Basement Whatever

What if the kids are alright?

considering all the content i consume about society’s rapid decline, it’s consistently disorienting to put the phone down, step outside, and look at how little has changed since my childhood.

And more:

we have spent roughly equal amounts of time letting strangers on the internet tell us what the world is like as we have actually experiencing the world on our own

From the comments:

I think we’re starting to see this—people setting fire to “permission mindsets” with extreme prejudice. And seeing “if it bleeds, it leads” bad news for what it is—junk food that doesn’t belong in a healthful information diet.