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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Well, that was more bleak and depressing than the post.
Also, hard disagree. Not everything is lost.
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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This is unhelpful.
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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I don't want to heal, I want to guillotine some billionaires.
What do you think healing looks like, if not that?
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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
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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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?
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.
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!
Nat 20 here we go, I cast vicious mockery
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I was born in 1984, how do you experience more ironic dystopian bullshit
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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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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.
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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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.
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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70s and 80s too
this is happening to everyone.
Just imagine living in Ukraine or Iran…at any age right now.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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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I'm just happy that I'm old enough not no be immediately drafted.
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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.
Same here. I've been saying for 25 years that the right wing Christian clowns were going to ruin this country and eventually the world. At the time my folks, family and friends all thought I was just some conspiracy nut.
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Same here. I've been saying for 25 years that the right wing Christian clowns were going to ruin this country and eventually the world. At the time my folks, family and friends all thought I was just some conspiracy nut.
I've felt like Courage the Cowardly Dog until the last year or two.
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I am comfortable with the knowledge that I spent the best years of my life in the '90s. The music, the clothes, the general vibe, the prices... The few wars of the era look like kids playing Risk compared to what's brewing now.
The lifestyle and material conditions enabled by a century and a half of fossil fuels are coming to a close.
It will only get worse from here. There is no recovery.
