You on Reddit voted every day to hate upon the least-educated least book reading part of the population. When Russian information warfare invaded Reddit in March 2013, the Internet Research Agency working with Cambridge Analytica - stuck to non-identity social media and watches Americans get mind-fucked by Putin. Instead of teaching remedial morality lessons, you teach hate harder as conditioned by the Kremlin. Reddit community has the free time to teach and not mock, but since March 2013 it's just been a reason to mock and punch-down on the people who never studied Neil Postman or Peter Pomerantsev.
It is never enough hate in USA, people can't turn social media into goodness, just more mocking every day. When will people wake up that we are all interconnected on Pale Blue Dot and the behavior of hundreds of millions on social media impacts our lives?
Going on "out there", as in where?
I already do cry a river. It's a nightmare world we live in with social machine users dehumanizing people in mass. So detached from goodness favoring people like Donald Trump as leaders since March 2013.
Weird and strange doesn't normally concern me, diverse communities like sexual practices and different languages many people are scared of - scared of immigrants and people who travel on airplanes from other places in the world are "strange and weird". What is bad is badness itself. Hate, liars, deception, falsehoods, war, violence, dehumanization. Machine lust for power like Elon Musk promotes to the population, to love social machines and hate human persons.
Bruce Springsteen is criticizing Donald Trump for wanting to take over Canada and make it a 51st state by bullying and manipulation. I don't see that as "turning inwards", I see that as conquest and power concentration in the very wealthy and powerful.
Bruce said a lot of words, I notice you didn't quote any of what he said to indicate in context what you mean.
There is a crisis that many people on the World Wide Web and who consume media from HDTV believe that "freedom to hate" is what is important, "freedom to be evil" is what they desire. These terrible moral values of being attracted to badness itself have turn into cult and religion behaviors of praising the wealthy no matter what they do. Donald Trump and others in the White House being role models and leaders.
People in year 2025 who instead of celebrating neighbors in Canada, celebrate force of power to manipulate Canadians into badness. This isn't freedom as much as compulsive reactionary Twitter machine thinking.