• Meowie Gamer@lemmy.world
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      also, take off those rose-tinted glasses. The world’s always been chaotic.

      I don’t like how things are right now, and yes I’d prefer to just go a few years back, but it’s not like the past is perfectly safe or anything.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.comOP
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        its not about safety. its about rate of change.

        humans in their present form have existing for over 100,000 years. to state that the rate of change between generations has always been the same is just incredibly wrong.

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    The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born
    Now is the time of getting off our asses and reading some books on how to be a midwife

    • prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee
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      Boomers will take the earth into the grave with them. If they can’t have it, noone shall.

  • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zip
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    What do you guys plan on doing the next few years? Im at a loss.

    I think my plan is to have consolidation of households in my family and try to survive.

    But I feel no motivation to be a participant in this American way of life. This grind. This game.

    We all can see what’s happening. This is the elites playing their deck in a class war. To make us feel pain again so we stop asking for more and get grateful for it. To bend the knee. To feel hunger and pain.

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      I don’t speak with my family. We’re looking to move friends into our house. Learning to garden. Getting everything ready.

      We lost the class war because they divided us. Women hate men. Red hates blue. Young hates old. Urban hates suburban. Everyone hates each other.

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    Somehow, after a century of “development” things are still ultimately the same here.

    … God damnit MBS i want fucking human rights and democracy not sportswashing.

  • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    wow this is an image… i don’t come from America and wasn’t around for the twin towers, but woah this gives me vibes… :o

    im vrri surprised i got a reaction out of that

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    Just was discussing this with a friend the other day. In school they taught us cursive, how to balance a checkbook, do math by hand since a calculator will rarely be around. How to develop film, going in person to ask for job applications to fill out. Using paper maps, writing physical letters and mailing them. Doing research in libraries and using encyclopedias. The Dewey Decimal System. Skiing in the snow, observing fireflies. Learning about checks and balances, democracy.

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    Gen-X here. We used to be called “slackers” because the world we were raised to survive in had crumbled under Reagan and Bush and we saw no point in joining the clearly pointless rat race. So, through tech, we started a world wide paradigm shift. We made our own new industry and we thrived…for a while. Now Tech is as corrupt and pointless as the shit form the early nineties was.

    The point is that the only way out of this hole is to burn the old ways down (again) and do something completely different (again).

    PS: We’ll have to lose the billionaire class, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

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    This is totally accurate if you live in the United States. They sun has set on the American experiment.

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      Realistically probably set getting on for 10 years ago, that’s probably when the process started.

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        I actually think it began in earnest the day those towers were hit. The response signaled the beginning of Americas decline, and the beginning of the long term plutocrat plan to loot the remains.

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          Yup, I don’t think the rest of the western world was too far behind either, if at all. With that said, 2001-2007 wasn’t bad.

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    And thank god! They raised me all wrong, I always had existential dread and anxiety from the start so I’m adapted better to this fresh hell than to the end of liberal history I was born into.