how to cope with living in this rotten world?

[neverexistedd]

Everyone is just awful, everyone is scamming each other, everyone is killing each other, we are being ruled either by bunch of old mafia-men or by bunch of pedophiles kidnapping kids off the street, no one cares about anything or anyone anymore, our energy is being leeched off of by some creatures, no one is kind or welcoming, high trust society is slowly dissappearing everywhere, the world is transforming into some place where you will be continuously scammed and taken advantage of and there is nothing you can do to stop it, "everybody just yells and screams at each other, no ones civil anymore"

and my question is - how do you personally cope living in a world that is openly hostile towards you, a world where kindness,, trust, loyalty, honor and morals don't exist ? a world where hedonism, materialism, nihilism, solipsism and decadence are the true kings ? or should we just detach ourselves from it and stop caring about anything and just let it rot because it doesn't matter anyways, at least this is what I tell myself.

 

[Forever Sleep]

In a very irresponsible way. I stick my head in the sand and avoid people where I can. Just try to stay in my own lane and console myself with the idea I won't have to deal with this forever. Plus, live in a fantasy world most of the time- with films, series etc. on in the background.

I do agree with you though. Even avoiding the news isn't enough to be oblivious to all that goes on and a lot of it is sickening.

 

[limenlux]

I cope by spending time here, where a wide variety of people who may otherwise have nothing in common broadly manage to get along under the shared assumption that something is wrong, even if we don't understand, or can't agree upon, the exact nature of the something or the wrongness.

 

[rublev66]

I think the world has already been this kind of place for a long time, but your particular representation of it is just a mix of the noise that circulates through the media. Sorry if it was rude, I didn't mean it that way.

Personally, I removed social networks like Instagram and recommendation based streaming services like YouTubea long time ago, and I feel more at peace after that. It helps me look at the world from a different perspective, though I'm not sure it's the right way to act, since it could be read as isolation, given that most interaction happens online.

Good movies, books, games, music and other art used to be kinder to people and brought a lot of hope to humanity. But even setting that aside, I still hold a fairly pessimistic worldview. The world is rotting alive, we are part of that process, and only the void lies ahead. The longer I live, the less human I feel, and I honestly can't find a way to cope with it.

The end result of the rotting is the same. Only the path differs. It can be suicide, empty existence, or a fierce will to do something. I'm not sure the path matters, or whether one is better than another. What I do know for sure is that thinking in isolation doesn't help. I would go further, thinking itself might be the root of the problem. We think too much. We think more than we talk to people. We think more than we do anything.

Maybe the best solution is to spend as little time as possible shut in an apartment, and most of your free time out in nature. To move to smaller towns, farther from civilization and closer to the natural world. Sure, there's a chance you end up in a Dogville, but at the end of the day, that's just a movie. Talk to people. I mean really talk, not imitate social interaction. Hold onto the will to do something that matters to you, something you would choose above anything else, like building a house in Minecraft or defeating a dragon. Or suicide. I'm not sure it really matters.

 

[Pluto]

 

[Insufficent]

I don't watch new, deleted all socialmedia apps from phone and the knowledge that I can leave this place anytime i want.
I have lost my chances for what society "demands" from you, to get married, have kids etc...
Things I look forward now are tomorrow's gym, I might buy a training program and hope to lose some fat so I'm able to ski for three whole fucking days during winter vacation. Done this kind of thing a couple of time with no permanent results so I think I'm mostly repeating old mistakes in hope for a different results... but you never know (hopium).

 

[neverexistedd]

Rilke writes that modern man can no longer die a dramatic death. Instead, he dies in a hospital room, like a bee inside a honeycomb cell. Death in the modern age, whether due to illness or accident, is devoid of drama. We live in an age without heroic deaths.

This reminds me of the 18th-century samurai classic, Hagakure, which famously states, "The way of the samurai is found in death." That era resembled our own, where the dreams of the Warring States period had faded. Although samurai continued to train in martial arts, achieving a glorious death in battle became increasingly difficult. There was corruption and a fallen aristocracy, with delinquents akin to today's "Ivy set" appearing among the samurai.

In the midst of this turmoil, the author of Hagakure wrote: "When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death." He preached this idea repeatedly, yet he himself died in bed at a ripe old age. Even a samurai like him could not find the opportunity to die with honor and instead had to go on living while dreaming of such a death.

We entered our 20s filled with these thoughts. In contrast, today's youth may seek thrills; they are not exactly unafraid of death, but their existence is not tense, with death as the precondition of life.

We soon tire of living solely for ourselves. It necessarily follows that we need to die for something. That something used to be called a "noble cause." To die for a noble cause was once regarded as the most glorious, heroic, or honorable way to die.

However, there are no noble causes today. Democratic governments clearly have no need for noble causes. If one cannot find a value that transcends oneself, life itself, in a spiritual sense, becomes meaningless.

That is why I pray for an honorable death—a death for the sake of something. Yet, like the author of Hagakure, I feel I was born in the wrong era. I will probably die in bed after a life spent dreaming of a very different end.

 

[itsgone2]

Growing up in the 80s and 90s things were seemingly great. Then on 9/11 it was sad, not only what happened, but knowing the whole world would change. But it wasn't just then. The demons ruining this world were already in motion. Greed drives so much but there seems to be something else. As op says there's no trust, we just scream at each other. I hate it.
I've been a terrible person but the world has changed. Ruined

 

[limenlux]

Growing up in the 80s and 90s things were seemingly great. Then on 9/11 it was sad, not only what happened, but knowing the whole world would change. But it wasn't just then. The demons ruining this world were already in motion. Greed drives so much but there seems to be something else. As op says there's no trust, we just scream at each other. I hate it.
I've been a terrible person but the world has changed. Ruined

I have the distinct memory of reading a French philosopher who suggested that the world was destroyed in nuclear hellfire shortly after 9/11, and that the reality in which we've found ourselves since is Hell slowly revealing itself. The only source I can find remotely in connection to this is Jacques Derrida, but I'm certain that's not correct. In any case, I no longer believe that whoever said that is/was necessarily insane.