How has 2020 changed you? - For the better or for the worse?

[ArnoldPalmer]

Never said it wouldn't!

 

[Bongocat]

I've learned that the value of a human life is determined by their status as a friend or an enemy.

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

2020 made my job easier as I was given less to do, whereas some couples seem to have struggled, my relationship grew closer. Overall nothing changed, I never believed the media and it's gotten to the point where I assume everything on tv is fake or lies. Far more healthier to focus on what's right in front of you than what's on a screen anyway.

I might be getting more religious than agnostic-who-leans-towards-Christian-Values now. It's pretty clear that Secular America has brought out the absolute worst in everyone, and we are taking a serious deathspiral into the morally repugnant and degenerate. I am still in conflict with this, because Christianity has few answers to the question of what you're supposed to do to get your society back to a point where bringing children into this world isn't an act of abject cruelty, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. In the meantime, Christian morality beats the shit out of moral subjectivism.

Christianity doesn't have an answer to save your society because that was never it's mission, the new testimony is more about how to survive a hostile world rather than salvage it, Christians only started "salvaging" it when they became the majority (hint hint demographics) and how they conducted themselves in their community, they projected into society. The church fathers also discussed that very question about bringing children into this "cruel" world. Simple put mate the future belongs to those who show up and the meek shall inherit the earth.

 

[Baby Cakes]

Being a mostly misanthropic person, none of this affected me. I bought parts for my classic muscle car, traveled America, visited some national parks, helped my family move, and continued to watch everyone lose their minds. People like me will survive it all and maybe then there will finally be some fucking peace on this rock.

 

[mindlessobserver]

2020 made me realize I hated the city and everyone in it. So I moved out. My tax dollars will no longer subsidize those ungrateful parasites and their pet hobos.

 

[Pickle Dick]

2020 was something of a mixed bag for me.

On one hand, and while I haven't developed a sense of nihilism and misanthropy like most of the other people here, I have at the very least come to realize how genuinely awful some people are, not to mention how the true colors of some people have fully risen out of that year. I've also realized how incompetent the governments are, along with the politicians and government officials that really don't realize what they're doing.

On the other hand, 2020 did really give me a lot more time to develop my interest in hobbies I've been pondering about for years, and I've been leaning back into being a more religious person. So overall, I think 2020 has changed me for the better somewhat, though I've become suspicious towards the big institutions at the same time.

 

[Tad Loaf]

Made life a little easier with how much work can be done online now that jobs actually opened the path. Otherwise not much, 2020 was kind of comfy in retrospect.

 

[Gensou Hadou]

I hate people now. I've learned that people will put up with anything. I also believe that my best days are behind me, so I'm not so much living as I am waiting for when something finally gets the courage to kill me. Most importantly, I've learned not to take a normal life for granted.

 

[Blake Chortles]

I grew much closer to God and have a much greater clarity on where I stand in this world. I also became a father.

It was one of the hardest years of my life but ultimately one of the best because of this.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Honestly, 2020 was a mixed bag for me in the grand scheme of it all.

In the short-term it fucked with my initial hopes that Woke Leftism would eventually burn itself out on its own due to both the BLM coup and the 2020 election solidifying its strength.

It also put several major plans for my life on delay for another year due to lockdowns.

In the long-term though, it was the wake up call that I sorely needed and as a result, I quit drinking and became more mindful of my own money. I've become more meticulous in planning for my future and have made several major life changes that have so far turned out for the better.

I'm now completely debt-free, which gives me a massive leg up as opposed to other Late Millennials and Zoomers, even in this Great Reset.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I think it changed me a lot better, but not because of anything directly related to world affairs. Just that I was always a late bloomer socially and I became a lot more sociable this past year.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I'm now completely debt-free, which gives me a massive leg up as opposed to other Late Millennials and Zoomers, even in this Great Reset.

Absolutely. Debt is a surrender of control over your life. As a temporary measure it can be useful in some circumstances, but long-term debt is a killer. Good for you for escaping that.

 

[Billy Beer]

I've lost all of my motivation, have no interest in socialising and can't be arsed doing the small chores that I used to enjoy. I'm smoking daily now just as a routine, want to quit but enjoy it too much and there's no reason to quit.

I've gone from meticulously clean, organised and morally strong, to a scruffy, disorganised pussy. I used to wear my opinions on my sleeve and i would say it how it is, now i just smile and nod because i have no interest in interacting with people, including women. I used to be a pussy hound, now i couldn't give a fuck.

What's hit me the hardest though is that i was always independent and did shit i wanted to do when i wanted to do it. Now i'm 'waiting' for something before i do shit.

