Venting We are just the byproduct of a nihilistic society

[Henry Avery's]

Regardless of everyone's personal struggles, whether it's extreme loneliness, depression, the feeling of being a loser, medical conditions, or something else, I think it's important to put those struggles in the context of the world that was created for us. Of course, everyone has a different story for why they end up rotting in a room for five years without talking to anyone. But regardless of the individual story, there's a bigger pattern here.

The problem, and I don't think other generations had it better or worse, is that we don't have anything worth the struggle. Marketing campaigns and movies sold us the idea that everyone will find love. The education system told us that if we made enough effort and got a degree, we'd have a job. It was all a lie. I think millennials were the last generation to believe in that dream, until they hit their mid-30s and realized they'd been scammed.

My generation, people born around 2000, realized this back in high school. That's where we are right now. We don't believe in God. we don't believe in the idea of "being happy" whatever that means, Some people get groomed into political ideologies as a way to cope, which is why you see so much political extremism these days, people trying to find meaning, another false God to believe in that makes their suffering worth it, while at the same time technology replaces every possible form of human connection.

I don't think there's any solution either. I think things are just going to get worse and worse. Every generation has had its own problems. This is ours

 

[Set Real Goul]

 

[Lamentice]

I think you nailed it and articulated this beautifully.

 

[Canto XIII]

We're the children of post-modernism.

 

[miles-away]

Seeing society become more and more apathetic to everything has been so depressing. Nothing matters; not the environment, not religion, not human rights. Nobody believes in anything.

 

[rublev66]

another false God to believe in that makes their suffering worth it

I believe that the only reason our society is so nihilistic and isolated is that we make it our faith, and at some point that faith becomes indistinguishable from reality. This idea is no different from just another false God to believe in.

And perhaps some of us dulled our ability to see them. But for me, there are people who truly believe in something, who do it for the people it matters to, and that's what gives me a little faith in myself. You might say that is naive, and I won't argue with you.