| Some 'performers' need comparison to not be whiny little bitches. Some parents make sure their kids get amphetamines before puberty, or testosterone shots. Just so that they come out on top in comparison. If it's not enough, some go as far as to sabotage other families and to poison other kids. This whole social media thing is all that on a global scale. Just a bit more subtle in the early days. But it's still poisoning teens. It's no more than that; sleazy, overwrought, raunchy. It reduced overall competence which means it kept even the top far below potential. But to them it's enough, and the rest only cares for fun, anyway. We will never see what could have been. It's not even future generations' luck that it's so obvious. Nothing can be learned from this that would stop the toxicity. Just fall in line and be boringly, hyper-relatablablaby awesome. It's a showgirl's kind of world. /wu˞…/ (still hitting that depressed tone instead of that cynic, 'noir' kind. Ffs, it's creeping all over me.) |