the state of the world

[lucyna]

this is just mainly me venting about my feelings.

i'd say my recovery is doing well but i still feel this existential dread about the world. everything feels empty, i feel like the system is broken beyond repair (thanks mark fisher, now i understand you better than ever before). the government is cutting all of the social safety nets, including ones related to health care and medicine. the unemployment rate is the second highest in europe. the cost of living is crushing almost everyone, bringing crime and homelessness to the streets. the corrupt politicans are scapegoating different minorities so the masses can be distracted to project their anger at anything else than a group with actual legislative power making the decisions.
we have given up the fight against climate change and accepted our forthcoming collective extinction, the subject is getting boring. is there even a future worth waiting for? is there a future at all?

 

[U. A.]

this is mainly just me echoing the despair of the harsh reality you describe.
it's quite the task to commit to living for those of us acutely aware of the fact that most of the "good" (i.e. rich) countries are going to shit and fast, and fucking things up more and faster than ever for the poor ones.
i try to take it day by day, recalling that the uncertainty of a future has been a facet of [human] life since the beginning, wondering whether you'd get consumed by a wild animal or infection, or just die from the elements.

it does feel different when humans are the ones actively ruining everything at unprecedented scale though.

 

[itsgone2]

The corrupt politicians though, they can only be corrupt if someone is paying them off. They take the money so they're evil but so are the ones providing the money. We don't truly know who they are. They're forcing so many changes and yes it's impacting jobs and affordability of just about anything. It's truly awful.
Climate change disappeared as a topic one enormous amounts of power were needed for AI. We're paying increased energy costs and using more resources and driving up emissions for a service that is taking our jobs. And we keep doubling down.
We're probably all depressed here and some would say we can only see the future as a negative, but I think we're right and the near future is quite bleak.

 

[iji]

Doomer vibes. The best we can do is try to be independent from the gov. Climate change has become inevitable, but the worst is yet to come to future generations, meaning our species will eventually become extinct yes, but some more adaptable subspecies that will evolve from us will survive.