>>10055Not her, but there's a much darker way of reading "pure-blooded internet society."
The current generation of school age children, Gen Alpha, are often called 'iPad children' due to a combination of internet access and naive/incompetent millennial parents. Zoomers are currently ages whatever through mid-20s. Millennials are 40 now.
In 20 years, all levels of society will be ruled by "digital natives." People who did not know life without the internet will be retiring from various trades and careers (mid-50s is mandatory retirement age for a lot of labor intensive jobs). Every single facet of society will be downstream of online culture. Any forces that shape, contort, control, distort, filter, adapt, shift or serve that culture will have downstream impact in absolutely everything. We can expect the final effect of this to be utterly devastating.
Consider what dating looks like. And consider the fact that if you tried to start a workplace romance today you would be putting yourself at risk, not just in the emotional or social sense involving risk of rejection but in the economic sense that your workplace would probably want to eliminate you, a sane, polite woman behaving like a well mannered adult, for inappropriate behavior. Gen X women did not face that reality. Millennial women did not know a life in which dating apps were the only reasonable means of getting a date once high school or at latest grad school ended. Nearly every facet of social life flows downstream from dating, because male socio/biology prioritizes sexual opportunity and because expenses and economic activity must account for householding etc. - there is already a thread up on the other boards that talks about the downstream impacts of this, "there are no spaces for young people." Movies require a romance subplot and not all movies can be historical, military or fantasy. There are no aspects of culture unaffected, here, today. In 20 years every child will have been conceived by parents who chanced to swipe correctly in some online loneliness misery engine - parents who see nothing wrong with that, who will not raise their children to see what is wrong with that because they know nothing else and because of their entire generational survivorship bias.
