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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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.
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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.
I genuinely believe there is 0 chance we will ever heal the earth. Collapse of Earths natural systems seem inevitable.
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Our species is not that selfish. The selfishness is what is induced to make people “healthy”.
I am asking about healthy people. What do they want?
The systems put into place benefit the selfish because the selfish are willing to do whatever it takes to appease their own self interest regardless of any sense of morality or shame.
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I'm just happy that I'm old enough not no be immediately drafted.
I don't have to worry about being drafted, I'm officially morally unqualified to serve in my nation's armed forces!
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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
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This isnt entirely accurate because there's no wave for nuclear annihilation
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I don't have to worry about being drafted, I'm officially morally unqualified to serve in my nation's armed forces!
Don't worry they make waivers for everything.
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Sometimes you can be a little self-centered. While climate change is overwhelming, a huge catastrophe for society and humanity’s future, how much will it directly affect you? Most of us will really only see more of the same: more severe and unstable weather, modified seasons, times where food and power are more expensive. You can handle that.
Sometimes it’s ok not to think too much about the statistics telling the bigger story or the news detailing the more extreme effects. As long as you know they exist
What can you do about the things that directly affect you? What can you do about the things in your control?
It is very possible in our lifetime we will see famine and fresh water shortage.
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I genuinely believe there is 0 chance we will ever heal the earth. Collapse of Earths natural systems seem inevitable.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]You don't heal the earth. It's like meditation, you don't force the mindset, the mindset comes to you and you can't control it, but you can learn to respect it for what it is.
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and the adhd goblins are also there in the background
All my dopamine comes from marketed bullshit and none of it is authentic or genuine.
