Culture has been destroyed by allowing unintelligent people in the spaces that used to belong to intelligent people, without strict filters, white and blacklists, and tall walls, It is impossible to create a space free of stupidity, in the real or virtual world.
Used to be that all you had to do is tell the truth and people would filter themselves out.
Stick a paper saying BOOK CLUB on the door of a classroom and nobody that didnt belong there would enter, but now It's different.
@asa your misconception of the past/present is due in part of the oversimplification and generalization of specific circumstances as a means to constitute judgement of an elaborate, evolving series of quasi-aparati that affect each other in key points like a spider web.
Tldr; it was always this way, it just didn't seem that bad.
@lucifargundam using over-complicated language to express what is effectively "no u wrong" makes me cringe, and no it was not always this way, it's only been this way since relatively recently, it used to be that people would accept they weren't intellectuals because there wasn't that much social credit and other kinds of resources to gain from it.
@asa if you prefer to communicate using the shortest possible choice of words- that's up to you. However, a possible goal in having oneself implementing more verbose dialect is to better convey the underlying meaning, tones and intents behind what is being read. " No u wrong" literally does nothing to benefit anyone other than clearly put someone on a single side of whatever rhetorical fence.