Does anybody feel like the world is collapsing?

[kvorumese]

Countless wars, disregard for human rights, lack of empathy, corruption and propaganda, crises - all of these are basically the norm nowadays. It's one of the primary reasons why I want to leave this world, it's because I hate how this society functions and the state of it. Does anybody feel the same way?..

I feel like I won't be able to find my place in this world, because at this point what I'm dreaming of is essentially not achievable in any country that I know of - and if it was, it'd soon be filled with aspiring emigrants and due to a cultural intertwining, my dream would again cease to exist.

 

[Overwhelmed52]

Countless wars, disregard for human rights, lack of empathy, corruption and propaganda, crises - all of these are basically the norm nowadays. It's one of the primary reasons why I want to leave this world, it's because I hate how this society functions and the state of it. Does anybody feel the same way?..

I feel like I won't be able to find my place in this world, because at this point what I'm dreaming of is essentially not achievable in any country that I know of - and if it was, it'd soon be filled with aspiring emigrants and due to a cultural intertwining, my dream would again cease to exist.

Oh absolutely. It's been so hard to deal with and I'm so anxious about what's going on. The lack of empathy especially.

 

[Shadows From Hell]

As I sit and watch the world advance in technology, crime, and stupidity, it makes me glad 2025 will be my last year of living.

 

[Bruce]

Countless wars, disregard for human rights, lack of empathy, corruption and propaganda, crises - all of these are basically the norm nowadays. It's one of the primary reasons why I want to leave this world, it's because I hate how this society functions and the state of it. Does anybody feel the same way?..

I feel like I won't be able to find my place in this world, because at this point what I'm dreaming of is essentially not achievable in any country that I know of - and if it was, it'd soon be filled with aspiring emigrants and due to a cultural intertwining, my dream would again cease to exist.

But it was always like this! This is the natural state of humanity.

edit: People who adapted have done nothing more then to embrace this lifestyle.

 

[kvorumese]

But it was always like this! This is the natural state of humanity.

edit: People who adapted have done nothing more then to embrace this lifestyle.

For me that is another reason to not be a part of it :p

 

[Bruce]

For me that is another reason to not be a part of it :p

I mean .. what kind of person would you be if you wanted to? : )

 

[idelttoilfsadness21]

As I sit and watch the world advance in technology, crime, and stupidity, it makes me glad 2025 will be my last year of living.

Welcome to the club of sane people who don't want this hellish nonsense further :D

For me that is another reason to not be a part of it :p

It must be some sort of sign that it's devoting so much effort to not be so closed anymore for people to wake up now!

 

[human909]

Countless wars, disregard for human rights, lack of empathy, corruption and propaganda, crises - all of these are basically the norm nowadays. It's one of the primary reasons why I want to leave this world, it's because I hate how this society functions and the state of it. Does anybody feel the same way?..

I feel like I won't be able to find my place in this world, because at this point what I'm dreaming of is essentially not achievable in any country that I know of - and if it was, it'd soon be filled with aspiring emigrants and due to a cultural intertwining, my dream would again cease to exist.

definitely, that's also one of the reason why i am planning to leave.

 

[WatchmeBurn]

Climate change creates these feelings for me.

 

[maniac116]

I'm an old guy & I'm glad I'm old! Yes the world seems to be collapsing. Climate change, disrespect & hate. Plastic pollution. Disappearing rain forests & Wars. I do think we are done as a civilization. We have fucked mother earth & I think she's beginning to fuck us back

 

[Loaf of bread]

Many people feel this way. See this reddit community:
https://reddit.com/r/collapse/top?t=all

 

[taysontheory]

Of course the world is a little better off now. Read about Unit 731 in Japan.But evil exists

 

[AuroraB]

Climate change (exponential heat meaning plants can't grow) is very likely going to crash the global food supply by 2050. So yup, totally collapsing.

 

[Tommen Baratheon]

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com

There's even a Reddit sub about it (not that I'm a big fan of Reddit).

 

[LostLily]

lost faith in humanity which is part of the reason why I want to ctb

 

[bananaolympus]

Yeah

 

[divinemistress36]

Yes, people will say the world has always been bad but 2024 the world is worse than 2014

 

[Surai]

Yes, people will say the world has always been bad but 2024 the world is worse than 2014

Its getting so bad to a point where I feel people are starting to not even care

 

[divinemistress36]

Its getting so bad to a point where I feel people are starting to not even care

I'm starting to become that way . Lots of pain wipes you out

 

[Bruce]

Its getting so bad to a point where I feel people are starting to not even care

I'm not sure they have the capacity to understand what's going on. But yeah, even if they would understand I don't think they would change much, maybe not at all.

 

[G000pie]

Absolutely, and it's like when I try to talk about this with people, they're so deep in deluding themselves that everything is fine, so deep in denial they don't even understand. Even the last therapist I spoke to, when I talked about how the past few months it felt like the happiness I was experiencing was fake, like I was living the Truman Show, cause I haven't cried for a long time and that's a sure sign I'm suppressing emotions cause I know this based on previous observations about my past self... and she tried to convince me it was real happiness. I could tell she was suppressing her own emotions as well. Her smile was fake. Eyes glassy. I guess a lot of therapists have to do that these days to even get through their day with climate change and all... you have a job to help people cope with a dying world in which there is literally no solution. We're all going to die.

