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0 pointsslg5d ago0 comments

>is a very "traditional" way of fucking with people and expressing your broad contempt for their society.

Motivated in large part as a response to society saying fuck them. I'm not defending assholes being assholes, but I think what we have been seeing in the US over the last 5 or 10 years is classic collapse of the social contract stuff. The less a society cares about its people the less its people will care about the rest of society.

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mikkupikku5d ago

I get what you're saying, but blasting music on buses has been a thing since boom-boxes were invented, it's nothing new. I am also not inclined to blame systems instead of individuals because most people with the same background of injustice will choose to respond to that injustice by being better than it. It's only a very small number of people being disruptive like this, while the number of people with fair and understandable grievances against society is massive.

3eb7988a16635d ago

It was referenced in the 1986 Star Trek movie -Spock incapacitates a guy after he refuses to turn down his stereo.

shagie5d ago

He returned in Picard (notice his reaction with his neck). https://youtu.be/r6wDR6heQcU

What I did not know is that he was one of the producers for Voyage Home. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857130/

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slgOP5d ago

>I get what you're saying, but blasting music on buses has been a thing since boom-boxes were invented, it's nothing new.

Yes, because people have always felt like outsiders in relation to society. My point was that this sort of public misbehaving is getting worse because social cohesion is getting even worse. Not everyone with grievances against society will respond this way, but as more people have grievances against society, more people will respond in a manner like this.

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