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If it's not harmful who cares? (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (15 children)

The kids care. Look up “zombie concert crowds” - the kids don’t want to be “cringe” so they won’t DANCE AT CONCERTS. It’s wild to see

Watching a video or two of the phenomenon made me feel funny in my stomach

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    And like every generation before you, instead of recognizing the natural differences from one generation to the next, you act like it's some strange spectacle. Hey maybe dancing at concerts isn't their culture. It's that simple. It's not wild, they're not zombies, and who cares if they think dancing is cringe. Let them not dance. That's their new normal, grandpa.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I weep for those who feel their natural humanity eroded because oligarchs can’t stop smushing cameras into everything

    There is a choice to not live this way, and to live a more true and grounded experience. That doesn’t involve surveillance state created by your classmates

    This is not normal

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    nAtUrAl HuMaNiTy lol

    Literally everything humans do is natural, we are part of nature. There is nothing in existence that isn't. You're appealing to a null standard.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The issue I see with that is that it defines "natural" in a way that is both useless, because it literally applies to anything in existence, and doesn't fit the way people generally use it, that being something more like "how things are when they have not been significantly altered by people". Under a more typical usage, human activity isn't natural by definition, not because humans are special in some way but just because the term natural has been arbitrarily created to describe everything except that activity.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    You just described exactly why it's a useless word to throw out there when trying to make any kind of actually rational argument about human behavior. Every time someone stands up and says "natural" at this point we all already know that person does not understand nature and is likely appealing to something supernatural. So as soon as someone pulls out that tired old yarn they get ridicule from me. If they want to be taken seriously, they need to be honest with themselves and with everyone else about what they're really about and what they really believe, not hide behind weasel-y language and pretenses of naturalism.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Dancing has been part of every human culture throughout all of history, though? It's not like choosing skinny or baggy jeans. And it seems to be fear-based, not want-based.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    I think you'd have a very hard time verifying that.

    And even if it were true, so what? That doesn't mean everyone who's born from then on has to dance too.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Findigs of music instruments and depictions of rituals and movements from every era and inhabitated continent seems to verify it. Babies dancing before they are even able to walk without assistance seems to verify it.

    No one is trying to force you personally or any one individual to dance. But we are allowed to wonder and/or worry at what has made one generation fear doing something that seems so innately human throughout evolution for millions of years.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Imagine being so learned about the diversity of the world and then using it to illustrate why people who differ from what you think is normal are some kind of sick.

    I can't believe you think anyone should take your argument seriously here. Adios.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    My experience has been that genZ absolutely loves to mosh and crowd surf, even when the music or situation would not typically support these actions. Like, I've seen kids jumping off the stage over and over again in a small venue with like 75 people who are getting increasingly annoyed by it. I've seen them do the "red sea" mosh thing to chill indie songs.

    Honestly I appreciate the enthusiasm, but the crowd surfing thing in particular gets super tedious in the aforementioned scenarios.

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