Am I projecting? What do you think, fellow lemmings?
Over 20 years ago I started to see the many problems with the world. Over the course of those ~20 years I saw more and more problems begin, none of them are ever resolved. There was a point where I believed I wouldn’t live long enough to see the full ramifications, but now it seems like those problems are compounding faster and faster.
every day that tub of elemental lead looks more and more delicious
I dunno man, genocides and overtly fascist takeovers just have a shitty affect on the vibe.
Climate change is getting worse and the world in general is sliding into fascism. The odds of things getting better in our lifetimes is very low. I’m only happy when I’m focusing on what’s around me and not the big picture, because the big picture is bleak.
I agree that things are bleak. I also try to focus on practical, local things on which I can have a positive impact.
I’d like to think that some things will get better, and others will be less bleak.
Climate change is occurring quicker than we had hoped, but we are making progress towards mitigating the worst effects, even of that progress is slower than we had hoped.
Covid causes brain damage and increased aggression.
covid causes vascular damage
Chinese people seem pretty happy on Rednote.
They mostly empathize with us Americans for our life of economic struggle for our wealth class in exchange for nothing but Subsistence.
They’re confused as to how it’s allowed to happen. They thought a lot of true horror stories about our health insurance murder industry and living paycheck go paycheck statistically unlikely to be able to cover a 400 expense was their government’s propaganda, and are horrified it’s not.
It’s amazing how many protections non-wealthy people have there.
I now completely understand why our government doesn’t want us having casual conversations with actual societies of people, as opposed to capitalist slaughterhouses like we are here in the US. Mooooo…
Also their cars are so high tech ours are in the stone age by comparison. No wonder they can’t sell them here, they’d eat our lunch. App controlled call the car to pull up to you, captains chairs that power rotate into new configurations, on and on.
Not trying to be an ass but American cars havent been great since forever.
There was a soviet joke:
A refugee from the sovjet union was not surprised to learn that most of what his government had told him about his country way lies - it wasn’t that great.
However, he was shocked to learn that they were telling the truth about other countries.
The weird incongruous part is that the people on Rednote (up until recently) thought the average American has over a million dollars (due to a weird mistranslation of something our embassy said about the average income from all Americans being over a million dollars), have a house (due to television shows), have free healthcare, and generally live a carefree life. Many people are questioning why there’s been such a push to work over here by their friends and family who visit.
All honesty, I tend to be optimistic to a fault and try really hard to be cheerful.
Everything starts to crack once socioeconomics comes up. The news lately is all about how everything is about to get worse. “This is collapsing, that’s more expensive, getting a slice of diminishing wages is going to be even harder now! They’re cracking down here and forcing ads there.” Etc etc.
When I’m knee-deep in fixing up my servers or making art or being with my people, everything is just peachy!
But yeah, “How next money tho?” Usually starts the mental downward spiral.
I love living, can do a ton of things, love learning, but I don’t get along with churning out a repetitive task for increasingly worthless currency.
The world outside of what I’m choosing to do feels entirely impossibly out of our control. So I try to balance being informed with staying sane.
Like damn I don’t need much, can’t folk just be left alone? Lol
Wonder if a lot of people feel like I do?
I feel this. Though I don’t tend to be optimistic in general about the state of my little place in the world , it definitely gets worse when I think of the big picture stuff that I have even less control over. I really wish I knew how to help, but I guess all I can do is relate and hope that you’re doing okay. At the risk of sounding insincere and acting weirdly intimate to a stranger online, we might never see each other in our lives, but we are fighting and suffering a reality that was forced upon us together. Hopefully things get better, but even if it doesn’t, we aren’t alone in this.
oh yeah I certainly do. I mean even the churning would not be so bad if there was any indication it would end.
Seems like mostly just people in the west because western world order is now visibly collapsing.
America is not the Western world.
It does, however, control a lot of the Western World’s media, and there’s a clear agenda to make people frightened.
The US is at the centre of western world order. The rest of the west is tied to the states ideologically, politically, economically, and militarily. The global hegemony that the US created in the 90s is now starting to unravel and that’s having a negative economic impact on all western countries. Europe in particular has been hit very hard. And hence we’re seeing political discontent running all across the west.
Ah yes, middle earth
It is and if you can’t see it it’s because you are being dragged down too.
I’m going to remark something nobody seem to be focusing on. Humans didn’t evolve 1 million years to eat processed food and be around artificial everything.
I’m just waiting to die at this point. Fuck this life. Fuck this world. I’d kill myself if I wasn’t such a pussy. I keep living with the vague hope that things might get better, but deep down I already know it won’t.
I’d kill myself if I wasn’t such a pussy
If you kill yourself, the number of socialists will decrease. Don’t you want capitalism fall?
Anger with no target turns inward. You sure your anger is directed at the right target?
Same page club, except the vague hope.
Honestly the vague hope was keeping me at my lowest until I learned to understand and completely accept that our world is ending by our own hands, detach from being on the human team, and just gawk at the freak show of the exploitative macro-cancer monkeys that we are with gallows fascination.
This is the same thing comedian George Carlin bragged about doing to find peace in his later years, BTW.
When you remove trying to root for us to be not horrible, we are a spectacular and peculiar thing to behold, a remarkable evolutionary oddity, like Pandas. Like how are we the apex predator?! It’s nuts and hilarious.
Absurdism?
🙏Please don’t say that.
Thank you for giving a shit about me. ❤️
Hugs for you, buddy. <3 the world’s better with you in it.
I see that you’ve posted a few new things in the last hour or so; hope this means you’re feeling a little better about things.
I’m fine, just needed to vent my deep down feelings. Thank you.
Nothing like shrews and coffee to get your mind off things 😉👍
If you ever feel very down, make sure to channel your hatred of the world back out at the world, rather than inwards at yourself. Maybe you’ll help make it a bit better <3
Start skateboarding 🛹, it helps.
I’d say you have issues that have little to do with the news. Talk to a counselor.
Have to focus on what’s around you that you have control over.
Shitposting?
Yes! Among other things.
I’m in a pretty bad fucking mood but I kind of figured that was more my problem.
Everyone seems to be doomscrolling
I’m in a good mood! :)
👍I envy you and applaud you at the same time (being serious here, not snarking).
Thank you. I found that if I don’t doomscroll and just look up subjects I like… Then easier to be on good mood.
If I may, Arts & Letters Daily has a lot of interesting links that generally aren’t too overly tied to current events, and can provide a nice break from the world as usual. Aeon is also good.
I’ll check that out. Thank you!!
Been outside or watched the news lately. What’s there to be in a good mood about?
Idk, some leftist people (including minorities) are energized and motivated, so it’s important not to get stuck in some weird self-defeating trap. Political up and downs happen every generation. Don’t fall for the doomer BS, it’s important to keep following through with your personal goals and persevere. Find a community and volunteer, take care of each other.
Ultimately people should seek to close gaps with others, and try to find common ground, while acknowledging that there are some values which cannot be compromised, like sacrificing someone’s humanity and (personal/psychological) safety.
