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It feels like news, politicians and people I swear to god have to be literal NPCs, are all trying to insist that everything's going back to normal. Everything's fine, everything's gonna work itself out, just calm down, take a deep breath and it'll be fine. But then they turn around and talk about how the world is ending. Everything's horrible, the world is collapsing. Then they turn around again and say, "seriously though, everything's fine, I swear."
Then you look around and realize everything is very much not fine. Things are very much getting worse and there doesn't seem to be a rational, peaceful solution to it because the people causing problems are whipping each other into a frenzy. They desperately want violence. They desperately want blood. They've been told it's the only way to have a good life or get into heaven, and they'll be damned before they'll let you stand in their way or try to show them who the real enemy is.