Since about 2008, I have felt rather disconnected from the culture and things make less and less sense. I get people are different and I deal with neurodiversity, but as time goes on it seems like things have more euphemisms and are abstracted away from the reality of things. To put it another way as gold was to paper money is how money started and then the paper took on a life of its own and even that was abstracted away to digital transfers, deposits and currencies. It seems like things that should have substance do not and you need to go so far up the food chain in order to find interesting things.

I think there are a lot of reasons and causes, but it seems curiosity and creativity were snuffed out and everyone acts like they work for IBM. That is not to deny the advancements in medicine , supersonic jets, and so on, but it just seems like it used to be at least enclaves for the weirdos of society, whereas those are now occupied by extroverts and opportunists.