/miserablepost

 

[The Wicked Mitch]

I used to believe at least 50% of the population were degenerate subhumans, in reality it was apparently 95%+ all along and I now fully understand both modern elites and all of human history when it comes to dealing with the general population.

 

[Mukhrani]

It really pruned my friend groups down. I used to have two distinct, non-intersecting groups of friends. Liberal-leaning friends from college, and more redneck, blue collar friends from the rural area that I grew up in. The former went batshit crazy during the pandemic and refused to hang out or visit with anyone. Then BLM hit, and they all went off the fucking deep end and started posting on Facebook about how people like me and my entire family are subhuman scum (not specifically, just general venomous hatred of rural white people). I think that, for people like that, isolation lead them to become kind of unhinged to begin with. It forced all social interactions to be filtered through social media, which in turn pumped the efficacy of the standard algorithm-driven propaganda up to 110. By the end of 2020 I just saw most of them as lost causes, and realized that they were never going to go back to their carefree, moderate selves who could take a joke or critically approach a controversial topic. The brain worms were terminal.

I also lost some faith in the medical industry. I used to take what they said with a grain of salt, but watching doctors browbeat family members and friends who had already had Covid (confirmed cases) into taking a vaccine distributed under a EUA just left a really bad taste in my mouth. I used to take what doctors said with the same measured skepticism that I would give to any expert, now I outright expect them to push treatments on me with little to no efficacy. There are plenty of good doctors out there; a good friend of mine who was pregnant had a doctor who explained the risks to her and told her that it was a bad idea for her to take it because her risk group hadn't seen extensive enough testing. But between the opioid epidemic, Vioxx, and now this I'm just much more jaded about them in general.

Journalists, on the other hand, I see as total and irredeemable scum at this point. Any lingering shred of respect that I had for their profession was destroyed by 2020.

 

[Meat Target]

My account at Fucks-to-Give Bank seems perpetually overdrawn.

I used to believe at least 50% of the population were degenerate subhumans, in reality it was apparently 95%+ all along and I now fully understand both modern elites and all of human history when it comes to dealing with the general population.

Are you basing that opinion on what you see in meatspace, or online? Because 2020 also showed me how the news and the internet are utterly divorced from reality.

The endless barrage of propaganda and gaslighting would not be necesssary if the situation were hopeless. The fact that TPTB need it shows there are enough people who are resistant to their bullshit to threaten their hegemony.

I'm not saying everything is fine and dandy. But there are still decent, non-insane people in this world, and you'll see them once you take your eyes off the screen. Only 10% of America is on Twitter, and 90% of tweets come from 10% of *that* 10%.

There's a vast difference between accepting the gravity of reality ("being redpilled") and being a moping, bedwetting doomer. The blackpill is the way of the coward.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

Are you basing that opinion on what you see in meatspace, or online? Because 2020 also showed me how the news and the internet are utterly divorced from reality.

Not me who wrote that, but I agree with it, and I have two things to say:

1. There is no dividing line between The Internet and The Meatsphere anymore. Yes, there is a hard, physical, division between the tangible and the digital, but now that the general public have had a year (or more!) to stew on the internet, and only the internet, they only know how to behave like they do on the internet. Within the context of what the other guy was trying to say, I don't think the answer to that question matters as much as it did, even in 2015. For better or worse, people are more honest now than they've ever been in public. I'd like it, only if people weren't so concerned over shit that doesn't matter.

Touching grass isn't an escape anymore. The busybody trogs and the government are going to try and catch you, no matter how far innawoods you go.

2. The situation IS hopeless, because nobody is gonna get off their dead asses and put this unbelievably horrible corpse of a government to pasture. What you're seeing with the 'propaganda and gaslighting' is the equivalent of telling everyone on an imploding space ship to 'calm down, help is on the way' so as to distract them for just long enough to catch a ride on the last escape pod. We're in this for the long-haul, and every day it's going to get worse.

 

[Kiwisee]

My patience for losers has gone down A LOT.

I have come to realize that there are so many people in my age group who aren’t resourceful at all.

 

[Lagomorph Guy]

I have radicalized beyond the point of no return.

 

[Billy Beer]

Yes, there is a hard, physical, division between the tangible and the digital, but now that the general public have had a year (or more!) to stew on the internet, and only the internet, they only know how to behave like they do on the internet.

Quoted for Truth.

Do they only know how to behave like they do on the internet, or do they prefer to behave how they do on the internet, because the dopamine hit fills them with warm fuzzy?