Do you ever feel like it would have been better to let COVID run its course instead of pushing so hard to contain it? There's so much that went wrong. The shutdowns were a mistake. The mask mandates were a mistake. The vaccine mandates were a mistake. Keeping kids out of school was a devastating mistake. We are so psychologically and socially broken from this and we aren't processing it, much like 9/11 really. We're angry and isolated and falling behind and we're just accepting it. Historians will look back in a few decades and see a distinct change that it's hard to appreciate in the moment because it's a continuing normal right now.
Social media was an unfortunate development for society anyway, but we should have shut it down if we were going to inflict all the other stupid pandemic measures on ourselves. Too many long-simmering resentments broke open because people had a surplus of alone time to sit in front of a computer and marinate in resentment and degeneracy. The manosphere has decimated relations between the sexes, and they weren't great to begin with, although we were holding it together.
We're stuck with the legacy of ZIRP, after it incentivized questionable business choices that are now fully integrated and irreversible. The government also needed to rein it in. It spent far too much money, and money it wouldn't have been convinced it needed to spend if it hadn't shut the country down. What chance did we have when we were getting money hurled at us? The corporations certainly took advantage, and for some reason people never grasped that. Trump and Biden started the problem, but it was corporate greed that took us to nine percent. I hope we get it together soon and realize that we aren't each other's enemies, the corporate class is. Those people loathe us and we're feuding over banal ideological differences. It's ridiculous. That's been going on for some time now, but the pandemic made it worse. Or rather, the pandemic containment measures made it worse.
I've also noticed that I've gotten a lot meaner. I go about my day like normal, but there is something swirling around in my brain that I didn't have before. It's dark. I've become an extremist and it feels good to be one. I know I should pull back but I like hating. I like hating people. It's so much easier to want to hurt people than it is to want to help them, or even tolerate them. I think I would like a Project 2025 in pursuit of my ideology, something that crushed the people I hate and imposed my worldview on an unwilling world. Whatever suffering it inflicted on others doesn't matter because I don't care anymore. I don't know why this has happened. I don't know if it will ever go away.