Do you ever statement framed as a question?
Yeah I’ve been feeling bizarre as the US falls into fascism and ill just be at work like any other day
Yeah. Especially living in a society actively sliding towards some of the worst features described in some of the fictional worlds I enjoyed in novels coupled with a police state. It was never perfect, ever, but the amplification of the awful parts is really depressing.
I mean, let’s be real.
It’s gonna get a whole lot worse.
I hope you’re wrong. I really, really hope.
Hey, at least you (still) have hope!
Hope is something that we all can have, we just have to nurture it and ground it into reality. If you can’t nurture it, you’re not broken or lesser.
Personally, the fediverse has given me a lot of hope.
When the weight of the world feels overwhelming, remember this: Everything humans have ever done, every building, road, machine, and moment, makes up only a tiny fraction of this planet’s mass. We are small creatures, clinging to the surface of a vast, ancient, quietly turning sphere. The Earth itself is not in crisis. It simply is. Steady, silent, and endlessly patient. If human noise becomes too much, just place your hand on the ground. Feel the stillness. Let it remind you that you are connected to something far older, far larger, and far more enduring than any headline or heartbreak. The Earth will hold you.
Everything humans have ever done, every building, road, machine, and moment, makes up only a tiny fraction of this planet’s mass.
Oh boy do i have news for you
… but i agree with you. Even if humanity ceases to exist for whatever reason, both the planet Earth and life/evolution will go on just fine. We’re a merely given a chance, but if we can make it, depends on us.
But what about the animals that are going to die?
Or any number of innocent beings caught up in the worlds problems. I get you, but this is purely an immediate way to ground yourself when you’re feeling overwhelmed. It’s like the quiet giant under your feet all the time that you can connect with whenever you need to :)
I don’t care about a rock, that’s meaningless. I care about the animals.
Okay, sure, the Faro plague has consumed all of Eurasia, but have you considered seeing a therapist?
Fuck Ted Faro
But Momma, that’s where the fun is
I hate the state of things, but what drives me crazy is pushing it in people’s faces and still watching them go back to school and work and talk about whatever typical bullshit they’re thinking about.
That is pretty much how the mechanics of human consciousness works. We also know we are going to die some day, and that it is most likely not going to be very pleasant leading up to it. But we still manage to block out that knowledge of finality in our daily life.
“We live in a dystopia”
Said the dude
With access to running water
Food
Medicines
Rights
Technology
Opportunities
Privileges
That 99% of the whole world population doesn’t have and won’t ever have access to, even in their wildest dream
This dude doesn’t need to worry about being sold into slavery
Or leaving his country just to avoid persecution be it political or otherwise
Or working 24/7 non stop
Or being caged just to be a source of entertainment for others
Having his limbs chopped for food.
Being used as a tool to relieve sexual stress
Being extorted into war and crime just to save his family lives
Being forced to murder and rape perks just to not be murdered himself
Or being used as a human shield against his will or else
Having his organs harvested to pay debts
Murder his own family and children to avoid them the pain of being abused and tortured to death
All things that happens daily in our current world
And yet he says he lives in a dystopia nightmare
while sitting on his couch
At his parents or his own house, owning property
Stoned out of his mind
On his latest generation phone that he probably got to pay for on easy installments or was gifted to him
Having had breakfast and a good night sleep
While having access to the sum of the whole world knowledge at his fingertips
And working a couchy desk/customer service job which requires zero skill whatsoever
Yes we hear you and feel so sorry about your pain. Let us commiserate together about how bad YOU have it.
I’d like to think people like this are not real, but in case they are, I just wish them to experience the most slowest and agonizing of lives
You do realize that most people don’t know the truth, right? That the world doesn’t need to be the way it currently is? That we have the empathy, technology, and ingenuity to solve these issues with awareness and action?
Lists all the terrible awful things going on in the world.
How dare you complain about the suffering of others, shut up and be happy you get to have the privilege which is built on said suffering.
What a fucking take.
That’s a “yet you live in a society” level meme right.
Yes we all are sure now that you don’t understand that is not the standard of living for everyone in the planet, hence hardly qualifying for a dystopia kennel
The fact that those things happen at all makes this a dystopia. No matter if you’re the person they happen to or not.
The fact you don’t understand that those who don’t have to deal with the horrors of the world are still angered, hurt, and tired of them, even if they don’t deal with them directly, is very telling.
The people you’re describing are bitching because their internet is slow, they’re observing the collapse of the American Empire as innocent people get whisked away to fucking death camps.
They’re tired of the evils of the world, and they’re even more tired of said evils encroach on even more peoples daily lives.
This shit isn’t rocket science.
Nice username
Ah thanks 😊
What’s for dessert?
Cheese souffle
All of the cake… are you gonna share your vanilla pudding with me?
And pay the overwhelmed fee, no thanks.
All day everyday
“We should boycott Amazon for firing all their workers in my province.”
“Why bother, boycotts do nothing.”
How is that the default response and not “FUCK THIS COMPANY”
…and instead of joining the boycott, proceeds to do nothing.
SO much learned helplessness in the “geeks” around me. They’ve given up on privacy, ownership, seemingly democracy, certainly peace for Palestine. Never been to a protest, or even considered boycotting. I’m surprised they even bother voting (centrist ofc).
I felt this feeling as we were finding out we invaded Iraq under false pretenses to make money for blackrock. We never did anything. I figured people would change but after voting in same clown after the shitshow he did last time……
The average American reads at an 8th grade level, with slightly more than half reading at a 6th grade level.
We have been cognitively neutered, by design.
Didn’t that actually happen (not the Blackrock part)? I thought it came out in a Congressional hearing that there was oil which motivated the whole thing. The U.S. went in to find WMDs but after many years could not find evidence of any.
It was just because W wanted to finish what his dad started and remove Saddam. There was no exit plan or grand strategy.
That doesn’t necessarily mean Saddam wasn’t bad, but why not let the citizens of Iraq decide that?
As a dictator he weaponized his ethnic minority to violently oppress the majority. The people in Iraq had no say.
I guess to call out Blackrock exclusivity is incorrect as they were just security in Iraq. My point was using private contractors and then allowing firms to profit. This government to private is now infecting everything.
2007, an internal Department of Defense census on the industry found almost 160,000 private contractors were employed in Iraq (roughly equal to the total U.S. troops at the time, even after the troop “surge”). Yet even this figure was a conservative estimate, since a number of the biggest companies, as well as any firms employed by the State Department or other agencies or NGOs, were not included in the census
I was 12 when the U.S. went into Iraq. I remember watching cable news the moment that began. I think I was too young to understand. Why was Blackrock there?
The real question is what can we do about it