This just... constant clinging to hope that doesn't exist. Pretending that everything is fine. My mom's the worst example of it, literally never looking at news anymore, getting all her news from my dad and the church. Acting like god wouldn't let the world warm up so it must be fake news. Ugh.

There's so much greed, corruption and suffering that I think a lot of people have to live neck-deep in denial just to stay sane. I get it, in a way. But I've changed my view on things a lot. I don't run from the fact that we're all going to die. I definitely know I'm going to die sometime this year, hopefully soon. As a result, these past few months have been some of the happiest I've experienced in... well, forever. Even if it does feel fake, like I'm just doing my dishes and making a warm meal while the world is on fire outside.

It makes me appriciate this forum all the more. It's the first place I've found in a long time where I can just be open about this and not have twenty people with some cult-like mentality try to convince me that noooo life is worth living and I should just be happy :D :D It's not so bad!!!!!!!1 (it is)

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'm more selfish than that I'm afraid. The state of the world certainly bewilders and terrifies me- certainly. I suppose up until now though, I hoped I could live in a kind of protective bubble though. So long as I could keep my head in the sand, stay in my lane and survive financially doing a (creative) job, I thought that would be enough to allow me to cope. I could just shut the world out to a larger extent. Although, I've always hated being part of the system that exploits and kills off nature.

It's mostly that my coping mechanism is failing that motivates me to want out. And in the sense that I'm not sure I can fix that, it feels over.

But sure, I think we're all going to hell in a handbasket! I'm only thankful daily that I haven't had offspring to inherit and try and navigate their way through this mess. I hope to die before the shit really hits the fan- more than it already is that is. I don't know. I just dread to think how bad things will get in the (likely, near) future.

 

[donttalktome]

Sadly not especially. There was a brief time window where nukes were possible but the people up top enjoying life quickly quenched down the flame so they can keep doing their degenerate things. It's just common plebs suffering, we aren't even human to the top 1% and they don't suffer from any of the problems you describe. So no world is going to shit for the sub-humans only.

 

[Manfrotto99]

There is a lot of corrupt evil things going on, more so than ever, but those in power are getting bigger and stronger and better at hiding so the plebs like us are fooled and don't see what is really going on, or choose not to. Its easier to be ignorant.

Despite that, things are getting worse, simply because the population is increasing. I've read many studies that say the more people, the less empathetic and more narcissistic people become. It's a big reason I want to get off. Cities are the worst and Ive seen the changes where I live. Yet its all about growing populations, squeezing people into denser, smaller polluted 5 minuete cities that dont work because they rely heavily on traffic and speeding cars and getting people to spend, spend, spend incase they miss out, apparently. People dont give a crap anymore for others outside their immediate circle that benefits them.

If I had a choice I wouldn't die, I'd move to the country and live off the land, create a safe haven for myself surrounded by animals. Can't do that as a single middle aged woman though without resources and money.

 

[JesiBel]

Yes, for the system we stop being human and become easily replaceable instruments.

It is even difficult to find in society the feeling of unity, empathy, support and protection for those who need it. We are living in a continuous "every man for himself."

 

[Darkover]

the world as always been collapsing why because The systems in place to keep the world sane are utterly inadequate to the forces that have been unleashed… The level of contradiction is going to rise excruciatingly even beyond the excruciating present levels of contradiction.

 

[Giovannino224]

The world has been always collapsing, we were just dumb enough to not undetand that. The fact that ""we"" are starting to understand that is due to a rising of awareness of majority here in north-western hemispere, beacuse themes ad problems there were already massive in other parts of the world, are (and I dare to say) FINALLY coming here in the "welthiest" and "culturally superior" countries. There were always big problems here in the west, but we were too dumb to acknowledge them.

 

[kvorumese]

The world has been always collapsing, we were just dumb enough to not undetand that. The fact that ""we"" are starting to understand that is due to a rising of awareness of majority here in north-western hemispere, beacuse themes ad problems there were already massive in other parts of the world, are (and I dare to say) FINALLY coming here in the "welthiest" and "culturally superior" countries. There were always big problems here in the west, but we were too dumb to acknowledge them.

I'm not from the north-western hemisphere. I agree though, the world has always been collapsing, or at least ever since I had stopped being a kid and started to understand that we're all kinda fucked

 

[Gangrel]

I feel like it has always been this way, we just have access to see it all on the phone when before people simply didn't know or it would take weeks or months to know through the newspaper or something.

 

[Bruce]

I feel like it has always been this way, we just have access to see it all on the phone when before people simply didn't know or it would take weeks or months to know through the newspaper or something.

Just keep in mind that the media lies! Some events might be blown up out of proportions while the opposite might be done to others and some events might not be reported on at all.

We don't really need the media though, you can just look at people and see how they treat themselves, each other, the animals and the plan life around them and notice the consequences of their actions. There is also a certain .. localization, for example there's very high disregard towards anything and anyone in my area but I've been to other areas where it's not so bad to live.