Asklemmy

Our wealth is taken, no one does anything.

Our health is taken, no one does anything.

Our privacy is taken, no one does anything.

Our voices are taken, no one does anything.

Our citizenships are taken, no one does anything.

The reason is apathy, which feeds inability, which feeds apathy, which feeds inability to do anything.

When our lives are taken, most people will be both ultimately unable and unwilling to do anything.

Even if people don't know it outright, they feel it.

More than this, we feel a disappointment and a shame in our bones that can't be shaken off because it is that outrageous and primal fear of losing anything more that drives our inaction, and so we feel ourselves to be cowards at our very core.

This is what grinds away at our souls daily.

When you eventually decide to do something, you will see you are no longer apathetic or unable. Your fears will begin to heal, and in this way it will save your soul. This is the power of courage. It is something you have to make for yourself, but hope is what drives it and hope is given.

I keep having this and similar conversations with my wife and my friends and family .....

The majority of the world has always been in a bad mood because 90% of planet has always been poor, struggling, doesn't have enough, live in poverty, are hungry and are generally not happy.

The only difference is that us in the rich west have been recently affected and are facing a near future where our comfort and freedoms are going to be affected. We are starting to feel what the rest of the world has been feeling for a long, long time.

I say all this from the perspective of an Indigenous Canadian because I grew up poor and in a circumstance where me and my family were always made to feel less than the rest of the Canada.

Climate change is getting worse and the world in general is sliding into fascism. The odds of things getting better in our lifetimes is very low. I'm only happy when I'm focusing on what's around me and not the big picture, because the big picture is bleak.

I've spent an astronomical amount of effort trying to remove as much depressing and outrage content from my feeds as possible. It's a sisyphian task with new things constantly slipping through the cracks. Which has made me mostly check out of all but a very small list of online spaces (and even then ads and other impossible to turn off 'recommendations' show up).

Outrage and depressing content fuels the web and it's best to recognize that. I've been a lot happier in my ignorance so far and would recommend it to anyone who's privileged enough to get away with it. It's not like being informed and engaged did fuck all for me in the last decade except give me a variety of mental issues.

Not just you. Lots of negative feeling going around. If I could put a word to what I saw today, it would be "grim".

We felt it last year. A building up of something. A sense of impending doom. Feelings of grim.

Things are worse especially with Trump making noises about using the American military to take resources. I don’t know who put the Panama canal and Greenland into his head but here we are. He is a guy who would do it too. Making us axis and not ally this go. That’s grim.

Pick and choose your outlets but don’t stick your head in the sand.

Rent is due in 11 days

Over 20 years ago I started to see the many problems with the world. Over the course of those ~20 years I saw more and more problems begin, none of them are ever resolved. There was a point where I believed I wouldn't live long enough to see the full ramifications, but now it seems like those problems are compounding faster and faster.

I dunno man, genocides and overtly fascist takeovers just have a shitty affect on the vibe.

All honesty, I tend to be optimistic to a fault and try really hard to be cheerful.

Everything starts to crack once socioeconomics comes up. The news lately is all about how everything is about to get worse. "This is collapsing, that's more expensive, getting a slice of diminishing wages is going to be even harder now! They're cracking down here and forcing ads there." Etc etc.

When I'm knee-deep in fixing up my servers or making art or being with my people, everything is just peachy!

But yeah, "How next money tho?" Usually starts the mental downward spiral.

I love living, can do a ton of things, love learning, but I don't get along with churning out a repetitive task for increasingly worthless currency.

The world outside of what I'm choosing to do feels entirely impossibly out of our control. So I try to balance being informed with staying sane.

Like damn I don't need much, can't folk just be left alone? Lol

Wonder if a lot of people feel like I do?

Not the whole world, but definitely the neoliberalized imperial core and its neocolonized vassal states.

This isn’t a case of viral, grassroots bad mood/fascist vibes. It’s the predictable result of grinding, late-stage/finance/monopoly capitalism, of zombie neoliberalism. Even the incorrigibly liberal Chris Hedges saw this coming fifteen years ago in his book, The Death of the Liberal Class.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. — Antonio Gramsci

I'm in a good mood! :)

I feel that too. Doesn’t seem like anything good is coming anytime soon, and it’s -25 with 150k winds outside where I live.

Well humanity is dying a little bit due to climate change.

I'm fine.

I'm just waiting to die at this point. Fuck this life. Fuck this world. I'd kill myself if I wasn't such a pussy. I keep living with the vague hope that things might get better, but deep down I already know it won't.

Just you. It’s easy to feel this way with depression honestly. I think it’s also what media you’re consuming.

Crabs in a bucket has collided with fuck around and find out about climate chamge. It only gets worse from here.

Everyone seems to be doomscrolling

You can find people in a good mood, but not on Lemmy :P

sound's like a western leftist problem for me

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