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I'm just trying to come to terms with my trauma, can the world, I don't know, improve with me or something instead of getting worse?

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  • C [email protected]

    The world is improving: https://ourworldindata.org/sdgs it's only the media focusing on conflict, gore and problems as that sells better and keeps people scared. Go on healing and follow your path!

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    Thanks for the attempt, but all I see are “the 17 sustainable development goals” where the Trump administration wants to take us backwards

    Hopefully I’m just being us-centric and I understand our current issues may be partly obscured by long term trends and global statistics. However we also have an outsized effect on the world and those are some of the first places cut or corrupted, changed from achievements to points of instigation

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      The world's healing progresses much more slowly than the individual's. We have hundreds of years of colonialism and ecological devastation to heal from and that shit won't happen overnight. You are part of the world and your healing makes the world better. Focus on what you can do and do that. Trying to take responsibility for the whole mess will destroy you, it's out of your hands.

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      This was beautifully stated. Thank you for your wholesome response, VampirePenguin.

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        and the adhd goblins are also there in the background

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        I see what you did there - and that was beautiful.

        Roll for initiative!

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          I chose cheerful nihilism a long time ago.

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          • L [email protected]

            Well, that was more bleak and depressing than the post.

            Also, hard disagree. Not everything is lost.

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            I mean, let's hope you're right. But we're about to enter WWIII if it hasn't already started as well as the next mass extinction event while our leaders do everything possible to spur both on. It's not exactly compellingly hopeful times.

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            • K [email protected]

              This is unhelpful.

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              Sorry, I didn't know not agreeing was required for this post.

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                I, for one, feel a lot less crazy now that people are seeing what I have been seeing for a long time. I hear about it more even from old folks, my in laws now ask more questions as do my own parents. That gives me a lot of hope. Change is inevitable.

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                  80s babies too

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                  • S [email protected]

                    I don't want to heal, I want to guillotine some billionaires.

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                    What do you think healing looks like, if not that? 😌

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                    • candyman337@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

                      My biggest fear is climate change tbh, trump, facism, and capitalism are terrible, but the biggest threat to the future of humanity is climate change

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                      Anti-intellectualism is causing both

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                        It's difficult being a millennial and trying to confront the nostalgic feeling (that naturally comes with aging) that "things were better in my youth," because things objectively were better in my youth.

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                        • P [email protected]

                          If you share how you improve, others could join. That could grow until everybody is healed.

                          Question is, what do healthy people want? Do they want to live in peace or do they prefer to fight and to risk everything?

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                          Healthy people want to live in peace, but also recognize when is the time to fight for that peace.

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                            It's difficult being a millennial and trying to confront the nostalgic feeling (that naturally comes with aging) that "things were better in my youth," because things objectively were better in my youth.

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                            Also ignorance is bliss and as kids we didn't give a shit about politics. But in this instance things were 100% better no doubt.

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                              I see what you did there - and that was beautiful.

                              Roll for initiative!

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                              Nat 20 here we go, I cast vicious mockery

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                              • G [email protected]

                                I was born in 1984, how do you experience more ironic dystopian bullshit

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                                I had ten years more WW3 is about to happen at any time than you did. We saw Northern Ireland become a peaceful place after such a long time like a war zone, the Middle East calmed down after always being a warzone somewhere or other. We watched the Berlin Wall come down in ’89 with such optimism, the USSR broke up peacefully and Europe started to be a more interesting place, now these borders with Russia are bloody dangerous. Somehow there’s a new and improved ‘Cold War’ that isn’t actually a secret at all, a real war hiding behind words like conflict, the holy lands are all to hell again, my god we are useless at this peace thing - the rich twats just can’t make enough money unless we’re all suffering obviously.

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                                  70s and 80s too

                                  this is happening to everyone.

                                  Just imagine living in Ukraine or Iran…at any age right now.

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                                  • F [email protected]

                                    It's difficult being a millennial and trying to confront the nostalgic feeling (that naturally comes with aging) that "things were better in my youth," because things objectively were better in my youth.

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                                    I dunno man, there was an atomic cloud over Europe from a reactor meltdown which meant we couldn't go outside when I was a kid.

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                                      "I wish that none of this had happened"

                                      "so do all who live too see such times, but that is not for them to decide. all we have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to us."

                                      as hard as it to reconcile with the world disintegrating when you're coming together as a person (I'm in the same boat) I find the above quote gives me some courage to accept such a condition and to act steadfastly instead, as a testament that life is worth living and fighting for

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                                      Sam has my favorite quote. Always helps me out of a hole.

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                                        It's difficult being a millennial and trying to confront the nostalgic feeling (that naturally comes with aging) that "things were better in my youth," because things objectively were better in my youth.

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                                        I dunno, I hear stories from my coworkers about how bad East Germany and other former Soviet states were in the 80s/90s. It depends a lot on where you were fortunate enough to grow up.

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                                        • S [email protected]

                                          70s and 80s too

                                          this is happening to everyone.

                                          Just imagine living in Ukraine or Iran…at any age right now.

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                                          Oh man I'd prefer to not compare myself or my problems to active war zones. Lifes rough no matter the place but I have plenty of opportunity to make good on it. That may or may not be the case for folks in Ukraine or Iran... and then I think of Pakistan....fuck

                                          Edit: fat finger spelling

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