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Does anyone else feel overwhelmed by how the world is going this year?

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  • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

    I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song 2.0 (Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.

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    • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

      I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song 2.0 (Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.

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      Honestly? I think if you had access to social media for any time in the last 100 years you would feel overwhelmed. The nature of the beast is there is ALWAYS something happening. There's ALWAYS something to be angry about.

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        Not the first time this meme was screenshot :D

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        • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

          I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song 2.0 (Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.

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          3.0 will be done by the Fallout boys

          My fav is the mailman ❤️

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          • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

            I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song 2.0 (Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.

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            No.

            The world is run by capitalism, and you have to remember that unhappy, anxious people spend more, while dead people don't spend anything.

            Turn off the news. Turn off the social media. Go for a walk. It's nice outside. None of this shit has manifested there.

            Well, unless you're in America and you look vaguely foreign. Maybe don't go for a walk in that case.

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            • semi_hemi_demigod@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

              Without selective pressure our brains won’t change, and definitely not on the timescale of thousands of years.

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              Bruh selective pressure to mate has these young men going full fascist mode

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              • blackmist@feddit.ukB [email protected]

                No.

                The world is run by capitalism, and you have to remember that unhappy, anxious people spend more, while dead people don't spend anything.

                Turn off the news. Turn off the social media. Go for a walk. It's nice outside. None of this shit has manifested there.

                Well, unless you're in America and you look vaguely foreign. Maybe don't go for a walk in that case.

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                We essentially have an oligarchy, or at least a growing list of authoritarian leaders. Kings in many ways except by name. Kings have been perfectly willing to destroy countries in furtherance of their egos, profits or other. Wellbeing of their citizens be damned.

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                • blackmist@feddit.ukB [email protected]

                  No.

                  The world is run by capitalism, and you have to remember that unhappy, anxious people spend more, while dead people don't spend anything.

                  Turn off the news. Turn off the social media. Go for a walk. It's nice outside. None of this shit has manifested there.

                  Well, unless you're in America and you look vaguely foreign. Maybe don't go for a walk in that case.

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                  I don't know if just choosing to ignore this all is the correct response. I mean, it's not overencumbering, but it feels like it also is a way for capital to reign free.

                  Maybe I'm just reading badly into it.

                  The correct way to fight against capitalism is to get together with your neighbours and start building communities that aren't reliant on the Big Market.

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                    Is that how the song should be taken?

                    I always understood it as him or the speaker singing the lyrics as if the audience was innocent in the events, and the leaders /villains/whoever are not “us” and they did it.

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                    More specifically, singing as the younger generation about trying to live in the world their parents and grandparents seem intent on burning to the ground. And that's not just my perception. You can hear him tell it in his own words (starting at 1:52).

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                    • snotflickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneS [email protected]

                      I'd like to believe that, but some people I have met who are not struggling for resources and had kind and loving families are still somehow just some selfish motherfuckers. I don't know where they got that trauma from that made them want to hurt others so badly.

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                      Capitalism is inherently violent and hurtful. You don’t have to look past the system in which they live.

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                        Bruh selective pressure to mate has these young men going full fascist mode

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                        Evolution does not work that way.

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                        • tetris11@lemmy.mlT [email protected]

                          May your quantum eraser never run dry

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                          Fingers crossed & thx 🙂

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                          • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                            I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song 2.0 (Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.

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                            Yeah but I feel this way every year.

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                            • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                              I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song 2.0 (Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.

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                              I mean this is the year I finally started looking into building a diy NAS, so much more preferable to study guides rather than open the news and witness the despair filled shitshow.

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                              • tomassci@sh.itjust.worksT [email protected]

                                I don't know if just choosing to ignore this all is the correct response. I mean, it's not overencumbering, but it feels like it also is a way for capital to reign free.

                                Maybe I'm just reading badly into it.

                                The correct way to fight against capitalism is to get together with your neighbours and start building communities that aren't reliant on the Big Market.

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                                The idea that we all need to disconnect from reality to stay sane is absolutely making reality worse.

                                This advice is from Boomer generations that hope to coast by before the world they neglected is no longer livable, while newer generations are forcing themselves to engage with reality because society is quickly becoming unlivable.

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                                • tehbamski@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                                  I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song 2.0 (Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.

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                                  I was brought up by my parents who were both in WWII. I was told on the daily all about fascism until I was a teen.
                                  I saw countless media about the war that has not been seen since the 90’s.

                                  I had first hand reports from my mom about when she was at the docks with the soldiers who had returned from Normandy. When she went to help them off the boat their skin would slide off.
                                  Who in the world wants fascism again. Sadly quite a few it seems. Most I do not think can comprehend what they are rooting for.

                                  My brain is so fucked up right now. I feel like I am in a fever dream or I got zapped to a different world in the multiverse.

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