while we probably have more access to participate now, I reckon less of us actually are being part of the things that we love
I know you're probably speaking a lot more generally but please allow me to introduce you to fanartists and fanwriters XD
there are very specific people I do actually wish would participate a lot less x_x
if we have to spend a lot of time and energy fighting just to survive daily life, how will we have enough left over to spend on what actually matters to us?
I remember trying to explain to someone that a "conspiracy theory" (may not be a conspiracy) that I have harboured for a while is that governments very deliberately go out of their way to make things as difficult as possible to pretty much guarantee that most of the population will make the absolute most stupidest decisions ever that favours whatever bullshit the governments want to force through at the time.
it could be that this is part of the reason that people are not participating and are becoming pure consumers and users alone
Pretty much, and also why some "kids these days" have zero work ethic.
there could be a huge amount of improvement made where we are active participants in our fields of interest, rather than scraping the bottom of the barrel by scrolling through feed after feed in the hope of finding something that delivers us into a better experience
Definitely true, though the expenses and obstacles constantly in the way can make it seem impossible sometimes. I figure if we keep trying it motivates other people to try too and we get somewhere eventually.
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I was speaking more generally. There are always a minority of active people, but I think that minority is getting more narrow also.
I have a similar conspiracy, that the governments are the ones spreading the conspiracies and that when they prove true, they are doing that too to say later, "we told you" - I once wrote an article about it :D
There definitely isn't much grind culture - unless it is coffee grind.
It is another artificial hurdle set up so only a few can ever succeed.
Maybe, though once again I think we're heavily biased by the company we keep ^_^;
We have a coffee grinder. It's kind of therapeutic XD though I haven't used it for a while (we have coffee beans and a French press but I haven't had any yet as I've been way too lazy to try to figure out what amount of milk or condensed milk I would need to add to make it drinkable for me, JJ uses it daily).
Fully agree and I've said this many times too.