I try not to let this shit get to me. It's always darkest before the dawn and all that, but damn.
The general population is so fucking broken. They're just absolutely mind fucked from being raised on a steady diet of right-wing propaganda from all major Western parties.
How do you even begin to fix all of this. I feel like I'm drowning and being pushed under by my own damn species. We are all so sick.
I tried writing out a hopium reply, but then wandered away and kinda got into a doom spiral too about ecological destruction and shit and now I'm also
In any case, here's my current take on anti-doomerism
spoiler
https://www.yicaiglobal.com/opinion/mark.kruger/why-are-the-chinese-people-so-optimistic-
I'm optimistic because my Chinese comrades are optimistic. Things are worsening in the imperial core but its grip on the rest of the world is loosening as it lashes out and becoming more erratic. Have you seen Naussica?
spoiler for the end of the film, if you haven't seen jt I encourage you to watch it.
Empire overextends. The Fire Beast destroys itself in its own rage. The insects cleanse the Wastes and the earth is hostile to humans, but humans learn to adapt. Nausicaa as a character reminds me if what Nakoichi said here that humans have an obligation to unfuck what we've wrought.
I'd like to think that we can restore the earth once capitalism falls. Though it won't be us leading the charge.
Actually it's kicked off another depressing thought that ao much of the post apocalyptic media here presents the post human world as idyllic ipso facto, like that Wild Robot movie. Like the apocalypse will be harsh on 'deserving' humanity but kind on animals like Chernobyl or the DMZ. Fuck shit fuck ecofash ideology is being mainstreamed.
It sucks living in a vassal state of a dying empire. Aaaaahhhh incoherent comment sorry :(:( can't cheer myself or anyone else up :(:(:(
Sorry it's my fault. I shouldn't spread doomerism
Like you said, China is doing good things and there will always be people fighting to do the right thing
If it's any consolation, our being upset shows that we are righteously frustrated with the gross injustice and depravity of the empire. Hold onto that, because if we lose our disgust of it, we become libs.
I would rather live a life feeling disgust, than to be comfortable in a disgusting empire.
To try to be more bloomer, there are still good things in the world. People organizing, commiserating, and Hexbear just by itself! We are not the majority, but we are still many. We enjoy things like gardening, theory, art, expression, shitposting, and so much more. I daily mourn the sins of the empire that I cannot stop. I hate being afraid to do anything out of self-preservation. But I do not have to mourn alone, and I do not have to act alone.
We can take the years where weeks happen, and use them to prepare for the week where years happen. Bit by bit, from each according to their ability, to each according to their need. There's a lot of people in need, and like others here, I often have little ability. Still, trying with little effect is honorable over giving up. The same goes for resting, over giving up.
To paraphrase an attribution to Emma Goldman "If there won't be shitposting at the revolution, I'm not coming"