Once, young couples met in their local towns as equals and experienced the same forms of attraction and love as their predecessors. Now, young men darent approach women in fear of being shamed.
Nowadays, social media and its deliberate, algorithmic boosting has so convinced young women that they're actual celebrities, or in some way, profoundly important, that the young man they'd have once met and loved is now a nobody with no "followers."
If that wasn't bad enough, the Internet then places the kind of expectations on young men that even wealthy adults struggle to maintain.
Our youth, like modern adults, are so far from comprehending the damaging fallacies of modernity that our girls are not only happy to become less and less traditional, but wantingly accept the many deliberate insentivisatons to do so.
Meanwhile, our lads, who are wired to protect and serve, live an existence of perpetual melancholy, loneliness, and insecurity that they'll wrongfully blame on themselves.
Once, young couples met in their local towns as equals and experienced the same forms of attraction and love as their predecessors. Now, young men darent approach women in fear of being shamed.
Nowadays, social media and its deliberate, algorithmic boosting has so convinced young women that they're actual celebrities, or in some way, profoundly important, that the young man they'd have once met and loved is now a nobody with no "followers."
If that wasn't bad enough, the Internet then places the kind of expectations on young men that even wealthy adults struggle to maintain.
Our youth, like modern adults, are so far from comprehending the damaging fallacies of modernity that our girls are not only happy to become less and less traditional, but wantingly accept the many deliberate insentivisatons to do so.
Meanwhile, our lads, who are wired to protect and serve, live an existence of perpetual melancholy, loneliness, and insecurity that they'll wrongfully blame on themselves.
In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. This provided opportunity to their linked entities to offload their shares at higher prices and make significant profits at the cost of unsuspecting retail investors. The original Telegram channel has expanded into a web of accounts for different locations, including specific pages made for individual Russian cities. There's also an English-language website, which states it is owned by the people who run the Telegram channels.
from vn
