Do you think the reason so many people seem outrageous today is down to lack of danger?

[Beerus]

This can be the case in the US, Canada, UK, and other developed nations where human rights have peaked and women, homosexuals, different races, religions, and so on can do as they please and live their lives how they want to live it without the danger of being outcasted from the general population, put in prison, or killed. Back in the day, this was not the case and very, very few places allowed women to have rights much less other races or religions outside of said regions' approval or allowed homosexual relationships. Now that people aren't persecuted for these things (at least in most areas), it seems like some of the most outrageous and close-minded thoughts/morals/ideas have spread like wildfire. Critical race theory is one example of this. Another is justifying pedophiles and calling it a "gender identity". Oh, and the growth of people generally pushing for socialism, marxism, and even communism.

I think this is all down to people not having to struggle. People in the US have it so good that we even have overweight and obese homeless people. Let that sink in for a minute. We have all come to rely on a system for work, money, food, shelter, etc. to the point where many adults don't know how to cook, clean, fix things (general labor) grow a garden, tend to plants, or worse... take care of animals/children. I think the boomer generation was the start of this. They had it easy and wanted it to be made even easier. Many still worked hard and learned skills but they had the option not to and many took up that option. Fast forward to "millennials" and "zoomers" and we see a lack of labor skills, a lack of basic understand/commonsense, a lack of education (where it matters), a lack of diversity in thought, a lack of responsibility... I can go on and on. While certainly, this is not the case for everyone, the loud ones seem to be at the frontlines of fighting for "change" and they are looking to destroy what was once good about America and general American culture.

It makes me think of what happened in Africa. How people kept donating clothes, food, etc. to the point where farmers and people on the market lost their livelihood and means to earn so they either moved away or lost everything of value to them. The tribes ended up relying on these care packages so much that anytime donations aren't given, a lot of people suffer and die. I get wanting to help people but giving people free stuff and keeping them reliant on a flawed system is not the way to do it. It helps short-term but hurts so much long-term that it ends up preventing a society from actually growing, expanding, investing, and progressing.

I think this is the case. We have no real threats, no real reasons to come together as a nation... So it is falling apart and people are more concerned with regressing back into tribes, separating everything, and fighting each other over the dumbest stuff than actually ensuring we don't leave this place worse off than when we came in.

Sorry about the rant, was just randomly thinking about this stuff.

 

[Yoshi]

I think that people are self destructive by nature and need to be sheep under law and order, and now that they don't have any real reason to progress as a society, they are creating issues out of thin air.

 

[Super Kami Guru]

There are still struggles out there (ie: please don't just randomly kill trans women just because your sense of masculinity is challenged), but you're right, the more "progressive" society becomes, the more self-destructive humanity becomes as a result. We might live longer, have better understandings of technology, have made countless scientific and medical breakthroughs, gone to space, created the internet to help globalization, and even taught cats to love the boxes their expensive toys came in more than the toys themselves, but humanity still finds ways to make issues out of things. Since the bigger ones are, at least slowly, being eradicated (racism still exists, gender inequality still exists, and LGBTQ+ hatred still very much exists), humanity is finding new and colourful ways to make new problems for ourselves.

You're right, without the struggle we don't know how to adult.

 

[Beerus]

(racism still exists, gender inequality still exists, and LGBTQ+ hatred still very much exists)

Basic human rights and equality is there though. At least for the US. I know this is not the case in the middle-east and other areas.

The general distaste for people that aren't like you (not you, just a general statement here lol) is never going to go away. There will always be people like this and I think it is important to accept that and move on. So long as these people don't have positions of power over others or actively seek to hurt people physically they don't like for whatever reason, I see no issue with it, and constantly fighting over it does nothing for anyone. Humans tend to not like diversity and not in the sense of sex or race but culture and religion. Good aspects of both should be shared but the bad aspects of both, we need to be able to talk about and not find acceptable for society as a whole because the bad aspects of a culture/religion are damaging to people. Does that make sense?

We have done this before and I am sure we will do it again but there are more issues with bad culture vs bad religion today than previously in history (in the west anyway) and I think it will take time for people to admit to this and accept it. Any kind of culture that hurts people or hinders their quality of life shouldn't be praised or spread, it should be discussed and changed or at the very least discouraged. Like we know people use drugs and will continue to use drugs but the culture around it shouldn't be glorified. I think I am getting what I am saying across here. I sometimes have a hard time expressing what I am thinking, me and my dang cat brain lol

 

[Super Kami Guru]

Basic human rights and equality is there though. At least for the US. I know this is not the case in the middle-east and other areas.

Agreed, that's why I said they're slowly being worked on, but yeah, we're getting there as people!

The general distaste for people that aren't like you (not you, just a general statement here lol) is never going to go away. There will always be people like this and I think it is important to accept that and move on. So long as these people don't have positions of power over others or actively seek to hurt people physically they don't like for whatever reason, I see no issue with it, and constantly fighting over it does nothing for anyone.

No one's like me, and I think they're better off for that .

Kidding, I know what you're saying, and you're right, that basic, irrational hatred that exists in far too many people isn't going to just go away. Education's the only solution to that, but even that doesn't work for all sorts, and that's fine.

Humans tend to not like diversity and not in the sense of sex or race but culture and religion. Good aspects of both should be shared but the bad aspects of both, we need to be able to talk about and not find acceptable for society as a whole because the bad aspects of a culture/religion are damaging to people. Does that make sense?

Completely agreed. There are some amazing cultures out there in the world, with some incredible traditions worth sharing, and there are aspects of each religion that any religious person should study and learn from, I completely agree. I also agree that the bad aspects need to be discussed, openly, and not shied away from, but also not followed. Like learning about the Holocaust, it's important to teach it, to understand what happened and why, but it is imperative that the lessons are learned that will ensure it doesn't happen again.

We have done this before and I am sure we will do it again but there are more issues with bad culture vs bad religion today than previously in history (in the west anyway) and I think it will take time for people to admit to this and accept it. Any kind of culture that hurts people or hinders their quality of life shouldn't be praised or spread, it should be discussed and changed or at the very least discouraged. Like we know people use drugs and will continue to use drugs but the culture around it shouldn't be glorified. I think I am getting what I am saying across here. I sometimes have a hard time expressing what I am thinking, me and my dang cat brain lol

I agree with you, the problem is the social media, the rise of the everyman into notoriety via social media, and that everyman then spreading ideas that aren't necessarily well thought-out or intelligent (hi, Paul brothers, PewDiePie, Thots and TikTok whores). That's how we get to where we are today, with kids doing stupid challenges because they see them on social media, people believing ridiculous ideals because someone spread them through social media and they took root without ever really being verified or properly studied, and so on. With the prevalence of social media, it's more important than ever to find ways to countermand the bad, but how that happens...that's a tough one.