Ask HN: Is it just me or has everything stopped happening in the world?
It seems there aren't any world events anymore, other than my own personal matters I haven't noticed anything going on in the world. Is it just me or is there nothing going on in the world anymore?
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What's frustrating, perhaps, is that nothing is getting resolved. Neither the pandemic nor the Ukraine invasion are resolving, and may not do so for months to years. It's frustrating. It's not the same as "nothing is happening", though.
I wrote this in 2019...
These are just my personal observations, but it makes perfect sense that collective negativity colors the zeitgeist a certain way. Just find friends where you can and do what makes you happy. You can't change everything wrong with the world in a day.
I don’t know where you live but I’m honestly surprised that Covid or the Russian invasion of Ukraine hasn’t had an impact on your day to day life.
- I read great deep analysis of Putin,
- I read great deep analysis of sanctions, price of Ruble vs USD
- I read about Putin's inner circle
- On a different subject I read analysis of Xi's political thinking and international relations
- On technical subjects, I read interesting new hardware benchmarks
- On technical subjects I read about new protocols, new types of compression, different things about blockchain and even the darkweb
- I read about issues of free speech online, the effect of platforms on speech, etc, things like that
I haven't seen anything like these high-quality subjects in a while now.
There's too many overproduced elites, and if you are not willing to play ball, there's 80 guys willing to "denounce" you and take your job.
[1] https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/crises-of-elite-c...
">“Wokeness,” for the purposes of this essay, refers in broad strokes to a cultural, social, and ideological movement in the West that challenges previously accepted cultural narratives (the very narratives that prior eras of relatively stable political consensus relied on), and increasingly determines outcomes in primarily elite institutions. Surviving the academy, getting a job in journalism or a major tech company, filling out a grant form: these are just some of the activities that increasingly require one to be adept at navigating (and by necessity, parroting) the cultural mores of a new social faith."
I edited this because I couldn't reply. FYI
My point is, how can you critically read an article when the terms are vague?
>“Wokeness,” for the purposes of this essay, refers in broad strokes to a cultural, social, and ideological movement in the West that challenges previously accepted cultural narratives (the very narratives that prior eras of relatively stable political consensus relied on), and increasingly determines outcomes in primarily elite institutions. Surviving the academy, getting a job in journalism or a major tech company, filling out a grant form: these are just some of the activities that increasingly require one to be adept at navigating (and by necessity, parroting) the cultural mores of a new social faith.
And furthermore, they explicitly say that "wokeness" is irrelevant and the problems come from somewhere else:
>Explanatory models referencing some pathology native to Western ideology or a dismal “Faustian spirit” cannot explain what is happening in East Asia today. Understanding the increasingly acute problems facing young people there, at first glance so different from our own concerns, can ultimately offer a clearer view of what has gone wrong in the West.
> “Wokeness,” for the purposes of this essay, refers in broad strokes to a cultural, social, and ideological movement in the West that challenges previously accepted cultural narratives (the very narratives that prior eras of relatively stable political consensus relied on), and increasingly determines outcomes in primarily elite institutions.
Like, radiation cleanup operations will resume once radiation has reduced to a safe level. um, little problem there chief.