Yup the hype around monetisation is a scourge. It makes you me question so much of what I see, do. I hate being so suspicious. I feel like even simple life transactions are up for sale ‘see this one cleaning hack to change your life’ … idiot on a video wanders around with a duster like it’s a new invention. Even idiots filming every bite of an average sandwich. I sound old.
I’ve seen many youtubers my family follow start out doing a thing - gaming, celebrity gossip, cleaning tips, guitar accessories reviews, whatever - and once they get to a certain size they’re in the drive thru at McDonald’s filming themselves eating a meal as an entire 15 minute video and people fucking watch it.
Thats what we are doing now. They make money trying to manipulate human interaction.
The only thing I know is that there’s a shitload of really nice people out there, willing to help with whatever.
Maybe your perception is screwed by depression?
Depression is definitely a factor for many people. But the death of 3rd spaces is fairly well documented. The problem is that many people don’t know how to make friends. Friends very rarely happen instantly, they usually are a result of repeated and consistent interactions. Adults rarely seek out situations that would give them those types of interactions outside of work and school.
Wait, when?
If we’re talking medieval times, nope had a lord to worry about
If we’re talking bronze age, nope we were working farms for a lord precursor.
If we’re talking prehistory, nope the men were murdering each other and the women captured as trophies.Try studying non-european history. Pre-historic communities in north America were generally pretty chill.
There are plenty examples of communal matriarchal preindustrial societies, enough that anthropologists suspect that was the norm for prehistory. It’s the invention of property, and thus inheritance and wealth accumulation and lineage, that leads to patriarchy and domination.
Göbekli Tepe is the only one that comes to mind, and maybe Çatalhöyük.
But what worries me is the skeletal remains that we find of males at dig sites with vast amounts of damage to them, and significantly less women and girl skeletal remains. Aeons later and the heterogeneity of the Y chromosome is suspiciously low in contrast to that shown in mtDNA.
To me that suggests a lot of killing and raping.
Or that prehistoric women and girls were extraterrestrial beings who, by and large, simply teleported away and died off-world, thus not leaving remains for us to find.
Hale-Bopp is absolutely chock full of the remains of prehistoric women. It’s crazy up there. Can’t even play hopscotch, what with all the femurs and skulls everywhere.
I feel this hard. I swing dance and my local scene sucks. There’s no college club for the scene to be based around so everyone who organizes and teaches is out to make money from it. I ran my college club (which was open to community members) and I’ve had them ask me how to increase involvement and they really don’t like it when I tell them it’s far too expensive to dance around here.
