Societal Decline Critique

Comments in this cluster repeatedly criticize or lament the current state of society, describing it as regressing, crumbling, or fundamentally flawed due to prevalent attitudes, values, and trends.

📉 Falling 0.5x Politics & Society
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Sample Comments

lancelot-ru Dec 2, 2022 View on HN

Clearly something is going on with your society.

Beaver117 Feb 12, 2023 View on HN

What does that say about society?

dh2022 Apr 16, 2024 View on HN

How is this destroying society?

codingwagie Jul 10, 2025 View on HN

there are deep reasons for why society is not like this anymore

lamontcg Jun 14, 2021 View on HN

Bit of a microcosm of the way our society seem to be going.

thinking4real Dec 7, 2022 View on HN

This attitude is way too prevalent for how badly society is crumbling

kthartic Mar 19, 2024 View on HN

Haha didn't know about this! Clearly we've regressed as a society

zacharycohn May 26, 2014 View on HN

Society's faulty preconceptions, yes.

edrxty Feb 6, 2022 View on HN

I...think you just described society

chris_wot Oct 22, 2022 View on HN

That seems like a societal problem.