tl;dr: If you are in the privileged class then you will be fine and nothing matters.
You should buy a useful gun; no need to blow money just to blow money.
Sounds a lot like Children of Men. Life looks normal-ish on the surface but in the background there's people in cages, the news is an endless parade of horrors, and your favorite coffee shop gets bombed.
That coffee shop bombing scene has always stayed with me. Literally cause of how shocked and dazed he is walking away and kind of just shakes it off.
Reminds of a friend of mine who was in the Army in Iraq. Said he would have mortars hitting all around him and he would walk around like it was nothing. Then after the fact had a break down cause he realized that he could have just been blown to bits at any moment.
I lived in Sri Lanka during the civil war. Most days, you just go to school and ignore the news.
Apparently my medium "quota" is used.
Archive link: https://archive.vn/ntjEw
Looked through that person's writing a bit, thought this one was also pretty good
https://medium.com/indica/americas-a-shithole-now-here-s-some-advice-3aee776e8575
I've said something along these lines for years. The world ends all the time, but usually its isolated to a town or a family. The world ended for people in Flint, MI years and years ago.
I was looking through some old photos for this article and the mix is shocking to me now. Almost offensive. There’s a burnt body in front of my office. Then I’m playing Scrabble with friends. There’s bomb smoke rising in front of the mall. Then I’m at a concert. There’s a long line for gas. Then I’m at a nightclub. This is all within two weeks.
Today I’m like, ‘did we live like this?’ But we did. I mean, I did. Was I a rich Colombo fuckboi while poorer people died? Well, yes. I wrote about it, but who cares.
Stopped reading right there. No, really, fuck that.
Maybe I read it wrong, but the writer doesn't appear to be highlighting that as a good, or even acceptable thing. They seem to be drawing a comparison to those Americans who are blissfully unaware of the suffering that's happening around them:
Today I assume you went to work. Bad news was everywhere, clogging up your social media, your conversations. Maybe it struck close to you. I’m sorry. Somewhere in your country, a thousand people died. I’m sorry for each of them. A thousand families are grieving tonight. A thousand more join them every day. The pain doesn’t go away, it just becomes a furniture of bones, in a thousand thousand homes.
As a nation you don’t seem to mourn your dead, but their families do. Their communities do. Jesus, also, weeps. But for most people it’s just another day. You’ve run out of coffee. There’s a funny meme. This can’t be collapse, because nothing’s collapsing for me.
I can definitely see how it might off as offensive, though.
