skykiii
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just so we're clear on our terms (I've seen people fuck this up)... a "Blessing in Disguise" is when something looks or sounds bad, but it actually wound up being a good thing.
Or in other words: Out of something bad... came something good.
A few personal examples:
-The rising prices of retro video games means I'm more likely to buy games I actually want to play, and to actually cherish them when I do. Plus more than once I've benefitted when I had to sell a game I happened to already have that had become valuable.
-I feel like the "Woke" era has forced people to actually think and develop a more subtle and nuanced sense of morality and realize that maybe not all progress is good. As one video I watched recently (sorry don't remember the name) put it, for a long time Americans were all about going full steam ahead on things, but now things have gotten crazy and people are starting to wake up and say "Wait a moment..."
-The Woke era also meant that a lot of genuinely terrible people have basically hung a large sign up that says "I am a horrible person" and thus, well..... if anyone ever wants to become a real life Frank Castle, they have a list already made for them.
-Okay, the copyright stuff on Youtube sucks because a lot of genuine great things came out in the wild west days, but you gotta admit there was also a great deal of youtubers who took the Family Guy route and thought that just making a reference equaled making a good joke, and the copyright nonsense kinda put the kibosh on that.... plus it gives people a reason to use alternative sites.
-Science used to be this monolithic entity, basically the state religion (even before COVID, just look at how pretty much all popular media portrayed religious belief as just a tool of control while science would free us from ignorance). I remember it used to be hard to explain to people that science itself kinda felt like a religion and a tool of control.... and then the COVID era happened, and while most people bought into it at first, nowadays I see people more willing to question science and scientific findings because now its been made clear--as Michael Crichton had been trying to tell us for years--how Science can be misused for personal gain.
-Related to that last one, I used to hate how the only sources you could find questioning science tended to be from a religious perspective, which I knew wouldn't convince anybody who wasn't already on board with them. Nowadays though its way easier to find secular criticism.
So can you think of more?
Or in other words: Out of something bad... came something good.
A few personal examples:
-The rising prices of retro video games means I'm more likely to buy games I actually want to play, and to actually cherish them when I do. Plus more than once I've benefitted when I had to sell a game I happened to already have that had become valuable.
-I feel like the "Woke" era has forced people to actually think and develop a more subtle and nuanced sense of morality and realize that maybe not all progress is good. As one video I watched recently (sorry don't remember the name) put it, for a long time Americans were all about going full steam ahead on things, but now things have gotten crazy and people are starting to wake up and say "Wait a moment..."
-The Woke era also meant that a lot of genuinely terrible people have basically hung a large sign up that says "I am a horrible person" and thus, well..... if anyone ever wants to become a real life Frank Castle, they have a list already made for them.
-Okay, the copyright stuff on Youtube sucks because a lot of genuine great things came out in the wild west days, but you gotta admit there was also a great deal of youtubers who took the Family Guy route and thought that just making a reference equaled making a good joke, and the copyright nonsense kinda put the kibosh on that.... plus it gives people a reason to use alternative sites.
-Science used to be this monolithic entity, basically the state religion (even before COVID, just look at how pretty much all popular media portrayed religious belief as just a tool of control while science would free us from ignorance). I remember it used to be hard to explain to people that science itself kinda felt like a religion and a tool of control.... and then the COVID era happened, and while most people bought into it at first, nowadays I see people more willing to question science and scientific findings because now its been made clear--as Michael Crichton had been trying to tell us for years--how Science can be misused for personal gain.
-Related to that last one, I used to hate how the only sources you could find questioning science tended to be from a religious perspective, which I knew wouldn't convince anybody who wasn't already on board with them. Nowadays though its way easier to find secular criticism.
So can you think of more?
