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it seems to me like society is becoming more aware of itself, and this is sort of connected to that, but i'm not sure how:
it seems like people are more ready to call things genius or the greatest nowadays. in years past, geniuses would pop up a couple every century, but now there's a new musical genius every week. it's like we are obsessed with " the now" more than ever. i heard that that last pope we had is going to be canonized faster than any other pope before him, or something like that. was he that much better than other popes? i feel like it's because he's a pope in "our" time that "we" want him canonized. i don't know. i just kinda feel this way. like "the greatest rapper of all time". isn't it a little early for that. now now now. this election. this president. this war. i mean it seems ridiculous for me to be saying that people didn't used to care about what was going on "now" for them, but it just seems like they didn't as much. maybe, it's just the way i'm starting to look at things.
it kind of ties in with what you're saying. kids don't want to wait to grow up. they want to curse now.
i remember, when i was in sixth grade, one of my friends in eighth grade pointed to a picture of a girl in the year book and said: "that girl sucked a dick" like it was a notable thing. she was known for having sucked a dick, but just two years late, when i was in eighth grade in the same school, all the girls were sucking dicks, girls were pregnant and noone thought it was out of the ordinary. later, i heard 6th graders were sucking dicks.0
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