Anyone else cutting off all ties to modern day culture and society?

I'm in my 30s, I'm into music, movies, stand-up comedy, interviews, biographies, 99% of which were made before I was born. I can't stand the phone obsession (which I saw coming -- I got into the business for a while over 20 years ago, but not THIS bad).. I don't like the slang/language and the conformity.

So in my early 20s, I thought I'd backpack around the world, looking for...... something else. People to talk with most importantly, musicians to play with, things to observe, understanding. There's been a big difference in people since 2004 even in European, Asian, and Oceanic countries like Australia. They seem to recycle the WORST shit in our culture, but the average person usually doesn't search hard enough, and will watch whatever their phone directs them to do, directly or indirectly (advertisements for example).

In the last handful of years, I've come to sites like these trying to find people to talk to online.

I've noticed people changing. The lack of honesty, mostly. When it becomes more and more common, it becomes more and more acceptable. Just not for me, so for the most part I've chosen to not be involved with other people. But not by choice. There are things I've always wanted to do, but other people are necessary and they're not dependable.

I'd like to add a word I keep seeing on here - dehumanizing. Just think of the "music" -- auto-tune (you don't even have to sing in tune anymore!), "drum machines", apps and computers doing all the work, a business of "writers", tons of recycling, manipulation... CGI in movies, but also how movies only seem to get mentioned for fake controversy. I accidentally see stories when I check my e-mail, and all the mentions of movies have NOTHING to do with the movie, but how one group wasn't represented, or some "naughty" dialogue, a tweet one of the "stars" put online, a top-less pic from a boyfriend from 20 years ago, you name it, but it's never about the merits of the movie, because modern society stinks.

HOWEVER, as much as I criticize technology, it allows me to completely avoid this generation and allows me to watch, read, listen to stuff from the 1930-70s, which is also an attempt to see how exactly we got to this point. I love going on newspapers.com and YouTube and comparing everything. Talk shows, or even one person, who suddenly has to change with "the times" for financial reasons. Unfortunately, many younger and ignorant people follow the shit. They even call every person on "social" media a "follower".

I won't get into it, but politics is more retarded than ever. I can't believe the hypocrisy, or the odd things people prioritize. My biggest problem is that I don't believe what many people say they believe, and think it's their way of being "safe".

I have the impulse, but I have the sense to know that I can't function in modern society without keeping an eye on what's happening in the now.

True withdrawl from modern society would require a cabin in the woods somewhere with an underground shelter/storehouse, and withdrawl from most of the benefits of modern civilization as well as the drawbacks.

Degenerates took over Western Society...and now it sucks. It really isn't more complicated than that.

Right wing values create strong men, strong families, and strong nations.

Left Wing Values are just shit, and we are seeing them full-on display in the current zeitgeist.

> it feels to me as if modern day culture and society is becoming more dehumanizing and nihilistic

I agree. You might want to go back farther than 2010. Still, there is a lot of good stuff today, it's just that there is more trash than ever before that more intense and awful.

As an US national you are not allowed to comment on Japanese culture!

I don't do any social media. No Facebook, Twitter, or anything else that people seem to need to bury their faces in constantly. Never have. I have no regrets.

I definitely gave up on modern culture. My friends will recommend me shows all the time, but nope, i'm gonna keep watching Bonanza and Cannon. I basically never turn the dial off MeTV. Which of course makes one a little anti-social. I gave up on music years ago. I get my new fix of entertainment from comics. Drive an old car too. No electronics that are just gonna fail one day and cost thousands of dollars to repair. Sure wish that AC worked though. That's brutal. Basically turned my home into a time bubble where the 90s never died. I definitely dress out of style. On the whole, I think people have gotten very casually cruel. And all the new content they make on these streaming shows are twisted and cruel. Mean spirited. Comedies especially. Anti-family, anti-religious, anti-high morals, anti-traditional family model. They're just gonna keep pumping out more and more of that crap till people forget how to love. Future is gonna be souless and hollow and I feel really bad for these new kids coming up who are gonna have to live in it. Heroes matter. Symbols matter. I don't know. We're reverting back to barbarism. Truth is the modern world was kind of an experiment and it's being abandoned.

I guess you're younger than me, but to me 2001 is not retro. The 1960s is. I agree that most culture today is worthless, but was 2001 culture that great?
To me the era of great culture--music, movies, TV, etc.--was the '60s. But the country was always divided...except once, when was landed on the Moon. Then the whole world was united for that brief moment of history.
As for everything else, the war, civil rights, etc. we've been split half and half since the Civil War.