Any day now wages will increase I guess. Any day now the price of a house will be affordable to a human who makes an average salary. Any day now the job market will rebound and AI will be cleaned up and regulated so that everyone has an opportunity to live
Are people just in denial that we are living in a dystopia? The only people I know in my life who have “made it” stumbled into the the most extreme circumstances (some out of complete tragedy and others out of luck), and everyone else is a hamster on a wheel
Anyway, any destinations for expat curious people?
Are people just in denial
Yes. The level of denial is heavily effected by propaganda and brainworms which is why older people comepletely refuse to accept reality right now
I feel the same when people say it about mental health.
Literally how is it going to get better? I've tried many things, nothing has worked.
Mental health and material conditions go hand in hand comrade
They’re definitely related, but my crippling social anxiety isn’t really about my material conditions.
I’m British. I’ve been saying for years “the tories just need to get <issue> out the way”.
I listen to Trashfuture because haha funny silly startups, and get exposed to UK politics tangentially when they talk about it. It really looks like they're just queueing up groups of people to fuck over and they will never run out. It's really grim.
"Things will get better" is the only thing that keeps me going out there and doing praxis. Otherwise I would just spend every non-working hour catatonic in bed.
Exactly, I look at the phrase as "things will get better (with action)" to motivate myself.
While this particular brainworm affects not just Americans, it seems that white Americans seem to have the most acute case of it. And older Americans much more than younger ones. I think it has two main causes. One is that older, white Americans have basically had zero friction in their lives. They think everything will work out because everything has worked out pretty great for them. I think there’s also the thing at play here where these people don’t want to actually support policies that would help the situation, either because their taxes will go up or because that means they would have to support politics different from what they’ve supported their whole lives.
To extent that young people say this, I think it’s just a way to be polite without admitting that yeah shit sucks I don’t have any answers either.
"Surely, we've reached rock bottom!"
*things get worse*
"Ah well, nevertheless!"I have had the luxury to not meet any of these people. I do believe things will get better though, but that’s because of the concerted action of socialists.
I feel like most people acknowledge problems but are in denial over the root cause. Especially when told that their complicity is part of the problem.
