I think one of the biggest issues is that nothing is real anymore. 90% of what 90% of us do is utterly meaningless. For the average person, life is entirely solved. Our problems are mostly by choice, be it ours or someone else’s. The only real things in our lives are tragedies that we’d never have been able to prevent or resolve anyway.
An apocalypse is enticing because then our actions would have direct consequences. Right now, the consequences of our actions are filtered and diffused through a trillion layers of bullshit where the positive and negative effects are basically invisible unless you make a ridiculous amount of money very quickly, or like, kill someone with your car.
“We’ve reached a point where Americans would rather the world fall apart than get off their cowardly asses and do something.”
It’s always the same
The fact that plenty of them, most famously that poster-boy for 'Murican shit Henry Ford was a huge fan of Hitler and his bullshit gets glossed over
They sat out the war until they were pushed
And it will happen again and again, even when the problem is in their own house
Watch for when Zombie/apocalypse movies start getting popular again.
It’s absolutely a sign of mass despair at “the system”.
Zombies make everyone equal again. The executive actually becomes dead weight compared to folks who have spent their lives doing physical or practical labour.
My therapist told me that, in fact, it’s not normal to wish to be hit by a bus on the way to work every morning just so you could escape from going to work.
I am bad about not looking when I cross at crosswalks. Someone asked me about it once, “If they hit me hard enough it won’t be my problem anymore.”
I just started letting it all out. Its the same as societal collapse but happening in real time.
people use alcohol to escape from certain things. i know people who did the reverse with work, they use work to escape from dealing problems at home.
I honestly loved covid. Am I crazy? I got to stay in with my girl, be comfy, work from home, then watch movies and play video games, all with zero fomo.
Great for me; I’m “neurodivergent” anyway. Perish the thought of being forced to deal with sociopaths and other stressed-out employees I’d need to work with all day, every day until you die? Now that’s my idea of going crazy!..
I lost my grandma during covid and I’d still rather go back to that then this hell scape. At least with Covid I didn’t have to schedule my breakdowns.
“You’re relieved you don’t have to go to work 'cause you thought you were gonna get eaten? What the fuck is this world?”
I actually have money and a stable job and even I want a change, I’m tired
That’s why I never really fell into religion. Like 10 times in recent history, the apocalypse or rapture was supposed to happen; people were clapping their hands for Jesus’ return, thinking they’d be chosen to ascend or go wherever. For how long exactly? Have they always been like this? I can’t help but stand there wondering if those people aren’t wrapped too tight and loose with reality; they kind of worry me, actually. It’s like they want the world to end every waking day, and they believe it.
At least that kind of fantasy is a real outcome rather than the delusional cope mechanism that has everyone believing this kind of reality should continue. The one where nothing significantly changes and we keep going one step forward, 2 steps back. All while people die, the inequality continues, etc.
I don’t like being false about where we are and where we should be. This is not right.
Yes but somehow I would guess people in war zones, say for example in Ukraine, somehow wish for this boring normality we seem to be tired of. I try to think of that every time i seem too tired of the grind. Though in some way, I think everybody matters more in a war than in a peaceful economy
The ol’ grass is greener on the other side paradox. I get it though, I sometimes catch myself thinking it. I don’t even hate my job, it’s just exhausting for reasons I’m working to resolve.
I get excited during wildfire season.
Maybe my house will burn down and I’ll get to go on a road trip for a few months while it gets sorted out…
Thats one of the worst things about being a parent to a small child. I used to get excited about getting the flu. Week in bed just gormed out watching crap on TV.
What’s struck me is how in America, the reality is the opposite of those fantasies. What’s that? The nation’s capital is being stormed by fascists attempting to kidnap lawmakers and overthrow the electoral process? And I’m still expected to just work like it’s just a normal day??
I was literally stuck in a fucking Zoom meeting watching the insurrection in another window. Fuck this timeline.
