what is happening society and why is everyone experiencing an existential crisis? 

it seems like the last couple of years has been fraught with tension after tension

the catholic church scandal, the me too movement, blm, stop asian hate, trump, trans politics etc etc 

but why?

founder ~ spuddie.ai ✨twitter.com/emmabwaldron

actively working on a thesis about how the internet has accelerated cultural globalization leading to context collapse, and the result is that interpersonal meaning is dead in the water

we don't know each other anymore

we only know everything else

so we fight with facts

instead of connecting with wonder

i'd rather kill the radio and listen to the rain hit.

We know everything else - aren’t people, different cultures (exposure to them through the internet and access to information) part of that though?

the idea is that we believe our "exposure" to other cultures through the internet is a proper representation of those people's experience

so we generalize and stereotype our neighbor, instead of getting to know them as a person

we become armchair experts, rather than friends