I was led to believe by all the TV sitcoms of the 80s that I'd wake up one day in my 40s, everything would feel totally different, and then I'd take long walks and be thoughtful about stuff, buy an overpriced motorcycle and dye my hair badly. I'm solidly into my 40s and I just worry about climate collapse, becoming homeless, and my partner's health. I honestly wish that becoming less attractive was something worth worrying about.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Sorry, you don't get one. "Midlife Crisis" was an imperial core suburbanite WASP reactionary phenomenon at the height of nihilistic easy living afforded by imperialism and unequal exchange. The lack of real problems like being colonized, imprisoned, or slaughtered by imperialists gave imperial core grill dads surplus leisure time to have existential anxiety about getting older. Now you get to have a never ending life crisis instead as your standard of living rapidly declines from the dedollarization and the rise of the global south. Your bosses will pay you less and less while your currency inflates more and more until the imperial core balkanizes and becomes a collection of outposts for a new imperial core (or, if we're lucky, China presses the Socialism button in 2050 like they say).