- 27 Jul 2017 20:57
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@Political Interest when you complain about modernity you are implicitly comparing it to the past. You can't complain about how today sucks without critically comparing it to the past. Things will change in the future because everything changes in the end, but to simply decry the progress we've made is extremely annoying.
Coming back with "oh you silly modern westerners don't understand my superior vision of what the world could be but I'm not going to make any effort to outline that and will just complain about modernity and the dirty evil westerners who annoy me when they point out that things are better now than ever before" is ridiculous.
You can talk about ways to improve things, but that's not what your doing. You are whining in just as hipstery and middle class a way as complaining about technology and how people just don't communicate anymore.
Coming back with "oh you silly modern westerners don't understand my superior vision of what the world could be but I'm not going to make any effort to outline that and will just complain about modernity and the dirty evil westerners who annoy me when they point out that things are better now than ever before" is ridiculous.
You can talk about ways to improve things, but that's not what your doing. You are whining in just as hipstery and middle class a way as complaining about technology and how people just don't communicate anymore.
My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.