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Originally Posted by Otter74 View Post
Oh, FFS. People have been making literally exactly this complaint for thousands of years. There were people just like the OP saying the same thing in Latin in Ancient Rome.
And look what happened to Roman civilization...

You might be proving his point.

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Originally Posted by Instrument 41 View Post
Its the promotion of self that is the root of societies current situation.
I would say this is a foundational idea you've mentioned.
However to narrow it down there is promotion of specific aspects.
Namely, feelings and emotions;
Which are more easily manipulated than reason.
A lot of people are becoming the monkeys from the looney toons movie.
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