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    It’s difficult being a millennial and trying to confront the nostalgic feeling (that naturally comes with aging) that “things were better in my youth,” because things objectively were better in my youth.

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      Also ignorance is bliss and as kids we didn’t give a shit about politics. But in this instance things were 100% better no doubt.

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      Idk, I wanted to kill myself as a kid and don’t now. So personally, the world seems pretty okay to me.

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      I dunno man, there was an atomic cloud over Europe from a reactor meltdown which meant we couldn’t go outside when I was a kid.

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    “I wish that none of this had happened”

    “so do all who live too see such times, but that is not for them to decide. all we have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

    as hard as it to reconcile with the world disintegrating when you’re coming together as a person (I’m in the same boat) I find the above quote gives me some courage to accept such a condition and to act steadfastly instead, as a testament that life is worth living and fighting for

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      Gandalf’s line is probably my favorite from the book. You can only control what you can control. Do what you can, and know at the end of the day that you did your best, regardless of the outcome.

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    My biggest fear is climate change tbh, trump, facism, and capitalism are terrible, but the biggest threat to the future of humanity is climate change

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      Sometimes you can be a little self-centered. While climate change is overwhelming, a huge catastrophe for society and humanity’s future, how much will it directly affect you? Most of us will really only see more of the same: more severe and unstable weather, modified seasons, times where food and power are more expensive. You can handle that.

      Sometimes it’s ok not to think too much about the statistics telling the bigger story or the news detailing the more extreme effects. As long as you know they exist

      What can you do about the things that directly affect you? What can you do about the things in your control?

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    I, for one, feel a lot less crazy now that people are seeing what I have been seeing for a long time. I hear about it more even from old folks, my in laws now ask more questions as do my own parents. That gives me a lot of hope. Change is inevitable.

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      Same here. I’ve been saying for 25 years that the right wing Christian clowns were going to ruin this country and eventually the world. At the time my folks, family and friends all thought I was just some conspiracy nut.

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      I had ten years more WW3 is about to happen at any time than you did. We saw Northern Ireland become a peaceful place after such a long time like a war zone, the Middle East calmed down after always being a warzone somewhere or other. We watched the Berlin Wall come down in ’89 with such optimism, the USSR broke up peacefully and Europe started to be a more interesting place, now these borders with Russia are bloody dangerous. Somehow there’s a new and improved ‘Cold War’ that isn’t actually a secret at all, a real war hiding behind words like conflict, the holy lands are all to hell again, my god we are useless at this peace thing - the rich twats just can’t make enough money unless we’re all suffering obviously.

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    70s and 80s too

    this is happening to everyone.

    Just imagine living in Ukraine or Iran…at any age right now.

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      Oh man I’d prefer to not compare myself or my problems to active war zones. Lifes rough no matter the place but I have plenty of opportunity to make good on it. That may or may not be the case for folks in Ukraine or Iran… and then I think of Pakistan…fuck

      Edit: fat finger spelling

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    If you share how you improve, others could join. That could grow until everybody is healed.

    Question is, what do healthy people want? Do they want to live in peace or do they prefer to fight and to risk everything?

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      “healthy” people want to be lied to and be told everything will be ok so they can continue being selfish pricks. not because they are selfish pricks, but because our species is selfish pricks.

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        Our species is not that selfish. The selfishness is what is induced to make people “healthy”.

        I am asking about healthy people. What do they want?

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          The systems put into place benefit the selfish because the selfish are willing to do whatever it takes to appease their own self interest regardless of any sense of morality or shame.

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      Some of the world is improving. Some has been regressing. The last 30 years weren’t a very stable time, and even the accounts of what is happening is not reliable. Not acknowledging that has been incredibly harmful for everybody.

      Anyway, yes, improve your life and the society around you. It’s what you can do.

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      Thanks for the attempt, but all I see are “the 17 sustainable development goals” where the Trump administration wants to take us backwards

      Hopefully I’m just being us-centric and I understand our current issues may be partly obscured by long term trends and global statistics. However we also have an outsized effect on the world and those are some of the first places cut or corrupted, changed from achievements to points of instigation