I think one of the biggest issues is that nothing is real anymore. 90% of what 90% of us do is utterly meaningless. For the average person, life is entirely solved. Our problems are mostly by choice, be it ours or someone else’s. The only real things in our lives are tragedies that we’d never have been able to prevent or resolve anyway.
An apocalypse is enticing because then our actions would have direct consequences. Right now, the consequences of our actions are filtered and diffused through a trillion layers of bullshit where the positive and negative effects are basically invisible unless you make a ridiculous amount of money very quickly, or like, kill someone with your car.
“We’ve reached a point where Americans would rather the world fall apart than get off their cowardly asses and do something.”
It’s always the same
The fact that plenty of them, most famously that poster-boy for 'Murican shit Henry Ford was a huge fan of Hitler and his bullshit gets glossed over
They sat out the war until they were pushed
And it will happen again and again, even when the problem is in their own house
Watch for when Zombie/apocalypse movies start getting popular again.
It’s absolutely a sign of mass despair at “the system”.
Zombies make everyone equal again. The executive actually becomes dead weight compared to folks who have spent their lives doing physical or practical labour.
How is this a shitpost? maybe lemmy depression ?
I had a serious injury that meant staying in bed most of the day for a couple of years. It sucked hard, and I did none of my hobbies, just watched all of Netflix.
I’m mostly better now and am able to go to my job which also sucks.
This is literally the plot of zom100
It’s easier to imagine a convenient bad thing happening than a good thing happening, I guess?
I think it’s simply that modern life is too far removed from what our instincts evolved to handle… A shitty life or death situation is something we’re more equipped to handle (at least in our imagination) than societal problems so big that are effectively impossible for us to influence.
I guess a possible part of the solution could be breaking these problems down into manageable chunks?
“Think globally, act locally”, as they say… and “locally” doesn’t have to be a physical locale. It can be a fedi instance or a niche group of some kind.
Sure, we do all sorts of things to function in modern society, doesn’t necessarily make it easy, or make escapism less attractive
Being hit by a motor vehicle of some sort owned by a large company with deep pockets and suffering a horrific but ultimately temporary injury with absolutely no longer-term health effects that nonetheless results in a seven figure injury settlement
Damn, and here I was thinking more like just slipping on a puddle in a store.
The settlement isn’t gonna be as good if it doesn’t impact your lifetime earnings. I have a family member that litigates this shit 🤮
Yeah that’s why it’s a dream
The New American Dream
Isn’t this just winning the lottery with extra painful steps?
Yeah but instead of the state paying you, you get to increase a big company’s insurance premiums for a while
Rip king
We’ve hit the point where people find the end of the world is more likely than the end of capitalism
Capitalism only stops when it runs out of fuel.
in a very interesting book i read a good long time ago called “the culture of narcissism”, this is known as as Primary Narcissism. it is the most common form of human narcissism which is basically the desire to return to the womb.
Covid time was personally great for me. Vietnam locked things down. We had food delivered. We didn’t get sick. At home with the wife and kid. Watching movies and tv. Playing games. Making the second kid. I worked from home for something like 6 to 9 months because my office is in a neighboring province and VN didn’t allow travel between provinces until a later relaxing of restrictions after vaccines became available.
I loved Covid, like not the disease or people dying. But the rise in WFH. My company finally wants to cease all WFH and it fucking sucks. I’m ready for another pandemic.
I can’t really do offices, I burn out way too fast. It’s not my kind of environment. Covid let me be a functional member of society, it gave me a taste of normalcy. Now all that is being taken away because middle-management needs to justify expensive offices. Offices that also drive up property costs so no one can afford homes.
Yay~!
I’m at work and this hit me like a freight train. and I like my work.
I feel like getting hit by a freight train would be a little too far, but like … at least my kids would get enough money to be OK?
Insurance would rule it suicide and not pay out.
I was more talking about the emotional freight train :D
Oh fuck, that’s real.
no, it’s imaginary, but that doesn’t make it any less important
I’ll be over here, worrying about the emotional freight train literally coming for me in my sleep or something
Lemmyrealpost
Me in France right now.
Do we have a c/lemmyirl?
There is a c/me_irl on both .world and .ml.
Thank you!
