What a bizarre thing to be upset about. It sounds like the guy had a screw loose.
SocialMediaRefugee
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How dare they ask me how I'm doing! None of their damn business!
I treat people like that like I'm dealing with a rabid dog. I detach emotionally and treat them like a thing to be careful around.
Probably because it was a popular name for a while so the odds they'd have that name are good.
Another name ruined
Sounds like they were in quite a pickle.
"I'll give you $5 if you sniff it."
Yup. You look through history and FAR worse shit has happened in the past, even the recent past. The present though is what everyone has to deal with and that is your burden to bear best you can. Like you said, you see this sort of thing go in waves.
I know this sounds like a pat on the head but you also have to count your blessings in life and not just obsess over the things that are wrong with it or you'll always be miserable and never able to find any happiness. To say "everything is shit" is as unrealistic as saying "everything is wonderful".
"Do you believe our species will ever reach some form of enlightenment"
If there is anything history has taught me is that we repeat the same basic behavior over and over and have done so as far back as we can see. We are essentially very intelligent monkeys, obsessed with social status, manipulation, altruism and cooperation mixed with hostility and exploitation. I think the basic sociology of humans is baked into our DNA and the very nature of animal life. People have always imagined they can create some utopia on earth but it always ends up a failure because of the very nature of man and the impossibility of even defining a utopia for everyone.
If you are Elon Musk it is looking amazing right now.
In old fashioned diners in the US the older woman would call you "Honey" frequently. This seems to bother the woke crowd. Me, I like the old school waitresses.