late night thought of today: lately it has come to me that we are reaching a point in the world almost as unbearable as it was back in 2020/2021. honestly my question is gonna sound like a minor intervention compared to what im about to write as back context but, anyways. i feel like covid worked as kind of a timeline for everything to just go downhill, i think it all started in the quarantine.
as we see it now, i have never thought of times in history where WW3 would be happening and being made fun of, the extreme hate towards women and the rise of the toxic masculinity, tiktok culture, influencer culture, and so on so on. i think its not hard to wake up everyday and diagnose a problem in the world. although as i recall , everytime something happend people used to always find a way to connect with eachother and create something good where evil lives, which nowadays , its everywhere.
but even in the spaces where everyone claims to be different, more down to earth, out of the box, comprehensive, and so on so on, we can find that maybe, they are more or equally fucked as everyone else around. a good example is attempting to find an online community these days where people are actually nice towards everyone, everyone can chat and get along without having one of what i call the Big 2026 List; which literally is a comic way to call out the victim complex people, the judging people, the people that truly believe tiktok life rules like the propaganda that being apathetic egocentrics is "healing era" is the way to go, because honestly i find nothing on the internet besides that. and the fact that these are just examples its insane, because i genuienly find myself believing we are devolving as society.
today i watched a video online of a girl commenting on how makeup trends changed over the years and how back in 2016, teenage girls used to rock highschool wearing big ass mauve lips or extremly bright pink lipstick, and nowadays we resume ourselves to the huge abudance of blush and natural side of looks, which as she said, has a good side to it because girls now feel more comfortable to go out without makeup or be more natural than the full cakey glam that 2016 tumblr used to incite on us. but to what point is that true? have we really helped girls and women feel comfortable with themselves over these years or have we just basically told everyone that being basic is better than having an identity? or have we created a reality where women are more and more property of what men think and men dont think other than truly just being themselves? these arent even questions i put myself, but real reflections someone on the video had made. and of course someone had to go and say "its not that deep" but nowadays it is that deep. we arent at a point in history where the bra revolution is happening, or the appearence of rock music but we have our big steps and to be fair, these "not that deep" situations are creating a much bigger ball than we realize they are, and this excluding the big ones we know like the rise of AI content and war for example.
so for tonight, as i know probably 6% of people read this till the end, i leave everyone this question: are we devolving as a society, and what has made that happen over the years?