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The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"
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Except you see this kind of crazy in very specific places. Places that have a very specific religion as the cultural foundation, a very specific history of believing themselves at the top (often because of that very same specific religion's teachings!), and a very long-term growing cultural rot making said place ready to collapse at a moment's notice.
The increased solar activity that is supposedly causing our regression as a species is nothing particularly out of the ordinary. I was born in solar cycle 20. We are currently at or near the peak of solar cycle 25. So this is my sixth time around the solar activity ride. Of those six, the one I was born into was lower than this cycle's peak activity, the next three exceeded it, and the penultimate one was approximately the same as now.
So instead of looking outward and blaming the sun, how 'bout looking inward and blaming the culture? Introspection will do literally infinitely more good in figuring out your fucked-up society.
I get it, my comment was more of a long form insult to the idiots of the world that even a batshit insane person can tell something is wrong with them.
completely agree it's a culture problem. honestly, Americans have always been like this but things like "reality TV" and online "content creators" have lowered the thresholds of what is socially acceptable. if anything, the privatization and capitalization of the internet only increased the pace in which the transformation of our society happened.
I fear the only options available to rectify these issues with the culture will be damaging to not just society at large, but to individuals as well.
You are rapidly approaching the point, if you haven't already crossed it I mean, where the only solution to your nation's culture rot will involve a lot of bloodshed. There is a very deep sickness in the USA that may not be fixable without extreme measures if it's not handled quickly.