Trending: A Personal View

This decline in respect for authority/authorities/experts started in the early 2000s as truth suddenly became more fashionably “relative” and subjective.
There has been a similar decline in consumption of more objective truth via newspapers and journalism.
One major problem with all this distraction and decline in the ability to focus and process critically is that most people can’t make distinctions in perception, understanding, and appreciation.
‘The Other’ is automatically distrusted and to be resisted and dumped on. So much for empathy, sympathy and ‘walk a mile in my shoes’.
Complaining seems to be more hard-wired.
People have become more simple-minded and as Covid works its numbing way this past year, there’s been a serious decline in cognitive skills being reported.
And, of course, the great dumbing down that has accompanied e-media supplanting print and books of olde.
Quite a negative, cynical, toxic mix.
A far cry from the Youngbloods’ “C’mon people now, smile on your brother. Everybody get together, try and love one another right now.”
Money/economics and lust for power continue to drive ending restrictions, insurrections, injustice, and larger chaos generally. (The Liberals’/Canadian government’s response to residential schools: give ’em billions for their water crisis to shut them up again.)
And climate change has already come home to roost.