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I feel like deeper conversations are still to be had with the people who understand you most, even if you're not the closest with them IRL or online. That said, it doesn't happen for me as much as I'd like it to for a number of circumstances.
That said, is it just me, or is everyone we see in daily life looking like they aged 10 years in the last few? People in the grocery store checkout, office workplace, manufacturing floor, next door, whatever human interaction capacity. Are we all aging like crazy from sheer lack of certainty in anything anymore?
Or like, is our planet's 420ppm carbon dioxide level (which if I'm doing my mental math correctly is a 30% increase in atmospheric CO2 from just 1980ish) actually really fucking terrible for humans and we are dying as a species in real time, right before our eyes???
Fuck me.
I mean we're fersure getting dumber.
Also this might actually be a decent deep conversation starter. (I guess we should keep trying to compensate for the CO2 dumbness somehow.)
we're not getting dumber, the dumber people are just louder and much more confident (except americans maybe, purposeful lack of investment into their public education system means they probably are getting dumber)
yeah, that and simplified stupid things resonate with more people. soundbytes by idiots are louder and go further than expert essays by academics, which nobody reads.