I'm having an r/collapse induced depression rn. Not helped by the fact the Amazon forests just became CO2 releasing and dozens of ecosystems are just collapsing in Australia.
The future looks bleak. I'll probably live to see the worst of it. Am sad, how do you cope?
Fuck, I don't even doom scroll and I'm depressed about it too. It's the realization that the bright future for humanity you've always imagined is a lie. I don't know if there is a healthy way to cope with this.
The 21st century is going to spill a sea of blood on a scale the world has never seen before and we're alive at just the right time to witness it.
Personally I've given up all expectations on living past like 50 because even disregarding climate change I'll probably never be able to retire. I'm also not in a mentally healthy enough place right now to put any effort into organizing, so the only thing I've been able to do to calm my soul is descend into hedonism. And that sucks as someone four years clean from opioids. I feel like I'm destined to relapse one day, probably not in the near future, but one day.
Anyway, sorry, didn't mean to make this thread more depressing, but that's where I'm at on all this bullshit right now.
I guess if I had to choose my biggest remaining sliver of hope in all this, I'd say China eventually taking the reigns of global hegemony. Maybe once America is out of the way, given it doesn't decide to take everyone else out with it, China will be able to combine massive geoengineering projects with ceasing carbon emissions to take some of the edge off of the worst effects. Realistically there isn't enough time, but I have to keep that hope in my heart.
Your comrades born in the 1890s faced the same prospect. They faced machine gun fire and mustard gas in the name of some inbred asshole who had a spat with his cousin. They were harassed by private agencies like the Pinkertons as well as cops, and frequently got beat or killed. They lived in absolute sties and slums that were loaded with coal runoff, sewage, or other nasty pollutants. They saw their leaders thrown in jail or executed for opposing the barbaric slaughter of the Great War. They were thrown in concentration camps by the Nazis. They still kept fighting.
"I thought Jeffrey Epstein was my friend, but he's actually a fake friend" - middle class utopians
Is this a meme or did you intentionally find the worst possible interpretation