{"id":152308,"date":"2025-03-23T20:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T20:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/why-did-2024-feel-so-unreal\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T20:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T20:23:13","slug":"why-did-2024-feel-so-unreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=152308","title":{"rendered":"Why did 2024 feel so unreal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tcocdn.com\/tco\/images\/Huck\/4825629d-7275-478d-64ac-1588ccf757db.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That\u2019s just a mini-sampler of the full menu of insanity we have been served over the last 12 months, which has given 2024 a sort of hyperreal feel. A girl who became a meme over a blowjob joke has her own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c89xvjkzzyvo\">cryptocurrency<\/a>, anything can happen now. Though I suspect what we\u2019re actually experiencing is the true aftermath of the pandemic. It\u2019s nailed on now that any hopes of society emerging from those years of upheaval improved \u2013 that we would learn the error of our ways and slow down, consume less, prioritise better \u2013 were way off. Looking around, it\u2019s obvious that things got a lot better for, like, six guys, and much, <em>much<\/em> worse for everybody else. That clash of emotion \u2013 rage over incomprehensible short-term idiocy, but also a sense of futility that leaves you with no option but to say \u2018fuck it, we ball\u2019 \u2013 has underscored this entire year, and will probably continue into 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There has been a fracture between cause and response. Stupid evil things keep happening, and we simply endure how stupid and evil they are while working 50 hours a week and listening to <em>Brat<\/em>. There is no coherent logic to anything. No do <em>this<\/em>, get <em>that<\/em>. No 2+2=4. As a result, the social contract has broken down. That\u2019s why everyone has responded to the murder of a healthcare CEO with whimsy and delight \u2013 fancam edits, lookalike competitions, frilly underwear with \u201cdeny\u201d, \u201cdepose\u201d, \u201cdefend\u201d stitched on the front \u2013 and it\u2019s also why a 26-year-old man who could have done anything with his life chose to pick up a gun and murder a healthcare CEO in the first place.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re in full Joker mode. We could be told that a comet will hit Earth in two days and our immediate response would be to make it into a meme and, somehow, AI porn. This probably doesn\u2019t bode well for the fabric of society going forward, but at the same time it could have been avoided if people weren\u2019t handing most of their earnings over to medical, energy, and water companies just to have an EpiPen, cook pasta, and get a parasite from swimming in the ocean because it\u2019s full of poo. So, you know\u2026 your move, \u201csociety.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s just a mini-sampler of the full menu of insanity we have been served over the last 12 months, which has given 2024 a sort of hyperreal feel. A girl who became a meme over a blowjob joke has her own cryptocurrency, anything can happen now. 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