I’m worried for the world. All I’ve been thinking about is WW3 and this shit makes me want to vomit. I can’t even smoke weed anymore without having a near panic attack. I feel unmotivated. I wake up and immediately just want to go back to bed. I’m not trying to spread fear but the Doomsday clock is 90 seconds till midnight, during the Cuban missile crisis, it was 7 minutes before midnight. Can we just have one day of fucking peace? Can everyone just stop for one day and enjoy one day of peace?

  • bionicjoey
    766·
    8 months ago

    Don’t worry about WW3. The more inevitable thing that will destroy us is climate change.

    But seriously, why worry about stuff you can’t change? If they launch the nukes, then you’ll be dead and so it won’t matter if you worried about it or not. So you might as well just not worry.

    • Rickety ThuddsEnglish
      251·
      8 months ago

      Activism would help very little, but at least it isn’t fatalism.

      • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
        171·
        8 months ago

        I don’t think parent poster meant to espouse nihilism. Rather just acceptance. You can still find meaning in living day to day if worrying about the future becomes debilitating.

        • newnton@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          8 months ago

          This. Seeing one person who you helped smile makes you happy, even if it may not solve all the worlds problems. Volunteering has always brought me much more joy and helped me deal with existential dread better than ignoring the news or any other change I can make

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          8 months ago

          Public service announcement that the OG nihilists like Nietzsche were actually pretty hyped about the meaninglessness of the universe. The idea was that it gave you more freedom to live life and find your own meaning, like you said.

    • teft@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      I’ll add to his anxiety.

      The nukes probably won’t immediately kill most of us. Only the people living in city centers or near military installations or government facilities will be killed by the nukes. The rest of us will starve as the nuclear winter sets in and kills off our food sources.

    • mellowheat@suppo.fi
      1·
      8 months ago

      Don’t worry about WW3. The more inevitable thing that will destroy us is climate change.

      I mean could be both. Climate change making everything so much worse for 90% of the population that WW3 starts to seem like a great option for them.