<![CDATA[Popular culture used to play a vital role in holding society together.]]>Popular culture used to play a vital role in holding society together. Someone may have completely opposite political views to you, but if you both laughed at the same sitcom on TV last night, you had something in common. Streaming destroyed that, and now we all hate each other.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/2102c569-56a6-4673-aaa7-fef4a39e9902/popular-culture-used-to-play-a-vital-role-in-holding-society-together.RSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 10:35:24 GMTThu, 19 Mar 2026 12:55:06 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Popular culture used to play a vital role in holding society together. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:18:33 GMT]]>@kolya @anon_opin I have met friends and lovers and an entire career on the Internet and I will still maintain that it was a mistake.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dresstokilt/statuses/116256270829528097https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dresstokilt/statuses/116256270829528097Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:18:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Popular culture used to play a vital role in holding society together. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:45:43 GMT]]>@dresstokilt @anon_opin
I'm old enough to have had a youth without internet. you had to make do with the random idiots you ran across and you didn't even know there were others like you. you can hardly imagine the feeling of liberation when I eventually found a webforum full of people who had the same interests like me. that was the end of some friendships and many acquaintances I had entertained before. some of those online friends turned out to be projection, but it was a net positive for me

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.cologne/users/kolya/statuses/116256141728199496https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.cologne/users/kolya/statuses/116256141728199496Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:45:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Popular culture used to play a vital role in holding society together. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:33:04 GMT]]>@anon_opin yeah, it wasn't streaming. It was a barrage of different news outlets destroying our shared consensus of reality. We don't just hate each other, we don't agree on the basic facts of simple things.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dresstokilt/statuses/116256091963271940https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dresstokilt/statuses/116256091963271940Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:33:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Popular culture used to play a vital role in holding society together. on Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:25:36 GMT]]>@anon_opin We all hate each other because the algorithms manipulate us so we don't look up at the real problem.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://djs.social/users/astromech/statuses/116256062594632739https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://djs.social/users/astromech/statuses/116256062594632739Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:25:36 GMT