Do you prefer the world around you in your younger years or these days?

[belamyi]

I am very glad I grew up long before the advent of social media

You mean before radio, TV and mass press media.

 

[belamyi]

It's such a mixed bag. When I was young I was more hopeful and had more energy and people around me seemed nicer.

 

[belamyi]

Now I have more legal freedoms but some people don't seem so nice.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I do not have hopes that we will ever overcome the mental masturbation addiction of "smart phones".

They are a chief reason for the rise in narcissism, the lowering of citizenship, and the general corrosion of self-control leading to violence in society.

Regardless of gay progress or not, the world was a far better place when all you could do on a mobile phone was talk to someone.

We don't need to be digitally entertained when we are among other people away from our homes.

If you have to log into a computer, then you are properly limiting your distraction time and are going to learn social skills by being among people rather than present in body only.

Ear buds can also go to hell.

 

[belamyi]

The thing that repelled me most about younger days is younger people being so cocksure about how was the world and would always be and, obviously, of their own position in it: what's the point of having a blast when you may end up regretting it the rest of your existence, and it is preventing you from realizing what you would start asking others to realize twenty years later to those who always knew it, or to those who would laugh at you like you did when you were their age...
I do not care about the moment, but about the meaning of the moment... one thing is to let yourself go with the moment and enjoy it, and another just drift along enjoying the course... until the course reaches the rapids and, eventually...

 

[belamyi]

I do not have hopes that we will ever overcome the mental masturbation addiction of "smart phones".

They are a chief reason for the rise in narcissism, the lowering of citizenship, and the general corrosion of self-control leading to violence in society.

Regardless of gay progress or not, the world was a far better place when all you could do on a mobile phone was talk to someone.

We don't need to be digitally entertained when we are among other people away from our homes.

If you have to log into a computer, then you are properly limiting your distraction time and are going to learn social skills by being among people rather than present in body only.

Ear buds can also go to hell.

There is nothing you coul do "back in the days" that you can not do just the same today... and, honestly, the sort of "someones" you refer to are the same narcissist etc. that simply showed it differently... actually, still do, only with smartphones added.
I am not happy with just "someone"

It's funny how people make of other people the same thing they do with "God": a mirror of themselves, and that a misanthrope or a cynic is actually less self-centered and people-hating than most "normal people"... who mostly only care about THEIR people (family, tribe etc.)

 

[pornoboy]

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[TickTockMan]

I preferred my life before I had the breakdown. I do enjoy the emotions I got though.

 

[NotHardUp1]

There is nothing you coul do "back in the days" that you can not do just the same today... and, honestly, the sort of "someones" you refer to are the same narcissist etc. that simply showed it differently... actually, still do, only with smartphones added.
I am not happy with just "someone"

It's funny how people make of other people the same thing they do with "God": a mirror of themselves, and that a misanthrope or a cynic is actually less self-centered and people-hating than most "normal people"... who mostly only care about THEIR people (family, tribe etc.)

No. It's self-evident that the phones provide a greater opportunity for selfishness than ever before. And the pravence is greatly increased due to the technology. Preach about your concept og God all you like, but the rudeness omnipresent is new and a marked change in society, not projection.

Whether the proclivity to selfishness was latent previously is not the question. The issue is the expressed behavior, which is broadly noted.

 

[belamyi]

No. It's self-evident that the phones provide a greater opportunity for selfishness than ever before. And the pravence is greatly increased due to the technology. Preach about your concept og God all you like, but the rudeness omnipresent is new and a marked change in society, not projection.

Whether the proclivity to selfishness was latent previously is not the question. The issue is the expressed behavior, which is broadly noted.

WE are saying the same thing: we acknowledge it has always been there, but you are pissed because the newer technology had made it for you more difficult to ignore.

You seem the sort who would not care about tiny fly shit sprinkled all over and around, and will wait to cry out loud when it appears as one big stinky cow splatter.

 

[rareboy]

As a damaged, bitter and unhappy adult, I like to spend a lot of time in the past. There are worse ways to achieve solace.

I think your take on this has less to do with your views on how things are these days than the wisdom of simply having lived. Coping with how one reacts to the world around them is one of the perks of aging. It's a necessary, infinitely helpful and surprisingly easy skill to learn.

To have the same coping strategy when one is in their twenties would suck all the joy out of being young.

I think you are right...but I was born old and had coping strategies of a middle aged person because of how much I read and the things I read that gave me perspective on the darker side of my own life until I emerged as a fully developed, unrepentant and successful homo.

 

[peeonme]

Cocksucking should provide you with a modicum of your daily sodium requirement.

See what I did there?

If you add cheese you get vitamins and minerals...

 

[purina]

Head cheese?

 

[belamyi]

If you add cheese you get vitamins and minerals...

Adding cheese to me is like adding salt to the ocean.

Even my legal first surname is a wordplay on Spanish for 'cheese'.

 

[belamyi]

Head cheese?

No, not American cheese: we have been clear about that more than once before.

 

[Peloso]

Oddly, there is no nutritional profile of smegma on the internet.

 

[Alistair]

Oddly, there is no nutritional profile of smegma on the internet.

You didn’t look Hard enough

 

[hagTreehouse]

Younger years mos def! Having lived a life after the birth control pill was invented but before AIDS, the sexual exploits of my youth were stratosphericly better than now. (Although PeEP helps.)
We were going to the moon regularly. Not just when Ralph Kramden sent us there. There were whorehouses everywhere, Glory holes everywhere, dirty bookstores everywhere. Swinger clubs, gay bars everywhere. (Shit, sounds like a Kander and Ebb lyric.) Hell, even your local video store had an adult section.

Now admittedly with this hand held device I’m tapping this missive on. I can experience all that without leaving home. Maybe except whorehouses and glory holes. But there’s an app for that. One must JOIN and pay for!! We even ended Craigslist personals the greatest free gay cruising site ever!! A few messages and you’re on your knees sucking dick.

But I felt
in the year 2025,
if man were still alive.
We’d be on Mars on the way to Jupiter.
And war would be so far less puke-I-er (sorry had to rhyme!)

Social media, You Porn, JUB, DoorDash, X not withstanding.
The doubling down on social isolation troubles me.

When I sit in a restaurant and at the next booth some high school kids sitting buried on their devices
NOT speaking to their ‘friends’ right in front of them.
NOT even sharing what they see on their devices (probably forwarding messages to them across the table.)
It just makes me sad. I remember being at the malt shoppe having fun getting milkshakes coming out of the nose of my buddies when I’d crack them up.
Now kids just text LOL

If I sound like drunk uncle, so be it.
I miss the 70s, lived through the 60s now I’m in my 60s
So if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna listen to my 8tracks now!

 

[unloadonme]

I miss family members who have died and do not particularly enjoy the company of family members born to replace them. I would happily turn the clock back.

 

[rareboy]

I miss family members who have died and do not particularly enjoy the company of family members born to replace them. I would happily turn the clock back.

I think that I have mentioned that while we love our nephew and neice and their children, we don't particularly like our great nephews.