I used to read through history and so frequently I would wonder things like "how did these serfs just put up with this for so long?"
I no longer wonder these things.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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I'm just over here hoping we destroy ourselves for the benefit of the universe as a whole. We're a blight.
over here hoping we destroy ourselves for the benefit of the universe
... and Trump took that literally.
don't say things such as this, not even as a joke :)
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…..
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.
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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.
William Gibson wrote: The future has arrived, it's just not evenly distributed.
Yeah I've been feeling bizarre as the US falls into fascism and ill just be at work like any other day
I feel like it’s always been? I read a lot of history and there’s not many instances of peace and prosperity for all. Things considered im happy i live in the modern world, wish I could live in the pre 9/11 sweet spot, shit wasn’t off the deep end as far as it is now, and homes were affordable
pre 9/11 sweet spot
There's a line in Fight Club about how Jack's generation has no great war, out no way to prove themselves. It really is a great example of how things felt pre-9/11.
I am Jack's overwhelming sense of buyer's remorse.
I recently watched that movie when I turned 40. It hits different when you’re older, when you’re a teen or young person half of it goes over your head. Especially how young people glorify it and the whole fight club thing, not grasping that the movie is about toxic masculinity among other things
Shit wasn't of the deep end... for some countries.
It’s not possible to have prosperity and peace globally, it’s just not human nature. So even in the most prosperous utopia, war and shit always gonna happen. Reminds me of the bio shock quote “even in an equal utopia someone has to scrub the toilets”
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No, the current climate change situation is unparalleled in human history.
Humans have been at risk of ending their own species for almost a hundred years now.
Ok but that’s hardly what this post is talking about, and tbh the Roman’s gave us a run for their money with climate change and we’re lucky they didn’t have fossil fuels
I sometimes wonder if I'll ever be inspired again. Or feel motivated.
Seeing a convict run amok and President really fucks with your mental health.
Seeing the blatantly corrupt and evil people just makes it hard to care about anything anymore.
I sometimes just stare in the dark night wondering why im still here when other people who wanted to do things are not here anymore.
The eternal pendulum of nihilism and existentialism.
Nihilism, there is no meaning. Existential, there is no meaning, so find meaning.
If you can, find a reason. Find that meaning. And, if nothing else, live and love out of spite. One day, you'll wake up to the obituaries (naturally caused; no martyrs here please) of the awful people. And you'll never have to think on them again, ideally.
Its cyclical, there is no end or beginning just a chain of actions. Might not be the fun part od the circle but it goes around again, we will see better days.
Alexei Yurchak who was a professor of anthropology coined a term for this: Hypernormalisation.
From Wikipedia: "He introduced the word in his book 'Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation', which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s. He says everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, the mass delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy, with everyone accepting it as the new norm rather than pretend."
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It's nearly dissociative. It's utterly unreal.
It requires a strong will, lots of courage, and a strong stomach to face and accept the state of the world. I'm still working on all that, but I feel like I'm getting closer and closer by the day.
I can face it. I will not accept it.
I didn't mean provide consent or bow down — most certainly not. I just meant mentally coming to terms with reality and accepting what needs to be changed.
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This weekend I built a shed in my back yard, which was a nice bit of father-son bonding, and stockpiled ammo in case civil unrest causes widespread violence to break out in our neighborhood.
Definitely a strange vibe.
plant food trees and gardens…