I think one of the biggest issues is that nothing is real anymore. 90% of what 90% of us do is utterly meaningless. For the average person, life is entirely solved. Our problems are mostly by choice, be it ours or someone else's. The only real things in our lives are tragedies that we'd never have been able to prevent or resolve anyway.

An apocalypse is enticing because then our actions would have direct consequences. Right now, the consequences of our actions are filtered and diffused through a trillion layers of bullshit where the positive and negative effects are basically invisible unless you make a ridiculous amount of money very quickly, or like, kill someone with your car.

Watch for when Zombie/apocalypse movies start getting popular again.

It's absolutely a sign of mass despair at "the system".

Zombies make everyone equal again. The executive actually becomes dead weight compared to folks who have spent their lives doing physical or practical labour.

I honestly loved covid. Am I crazy? I got to stay in with my girl, be comfy, work from home, then watch movies and play video games, all with zero fomo.

“We’ve reached a point where Americans would rather the world fall apart than get off their cowardly asses and do something.”

My therapist told me that, in fact, it's not normal to wish to be hit by a bus on the way to work every morning just so you could escape from going to work.

I hate to admit it but I’d love to go back to Covid times where I was forced to stay in my house and never leave. I don’t want people dying but I’m so fucking tired.

Being hit by a motor vehicle of some sort owned by a large company with deep pockets and suffering a horrific but ultimately temporary injury with absolutely no longer-term health effects that nonetheless results in a seven figure injury settlement

Source. Attribution is cool.

I just started letting it all out. Its the same as societal collapse but happening in real time.

people use alcohol to escape from certain things. i know people who did the reverse with work, they use work to escape from dealing problems at home.

What's struck me is how in America, the reality is the opposite of those fantasies. What's that? The nation's capital is being stormed by fascists attempting to kidnap lawmakers and overthrow the electoral process? And I'm still expected to just work like it's just a normal day??

Many, many people, including myself, embraced the shit out of COVID.

That was a pretty clear sign that our society and way of life sucks.

No joke this is me. I had a major surgical procedure a decade ago. It was a 3 day hospital stay to recover. It's one of the most relaxing, peaceful times of my life, even with all the pain and nurses checking on me. I remember it very fondly.

This is the premise of Zom100: Bucket list of the Dead, the main character's job is so shitty, he considers the zombie apocalypse to be a massive improvement over having to go to work and just starts living his best life and doing all the things he never had time for.

It's very relatable.

That's why I never really fell into religion. Like 10 times in recent history, the apocalypse or rapture was supposed to happen; people were clapping their hands for Jesus' return, thinking they'd be chosen to ascend or go wherever. For how long exactly? Have they always been like this? I can't help but stand there wondering if those people aren't wrapped too tight and loose with reality; they kind of worry me. It's like they actually want the world to end every waking day, and they believe it.

Can confirm. This is me. Especially after the last two years. Everything just feels so hopeless, and I'm expected to spend most of my waking hours feeding a system that gleefully kicks us in the teeth every single day.

I actually have money and a stable job and even I want a change, I’m tired

Covid time was personally great for me. Vietnam locked things down. We had food delivered. We didn't get sick. At home with the wife and kid. Watching movies and tv. Playing games. Making the second kid. I worked from home for something like 6 to 9 months because my office is in a neighboring province and VN didn't allow travel between provinces until a later relaxing of restrictions after vaccines became available.

I like to refer to this state as "Existential Apathy".

At some point, you just stop giving a shit and want to stop having to pretend to give a shit more than anything else.

"it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"

Yes but somehow I would guess people in war zones, say for example in Ukraine, somehow wish for this boring normality we seem to be tired of. I try to think of that every time i seem too tired of the grind. Though in some way, I think everybody matters more in a war than in a peaceful economy

Is that not a normal feeling? Because I felt that way long before things got this bad.

Just getting silly here, but what if the people who are harmed by the system come together and abolish the system, because they are the majority?

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We've hit the point where people find the end of the world is more likely than the end of capitalism

"You're relieved you don't have to go to work 'cause you thought you were gonna get eaten? What the fuck is this world?"

At least that kind of fantasy is a real outcome rather than the delusional cope mechanism that has everyone believing this kind of reality should continue. The one where nothing significantly changes and we keep going one step forward, 2 steps back. All while people die, the inequality continues, etc.

I don't like being false about where we are and where we should be. This is not right.

Thats one of the worst things about being a parent to a small child. I used to get excited about getting the flu. Week in bed just gormed out watching crap on TV.

Also because people come together during major crises.

And unfortunately, it does not look like we'll be able to get rid of capitalism (and more importantly capitalists) without either a mass uprising or a devastating catastrophe (like total ecological collapse).

Currently we're about to reach the latter, which I don't think is preferable, but perhaps it'll turn out well in the end. I sure hope so.