Asklemmy

People have been trying to ignore the world so they can get their high for the last several decades to the point where one the largest companies advertising on the internet is one where you pay people who label themselves as "councilors" with barely training to gaslight you hopefully to feel better and people know brand name drugs for helping them feel better and suggest them to others if you are wealthy enough. And been struggling to hold onto that sense of normalcy at all costs of the world.

And all of that avoidance meant jack-shit when the real world changed anyways and it didn't just stay the same.

People likely feel lied to and that miserableness spreads like a virus of selfish people doing anything to prove themselves better than others at the cost of others.

Well humanity is dying a little bit due to climate change.

Over 20 years ago I started to see the many problems with the world. Over the course of those ~20 years I saw more and more problems begin, none of them are ever resolved. There was a point where I believed I wouldn't live long enough to see the full ramifications, but now it seems like those problems are compounding faster and faster.

I dunno man, genocides and overtly fascist takeovers just have a shitty affect on the vibe.

Climate change is getting worse and the world in general is sliding into fascism. The odds of things getting better in our lifetimes is very low. I'm only happy when I'm focusing on what's around me and not the big picture, because the big picture is bleak.

The whole world is indeed in a bad mood and the reason is we’re all addicted to social media, which makes people miserable.

It’s impossible to fully patrol one’s territory in cyberspace. That means our hippocampus never sends the “all clear” signal which would allow us to relax from fight or flight mode.

As a result, the entire population of humanity is in an unprecedented state of hypervigilance.

Covid causes brain damage and increased aggression.

Chinese people seem pretty happy on Rednote.

They mostly empathize with us Americans for our life of economic struggle for our wealth class in exchange for nothing but Subsistence.

They're confused as to how it's allowed to happen. They thought a lot of true horror stories about our health insurance murder industry and living paycheck go paycheck statistically unlikely to be able to cover a 400 expense was their government's propaganda, and are horrified it's not.

It's amazing how many protections non-wealthy people have there.

I now completely understand why our government doesn't want us having casual conversations with actual societies of people, as opposed to capitalist slaughterhouses like we are here in the US. Mooooo....

Also their cars are so high tech ours are in the stone age by comparison. No wonder they can't sell them here, they'd eat our lunch. App controlled call the car to pull up to you, captains chairs that power rotate into new configurations, on and on.

All honesty, I tend to be optimistic to a fault and try really hard to be cheerful.

Everything starts to crack once socioeconomics comes up. The news lately is all about how everything is about to get worse. "This is collapsing, that's more expensive, getting a slice of diminishing wages is going to be even harder now! They're cracking down here and forcing ads there." Etc etc.

When I'm knee-deep in fixing up my servers or making art or being with my people, everything is just peachy!

But yeah, "How next money tho?" Usually starts the mental downward spiral.

I love living, can do a ton of things, love learning, but I don't get along with churning out a repetitive task for increasingly worthless currency.

The world outside of what I'm choosing to do feels entirely impossibly out of our control. So I try to balance being informed with staying sane.

Like damn I don't need much, can't folk just be left alone? Lol

Wonder if a lot of people feel like I do?

There's an ongoing genocide and nobody is fighting it or even condemning it, bar a few weak powers like Yemen, DPRK, South Africa.

Seems like mostly just people in the west because western world order is now visibly collapsing.

covid causes vascular damage

I'm just waiting to die at this point. Fuck this life. Fuck this world. I'd kill myself if I wasn't such a pussy. I keep living with the vague hope that things might get better, but deep down I already know it won't.

It is and if you can't see it it's because you are being dragged down too.

I'm going to remark something nobody seem to be focusing on. Humans didn't evolve 1 million years to eat processed food and be around artificial everything.

Idk, some leftist people (including minorities) are energized and motivated, so it’s important not to get stuck in some weird self-defeating trap. Political up and downs happen every generation. Don’t fall for the doomer BS, it’s important to keep following through with your personal goals and persevere. Find a community and volunteer, take care of each other.

Ultimately people should seek to close gaps with others, and try to find common ground, while acknowledging that there are some values which cannot be compromised, like sacrificing someone’s humanity and (personal/psychological) safety.

Everyone seems to be doomscrolling

I'm in a good mood! :)