Found this a few days ago:
Source: If you like reading others’ comments
I agree with him to a certain degree. Some things were better before, some not.
And some shit really gets worse.
Sadly, nuanced stuff doesn’t get many responses in our world.
A slop part.
Take architecture, for example.
Humans built gorgeous buildings with lots of art and decor in the past, which people still love today.
But forget that these were only the buildings of the rich, government, or companies with money.
There’s been soulless stuff too.
Many of those didn’t survive the test of time or wars.
Then in the 1960s and seventies, they built those ugly and soul-sucking concrete shit because it was in and cheap.
So there was slop before.
Then it got a bit better until we turned to huge glass facades and steel.
Now, we are in the time when everything has to be built cheaply but sold as non-cheap.
Which leads to standard rectangles and materials, etc.
Everything that can be standardized, and thus gets cheaper over time.
Wrapped in styrofoam.
There’s no room for little gargoyles, rounded bay windows, or plasterwork.
And if you want them, you have to bring a truckload of cash and might have to fight the building codes.
Even the luxury homes are now glass and concrete.
So, yeah, from my point of view, slop, but slop that’s been there for decades already.
Food, however, is a different example. This one got really worse over the decades.
Regardless of where you are in the world, the modern stuff they sell you in the grocery stores isn’t even food anymore.
It’s high-tech products made in labs.
Some even highly addictive with evil intentions.
Even the pure foods aren’t safe. Trying to gmo tamper them or use tons of pesticides. In some countries more than in others.
But it’s not modern 2020s slop.
My mother already complained in the late 1980s about watery meat.
Stuff looked fine and plenty at the butcher’s, but when cooked, it shrank in half.
Then the era of glued-together tiny meat pieces, which are sold as ham and sauseges and nuggets, began…
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Definitely slop.
But let’s turn that around into a positive ending to my email :-)
You can fight that by consciously deciding where to spend your attention, energy, and money. For a lot of things.
It can be exhausting at first, but it will become easier. Your mind adapts, and then options are automatically ruled out.
Like I know I can skip 95% of the grocery store. There’s nothing for me to buy.