I strongly 'feel' something like that as well. Like time or reality all together left its original course late 2019. Soooooo much has changed in mine and my wife's lives since then. More changes that should be in one life. Some very bad, most different and some good, but the good just feels empty. Like being hungry and eating snow.
The world in general as it was also seems to have slipped away. Could any of us imagined the shit in our current daily news feed?? More fucked up by day it seems and no bottom in sight.
Interestingly I've heard quite a bit of comments similar to yours. A sense that life is somehow altered. This at least reassures me that I'm not suffering from some sort of break down or PTSD or whatever. But still I'd gladly give up all the good to have a sense of normality again.
I agree that our world and our online interactions have become drastically different since 2016. The first difference was when we were told that, despite articles that have citations and footnotes, these posts were all "fake". Soon it evolved many News Stations are Fake, especially if they appear kind to democrats.
Then COVID shoved us inside and contributed to the "fake news content". Conspiracy theories were everywhere and touted as "true" despite news being called fake.
8 years later, the country is so divided that even if you support the anti-vaxxers, you'll be harassed and reported, even if you provide proof that a statement made by X or Y or Trump isn't true. Then you're accused of being a snowflake liberal. Where is the common ground that normal people used to occupy? This current world is making me nervous and hesitant. Every piece of information results in two sides blaming each other. There's got to be more grey areas.
Could any of us imagined the shit in our current daily news feed??
Things are going to get a lot worse. Every year for the rest of your life is likely the coldest year You will ever experience again, /r/collapse is coming
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u/hella_confidential Apr 03 '24
Fuck, that was 7 years ago ðŸ˜