I mean hopefully it can be delayed by a year or two until I can get SRS and move to Seattle and integrate into some leftist networks. But we're all just stuck in this limbo of waiting for the evil empire to implode and it's still tottering along, smashing thousands of lives daily. I'm not romanticizing the Cool Zone, I'm just tired of being kept on the edge - waiting, waiting. Let's just get it the fuck over with
Roman empire took centuries to collapse. British Empire never finished collapsing. It's slow. It's not a catastrophic marvel movie type event. It's boring. Nobody woke up in 1175 BCE and said wow I am living through the Bronze Age Collapse right now. It's a continuous and almost imperceptible decline in quality of life that is made all the more invisible by the fact that you age alongside it.
"What is this, some kind of Warring States Period?"