Sorry to reply to an older comment, but you are correct. Feeling alienated from (capitalist) society or the fake mediatised and commericalised reality we're often fed is indeed different to derealization.
I've experienced the latter, and it's more like an out of body experience. Like you're floating a few centimeters above your body, or like you're watching yourself in a movie. Like you're experiencing something that feels like very vivid deja vu or like you're in a dream. Which can of course lead you to make very bad decisions.
It’s a product of this warped system of capitalism. Unite over it. Don’t pin it to your lapel.
I sometimes wonder if it isn't sometimes a deliberate attempt to individualise societal problems. Pretend the syptoms are the problem, rather than adress the cause: a sick and profoundly unfair society that is in seemingly terminal decline. You're sad about climate change? It's your fault for not taking anti-depressants. You're angry about industrial pollution? You didn't put the yogurt pot in the wrong bin, it's your fault.
I'm honestly surprised that Stephen King's obsession with including child abuse and rape in his books hasn't caused more waves in the age of twitter. Certainly a bit weird how Stephen King is often recommended to young adults.
Ugh. Short term thinking.
There's a reason the BBC often has a lot of good stuff. They give some talented nobodies some money, tell them to make a show, with no expectation it'll be a big hit. Sometimes it turns out to be a cult classic like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, often the talented nobodies learn the ropes and their next show ends up being great.
Nurturing talent isn't profitable, but you do it anyway because at least some of that talent will make you money a few years down the line.
Bit of a tangent, but go on the BBC sounds website. You'll find loads of (science fiction) dramas from authors and actors you've never heard of. I suspect the amount of people who've actually ever listened to some of them is miniscule, bu itt's a cheap way for the BBC to give new talent an opportunity to write and act in something, to develop their skills.
They're willing to outsource it to countries with more expertise.
I remember giving the joystick port on my C64 a wet willy to activate cheat mode on a game. No, I'm not making that up.
If I do high effort stuff that takes an hour or more, I’m just discouraged by the lack of even comments. ... Do you all even want that (seriously)?
Why do you think Mattel, a company that's been accused of profiting of child labour and whose dolls have been shown to be damaging to young girls body image, made a Barbie movie?
Nah.
The reality is that this Mattel using feminism to shift product. It's fundamentally no different than when brands pretend to be gay friendly through marketing, to distract from their past and current record. Or when an oil company pretends to be green.
In the case of Mattel, their dolls have causes young girls body image problems and have been accused of using child labour
A relevant bit from a guardian article:
They haven't even been convicted yet, they're supposed to enjoy the presumption of innocence, and yet they're being shamed and punished.
The dead naming really isn't cool either, although that's probably bottom of the list of worries trans people have when interacting with the police given the horror stories I've heard.
Those Ukrainian Jewish Nazi ISIS supporters! They're the worst!