America, but I would not be surprised if other capitalist countries in decline are going through similar problems), so it could influence how they speak because they might only watch social media shorts and talk in ways that influencers do (some of whom are thoroughly rude or just ignorant about the world).