The world is such a depressing inhumane shit show at the moment. And I'm tired of being gaslit by every government from my local borough administration all the way to the federal government.

Capitalism and fascism had taken a hold on the world's nations the likes of which we have never seen in the history of humankind.

And the worst part is I feel people have been indoctrinated to as point where we're never gong to collectively get out of it. I don't even think a violent revolution is possible because people are too fucking dumb to notice what's wrong.

And the "fuck you, I got mine" attitude that capitalism has brought has ruined any chance of salvation. Empathy and solidarity are ridiculed as being some woke mind virus.

The world's climate is beyond fucked. There's wars and crimes against humanity being perpetrated by the Epstein class in our name. We keep electing wolves in sheep's clothing who win our votes on fake promises to help us then turn against us and double down on policies that make life more difficult and increase our level of misery. Unless you're a billionaire CEO or a politician, your life is absolutely worthless. You're nothing more than a low value resource. And you don't have freedom. Neither of speech or otherwise. Not as long as what you say or do goes against what the elites want.

We're fucked. I don't foresee any future worth living in.

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[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I've recently been thinking more about ways humanity can survive even as this dumb house of cards that capitalism has built collapses. Small communities with the ability to produce their own food through means that they understand well and can control will persist as the collapse happens. The ability to make their own tools, practice the sort of farming that respects the limits of the land instead of pimping it up with ammonia, minimizing external dependencies that rely on fragile systems that define those of suicidal capitalism — those that prioritize short term monetary gains over long term resiliency — and instead find ways to create tools, techniques, and systems that endure, from the ability to make your own rake to till the soil to creating machineries that one can fix themselves. A community that understands their own stack of cards is one that owns it and thus control their own destiny, instead of sourcing their cards from sources that rely on long, fragile supply chains typically seen from companies that bank on the economies of scale to price themselves lower to subvert their competitors.

And it turns out there already are such movements; they just don't neccessarily stand right in your face and market to you about it because not only is it still rather fragmented, it's highly decentralized. Eco-villages, the Slow Food movement (RIP to their founder, who passed away just 3 days ago), Transition Towns, Hackerspace / Makerspace + the Open Source movement + Right to Repair, etc. They may not all be thinking that they're building against collapse of the capitalistic system, but they'll quite likely survive for longer. It doesn't mean that it'll be easy, that there won't be a lot of suffering going around; there will be plenty, and there will likely be more violence (more wars, crimes, people finding desperate ways to gain food and resources from others), but resilience for those that are more prepared is the point.

When we know that the existing system that supports the world we live in is cracking and is showing no will of fixing itself, it's important to remember thay we can still take matter into our own hands and help ourselves and those around us. We don't have to give up on those we love and love us. And, this is cheesy to say, but tragedy is not the end; it's the beginning of hope. At least that's what I tell myself.

Hoping this would help give you some light in these dark times. Cheers.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I really do want to participate more but it's difficult with a full time job. I hate my job. But it pays well.

I secretly wish I was fired so I could focus on other things to help my community.

[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 1 points 15 minutes ago

I feel you on that. I'm generally wasted after work cause my work demands a lot of my brain power and ability to context switch quickly. I'm also an immigrant, wasn't born rich, came here alone for university and continued working, with no family here, and still single too thanks to not having the mental energy to socialize on most days. My work pays well too, and the people are nice to work with, but it's not something that really fits my vision for the future, and, while my they are nice, I don't think my coworkers share the same kind of thoughts for the future. That said, I can live somewhat comfortably now, from near nothing to something, thanks to my job, from not needing to drive, and just needing little to live on.

I've been wanting to join my local Makerspace, but I don't know how well that'll work out if I can't show up consistently enough. To make things even harder, I'm quite the introvert too, so socializing is bad on my social fuel.

But I know I gotta push myself and try at some point, and the sooner the better, not just for my whole spiel earlier, but also for expanding my somewhat small social circle (at least, I think it's pretty small, but dang, it's so hard to keep those connections afresh).

I'm actively trying to push my work env to essentially lessen my burden so that I'd have more energy left for myself after work. It's not really working though, cause I'm just rewarded with more work after a job well done in getting more people to be able to share my work, and now I ended up as the expert whom all these people go to for help.

I yapped there, but my point is to say thay I'm trying myself too and I know it's not necessarily easy. But I'm determined to find some way.