I genuinely had this realization today, a few hours ago.
I was like... Shit just keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse, and fucking worse.
So in a couple of years, as shit as I feel about shit right now, I'm gonna look back at this moment all nostalgic like.
So every moment we are alive it's the worst moment to be alive? Whoa.
Some real Peter Gibbons energy.
Homer Simpson energy, as well. "The worst day of your life so far."
Im just going to post this again for no reason
this is some high quality doomerism
Hard not to be a bit of a doomer these days
I feel like our whole lives here in the US we've been told to expect things to just generally keep getting better, seemingly forever. Like, that's the narrative of "progress." The economy just keeps growing, the nation just keeps getting richer, technology just keeps getting better, living standards just keep getting better, so forth and so on. But, that was probably never realistic, or even feasible. I mean, no civilization progresses forever. Essentially every civilization that's ever existed has followed a pattern of ascension followed by decline. Many of the most notable civilizations ascended very quickly and dramatically, and then collapsed just as quickly and dramatically. Why should we expect to be any different? What makes us think we won't follow the same pattern as basically every other civilization in history?
It would've continued if we'd left competent people in charge instead of handing the keys over to the absolute WORST people in the world. Now we're about to lose:
...all thanks to the shittiest people you've ever met, and all because enough people got convinced that we SHOULDN'T murder them before their cancerous bullshit metastasized into society.
Humanity would be doing GREAT if not for the humans.
It would've continued if we'd left competent people in charge instead of handing the keys over to the absolute WORST people in the world.
Except it's the "competent" people who paved the way for this mess. You don't get a Trump without generations of Bidens, Obamas and Reagans. The rot that led to MAGA isn't something that could've just not happened; it needed to be actively avoided years if not decades in advance. Besides, things were getting worse even before Trump so what?
nah. it's Marketing
Every individual civilization has followed that pattern with a few exceptions. Overall, however the previous view is correct historically speaking. As a species things do just keep getting better for us, except in periods of systemic transition.
Meanwhile, my whole life, things have either gotten worse or stagnated.
Change is the only constant. One chapter ends, another begins.
Have you ever considered that trans people are the reason that we don't keep progressing forever? /s
Quality shitpost.
It’s also a repost with slightly edited bottom text. I’m confident I first saw this meme around 2016. Sad that it’s still relevant
Like when I’m dying of radiation poisoning, and no one can help me because everyone is dying of radiation poisoning.
Every day is better than the next!
True. It was 80 today and it’ll be in the 30s the rest of the week.
Life really is suffering.
I hope the cold snap kills all those mother fucking mosquitoes that just came out.
Nah, they’ll survive. It’ll just kill all the buds on your trees and your bulbs that were duped into poking up.
Orc catches a drone 30 seconds later.
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Can I take a moment and speak to the appropriateness of where all ruling powers around the world have led us to:
Malallocation Noun. The act or an instance of malallocating something. If misallocating is poor or improper allocation, malallocation is a more extreme form of the same principle, except instead of varying degrees of being suboptimal, it is directly harmful in important ways to the host.
Humanity has some really big fucking fish to fry at the moment. It looks like we are choosing going full psycho, so at the moment when the world needed to push past industrialization into something more sustainable, we chose billionaire fantasy levels3 of egregious malallocation. All that absolutely neccessary global military buildup is malallocating funds from our transition from a perpetual growth plague species, to a sustainable member of a natural complex system, keeping the system viable indefinitely. Like on the level of answering the Fermi Paradox. Can the species be smart enough to overcome the growth paradigm, before succumbing to the environmental deterioration of a species intelligent enough to remove a great many limits to growth, but not yet smart enough to not do so, deliberately, because of an understanding of scale and long term consequences. I'd even settle for a little pre-caution. But no, short term benefits are indeed enormous so humanity continues to make terrible decisions that lock in horrific consequences for us all, forever. Like climate change, but not just that.
I genuinely believe we won't make it the transition. The irony is that we could, but only with real meritocratic win-win capable management, not the psychopaths in charge now. Guys like Bannon think they are architects of surviving empires making it through the transition. Alien archeologists will hear of the god of death who brought the end of global cooperation just when humanity needed it most. It's the ONLY way to deal with global problems.
The irony is these people are the very forces they fear the most. It's how you get into an AI cold war as birth rates plummet while building billionaire bunkers. Terminal short termism. We're all moving in the wrong direction in an existential issue, very fast now. This has consequences. Severe consequences.
Malallocation.
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It's all shit.
This version is objectively worse than the original. Shitpost, indeed.
Everything is okay until it isn't.
So. What if I do have money right now. Not much but enough to say I'm not worried just yet.
What is a wise decision to make with this money? Knowing shit will get worse?
I know this is a shit post but it really gets me thinking what to do next?
In a bit of a similar situation, my do as I say not as I've done would be to try to find a mutual aid group and/or begin exploring disaster preparedness and recovery learning and prepping.
Well, since this is a russian soldier, their life getting worse is a good thing.
In my opinion the soldier is only partially to blame for Putins war.
Imagine there is a war and nobody is going...
A soldier decides on his own to go / fight
I believe that's known as a mass shooting.
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