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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[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can we agree, this approach to the future seems to be designed to dig for new, and more horrible lows?

So, two things.

One. You make some good points. I agree with you.

Two. I never said it's better now. I was there in the 80s, 90s, graduated in '01. Switched professions, failed to launch a career, started again, lived at home... left North America, came back to the hottest real estate market in the world, still failing to launch a career. I feel you. I'm neck deep with you.

Every thing you've described has been happening since then. It was very bad then. We can't go metric for metric. That's how we lose the forest by counting the trees. We do need to say it was always bad and still getting worse.

I said, above, then was very bad. Possibly, the worst way to end a century and start another. I also localized my comments specify discrete experiences. What you're describing, what you feel now, in MTL; they felt it there, then.

To say the same is happening in more places is, clearly, a worse state of affairs. A spread of a cancer, if you will. I addressed the kernel issue, "another time since WWII where things were this bad." If you've got a water-borne toxin spreading metastatic cancer, it's origins are just as punctuate — and devastating on the affected — as its spread. Poverty, homelessness, conflict, oppression, extortion — these aren't worse now because there's more of it. They've always been bad.

In conclusion, can we agree, the future seems to be designed to dig for new, and more horrible lows? I worry that a focus shift to the new, more horrible lows runs the risk of excusing the upper bounds of this hellscape.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I can agree with that. high five 🙏