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>The current mainstream is incredibly mentally ill because of socioeconomic bullshit
The world is largely the same as it ever was. Everything major can be traced back to our heretofore-unprecedented ability to record and share information, instantly and without limit. Turns out, we aren't really equipped as a species to deal with that - we're better-suited to our insular little tribes, our families and neighborhoods and congregations - so being confronted with The Other on a daily basis is frightening. It divides us; it compels us to dig, to see if the person we're engaging with is really "one of us", to call out trespasses, and to root out people as faithless saboteurs. In other words, it afflicts us with the mistrust and paranoia that are by now hallmarks of the past 15 years.

Pining for the Old Internet is a bit like pining for the Old West. It was a romantic notion that only existed for its ephemerality, a transitory state. You can't really have a frontier spirit without a frontier, not in any palpable sense; to do otherwise is to cling to ghosts.

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