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.
Cries in Elder Millennial
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 don’t want to heal, I want to guillotine some billionaires.
That is healing.
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!
What do you think healing looks like, if not that? 😌
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? Or fried savoury noodles after?
I take both
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.
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
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.
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.
Okay but if it could move in vaguely the same direction as me that would be great.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
one has anxiety as well
Do they both come inside or do they also have ED from depression?
Include this 80s duder. Oof.
“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.
80s babies too
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.
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
Anti-intellectualism is causing both
one causes the other
This isnt entirely accurate because there’s no wave for nuclear annihilation
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.
Everything is a distraction from the feedback loops
I was born in 1984, how do you experience more ironic dystopian bullshit
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.
*born into 1984
Today I was close to become the Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker
We do, as a matter of fact, live in a society.
