It annoys me that:
- Due to the prevalence of the Internet and suchlike, it has become the norm for people to use smileys and emoticons in normal writing, or for lol and other basic abbreviations to be used in conversation. We've lost the ability to express ourselves with the broad and beautiful vocabulary that we've developed over so many centuries.
- The general population has become either become so deeply depoliticised that "politics" is considered separate from life because poeple don't relaise that their elected representatives are there to do just that, represent them, or have been radicalised into extremist viewpoints which engender hate in the community and cause further disillusionment in those remaining because they see an extremist minority gaining popularity.
- Any sort of viewpoint considered to be in anyway "traditional" or non-secular or non-mainstream is viewed with automatic distrust at best and at worst outright derision, regardless of what the viewpoint may be. These opinions are trivialised with haste and disregarded out of hand without knowledge, wisdom or in depth examination.
- The media outside of the BBC have given up making any sort of meaningful television resorting instead to a collection of knitted-brow crime dramas or base and demeaning televisual trolling which is disrespectful to both the viewer and the people on the screen. That even the BBC has fallen victim to this culture and has begun trying to produce similar tripe but comes up with the impossible- a copy which cheapens even the original which itself seemed to be the lowest point television could reach.
I think that's probably about it.
For now at least...