the pandemic making people realize - oh shit they can just grind all this to a halt with the push of a button
the recent election frauds / riots / etc in the US, global warming / severe weather increasing, capitalism getting more and more ruthless, everything sucks more and costs more…
it feels so weird that it’s 2023 and we still care about dress codes or professionalism, at the same time. because it sort of feels like we’re in the beginning of a movie waiting for the bad thing to happen
Old person here: No, people have always been like this. Honestly, there’s always some sort of fear about the world ending: Nuclear war, terrorist attacks, active shootings, climate disasters, etc.
The world isn’t going to end any time soon, it’s just going to change. Though humans may or may not be around for the rest of the ride in the long run, that will be well after you and I are gone.
Also, an old person. I think the difference this time is twofold.
The people in charge are clearly crazy and in some cases unwell. The general enshitification of life. Ordinary every day things are much worse but more expensive.
I agree it won’t end but society as we knew it ten years ago (a hope that the future would be better, the big problems could be tackled) is finished.
I’ll tell you a secret, it has always felt like the end of the world is coming. It’s been a constant throughout history. People will always look around and say “well this whole thing is all going to hell”. This will never change and it has more to do with individual human psychology than the state of society.
My parents disagree. When they were my age everything was optimistic, except for some half imagined boogeyman of the cold war, which no one cared about day to day.
Today is worse for more people.
Now we have cops that think they are in a war with society. They steal, lie, murder and kidnap people just to buy more weapons to use against us. We are the new boogeymen.
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The world has been ending my entire life LOL, it’s a never ending shit show. Always has been, always will be. The only thing that’s changed is we carry a device in our pockets enabling us to obsess over it 24/7 now. I’m not saying it’s not worth paying attention to issues, just don’t let it get to you. We are aware of everything at all times now but our ability to affect things stays the same for most of us and that fosters hopelessness.
Don’t look up. Or down. Or anywhere really.
Proceeds to put out own eyes
It worked for Oedipus.
end of the world
You need a different way of thinking.
You are leaning towards something like fatalism or cynicism, but these attitudes are never helpful (only for your feeling, if you like to feel superior even if you are not).
election frauds / riots / etc in the US, global warming / severe weather increasing, capitalism
Problems getting worse indicate that mankind is getting worse. Technology cannot fix it. Man needs to get fixed.
election frauds / riots / etc in the US, global warming / severe weather increasing,
Anyone who thinks those things are getting worse doesn’t have a true grasp of history. I’m old, and I get amazed at how many young people tell me I’m wrong about what it was like when I was younger. I was there. I remember.
I don’t think it has anything to do with the end of the world.
(This is going to sound bad. Worse than i really mean it to) I think it comes from society’s increasingly inability to enforce social etequite. Faux pas are not “punished” resulting worse faux pas.
The tricky part is where do we draw the line and who defines it?
Nah, there is no lack of punishment anywhere
You mean the guy who almost crashed into my car because he wouldn’t yield the priority yesterday on my way to work?
Nah, he’s just an asshole
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