With climate change, COVID, and war no longer on the horizon but at our front doors do you all also feel like you're living through the start of the end? I'm immunocompromised I can't go out even in small social circles, weather is insane, and everyone that is near the center is a war hawk. I feel like I'm screaming into the void but honestly I'm just scared and want to know I'm not alone in this feeling
Yes and no.
The world you grew up with or was told existed before or during your childhood will never exist and may never have existed in the first place.
The opportunities and futures implicit and explicit in those worlds cannot be achieved.
But there’s not gonna be like a game over screen or a moment of recognition that the thread of prophecy is cut.
We will not experience a moment where everyone stops playing their parts and solos atonally at once, but a gradual change over the course of decades.
Our priorities will shift and our expectations will too. We will persist in the doomed world because we are not doomed.
What has been lost is the possibility of using fossil fuels as a springboard to a future free from want. People lived before that idea and will afterwards.