I'm just trying to come to terms with my trauma, can the world, I don't know, improve with me or something instead of getting worse?
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?
I take both
What do you think healing looks like, if not that? 😌
I've been thinking about it and Ilike stoning for this. Every person throwing a stone is deciding whether that person should suffer or die, and how much pain to inflict..
Thats really beautiful, and a kind of poetic way to reach effective consensus.
Thank you. You're a beautiful person.
That is healing.
Include this 80s duder. Oof.
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.
I dunno, I hear stories from my coworkers about how bad East Germany and other former Soviet states were in the 80s/90s. It depends a lot on where you were fortunate enough to grow up.
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 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
Everything is a distraction from the feedback loops
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
The world's healing progresses much more slowly than the individual's. We have hundreds of years of colonialism and ecological devastation to heal from and that shit won't happen overnight. You are part of the world and your healing makes the world better. Focus on what you can do and do that. Trying to take responsibility for the whole mess will destroy you, it's out of your hands.
Right, and this is just one of those times where the scab was itchy so we scratched it off. We re-opened the gouge and are bleeding again. The question is whether the healing is still happening, with a little backtracking, or whether we’re exposing ourselves to gangrene
Looked outside? Not a question. Need a bone saw if we want to heal.
Okay but if it could move in vaguely the same direction as me that would be great.
This was beautifully stated. Thank you for your wholesome response, VampirePenguin.
I genuinely believe there is 0 chance we will ever heal the earth. Collapse of Earths natural systems seem inevitable.
You don't heal the earth. It's like meditation, you don't force the mindset, the mindset comes to you and you can't control it, but you can learn to respect it for what it is.
The Earth is huge and doesn't really care about us. We disappear, in a hundred years nothing's left except some exotic isotopes in a thin geological layer.
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.
I was born in 1984, how do you experience more ironic dystopian bullshit
*born into 1984
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.
Today I was close to become the Joaquin Phoenix's Joker
We do, as a matter of fact, live in a society.
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
Edit: fat finger spelling
Cries in Elder Millennial
The world is improving: https://ourworldindata.org/sdgs it's only the media focusing on conflict, gore and problems as that sells better and keeps people scared. Go on healing and follow your path!
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.
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
I hope things get better for you, fam.
Like I said, I'm improving. It's the world falling apart around me that's making me feel it's a bit superfluous to be achieving mental stability at this point in life.
Glad to hear it. I think it's common for scholars and activists to ignore self-care, but it's not superfluous.
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.
"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.
Si vis pacem...
I chose cheerful nihilism a long time ago.
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.
Unfortunately, no. At this point, the majority of humans in every country have allowed the worst of us to amass and consolidate power to the point where things will only get worse until complete destruction. Without a concerted and basically worldwide effort to take those power structures back, everything progresses downward. For my part, I can only hope we go out fast and soon so some of the planet's ecological systems and species can be saved.
This is unhelpful.
Sorry, I didn't know not agreeing was required for this post.
Well, that was more bleak and depressing than the post.
Also, hard disagree. Not everything is lost.
I mean, let's hope you're right. But we're about to enter WWIII if it hasn't already started as well as the next mass extinction event while our leaders do everything possible to spur both on. It's not exactly compellingly hopeful times.
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!
Do they both come inside or do they also have ED from depression?
one has anxiety as well