The last couple decades have really accelerated though, because the tendrils of capital leaching into everything and sucking people’s attention spans out of their fucking skulls so now children and adults alike can’t sit still and listen to anything for more than 10 minutes at a time.
I work with and manage teams of people and have for many years. It was never this bad. This isn’t localized to young people and the schooling situation, this is widespread across all layers of modern society. I have professionals I deal with who have the work skills and attention spans of teenagers with their first job, and this is just common now.
Of course people are tuned out and not paying attention to politics and policy, we can’t get people broadly to tune into the things that actually impact their immediate surroundings and life unless it’s a 3-minute vertical clip with subway surfers playing on the bottom half and a streamer reacting in the corner.
How are we this stupid?
Republicans are in control
“fascists” is a more apt description
Those are the same picture.
exactly. that’s why we should stick to the more accurate description.
they don’t want to conserve shit, they want fascism.
3-4 decades of purposefully undermining public education
More like 5-7 decades… “anti-nerd” culture has been popular since about the 50’s
The last couple decades have really accelerated though, because the tendrils of capital leaching into everything and sucking people’s attention spans out of their fucking skulls so now children and adults alike can’t sit still and listen to anything for more than 10 minutes at a time.
I work with and manage teams of people and have for many years. It was never this bad. This isn’t localized to young people and the schooling situation, this is widespread across all layers of modern society. I have professionals I deal with who have the work skills and attention spans of teenagers with their first job, and this is just common now.
Of course people are tuned out and not paying attention to politics and policy, we can’t get people broadly to tune into the things that actually impact their immediate surroundings and life unless it’s a 3-minute vertical clip with subway surfers playing on the bottom half and a streamer reacting in the corner.
A large portion of people are stupid, it’s sad
It’s Alabama, so inbreeding.
Don’t be so harsh on yourself. You are most definitely not as stupid as US Republicans.
Why do you say “we?” I had no part in this bill, and you probably didn’t either.