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.
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.
Idk, I wanted to kill myself as a kid and don’t now. So personally, the world seems pretty okay to me.
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.
I’m just happy that I’m old enough not no be immediately drafted.
I don’t have to worry about being drafted, I’m officially morally unqualified to serve in my nation’s armed forces!
Don’t worry they make waivers for everything.
Then i get free shot at some officers!
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I wouldn’t have had to worry about that anyway.
I would be considered 4F
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.
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.
I’ve felt like Courage the Cowardly Dog until the last year or two.
Cries in Elder Millennial
70s and 80s too
this is happening to everyone.
Just imagine living in Ukraine or Iran…at any age right now.
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
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80s babies too
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?
Healthy people want to live in peace, but also recognize when is the time to fight for that peace.
Si vis pacem…
“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.
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?
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.
I am comfortable with the knowledge that I spent the best years of my life in the '90s. The music, the clothes, the general vibe, the prices… The few wars of the era look like kids playing Risk compared to what’s brewing now.
The lifestyle and material conditions enabled by a century and a half of fossil fuels are coming to a close.
It will only get worse from here. There is no recovery.
Idk, my life is pretty fuckin great right now.
I agree, but people dont like to hear that.
There is always the possibility that we are wrong also.
90s Babies.
U live the easiest life in the history of humanity.That’s not mutually exclusive with frustration at the world falling apart around us.
Correct. And I weep about it almost every day. One, because I miss it (and my youth), and two, because I look at kids today and it can’t be fun.
one has anxiety as well
and the adhd goblins are also there in the background
All my dopamine comes from marketed bullshit and none of it is authentic or genuine.
I see what you did there - and that was beautiful.
Roll for initiative!
Nat 20 here we go, I cast vicious mockery
You’re a short mother fucker and nobody likes you! Vicious flute playing
SHORT
Do they both come inside or do they also have ED from depression?
Include this 80s duder. Oof.
I don’t want to heal, I want to guillotine some billionaires.
Cutting out tumors is part of the healing process.
Uncontrolled growth that blocks healthy cells from just doing their job and hogs all the resources. Hey, that metaphor ain’t half bad!
Guillotine and ice cream, a winning combination.
Oh my god yes. Tart cherry saffron and rose ice cream with pistachios and lemon syrup on top, and a slice of gold leaf chocolate cake (cherry filled to create a narrative cullinary thread) while i watch a billionaire killed?
Maybe someone cute to make out with as we watch the head come off? Fried savoury spicy noodles after? Some nice music?
What do you think healing looks like, if not that? 😌
That is healing.
I take both
“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
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.
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
one causes the other
Anti-intellectualism is causing both
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?
It is very possible in our lifetime we will see famine and fresh water shortage.
This isnt entirely accurate because there’s no wave for nuclear annihilation
Everything is a distraction from the feedback loops
Today I was close to become the Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker
We do, as a matter of fact, live in a society.
