70s and 80s too
this is happening to everyone.
Just imagine living in Ukraine or Iran…at any age right now.
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
Cries in Elder Millennial
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.
Idk, my life is pretty fuckin great right now.
and the adhd goblins are also there in the background
I see what you did there - and that was beautiful.
Roll for initiative!
Nat 20 here we go, I cast vicious mockery
You’re a short mother fucker and nobody likes you! Vicious flute playing
SHORT
Do they both come inside or do they also have ED from depression?
Include this 80s duder. Oof.
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.
Idk, I wanted to kill myself as a kid and don’t now. So personally, the world seems pretty okay to me.
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.
“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
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
This isnt entirely accurate because there’s no wave for nuclear annihilation
Everything is a distraction from the feedback loops
one causes the other
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.
Anti-intellectualism is causing both
Today I was close to become the Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker
I was born in 1984, how do you experience more ironic dystopian bullshit
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.
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!
Some of the world is improving. Some has been regressing. The last 30 years weren’t a very stable time, and even the accounts of what is happening is not reliable. Not acknowledging that has been incredibly harmful for everybody.
Anyway, yes, improve your life and the society around you. It’s what you can do.
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
80s babies too
Unfortunately, no. At this point, the majority of humans in every country have allowed the worst of us to amass and consolidate power to the point where things will only get worse until complete destruction. Without a concerted and basically worldwide effort to take those power structures back, everything progresses downward. For my part, I can only hope we go out fast and soon so some of the planet’s ecological systems and species can be saved.
This is unhelpful.
Sorry, I didn’t know not agreeing was required for this post.
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.
