I’m very scared, it feels like the world is about to fall apart. I will also remember a passage that I heard, and which does not seem to be a joke: you will own nothing, and will be happy! And it seems that this is gradually becoming a reality.
What scares you?
Mostly I’m just really fucking sad.
There was such a potential for all of us to live brilliant, flourishing, fulfilling lives.
Instead, half the folks in my country decided to shit on everything and everyone. The remaining half of us are now too fucking busy cleaning up after those fuckwits to make forward progress. We can’t even advocate for changes to things we know are bad because we’re trying to defend the broken status quo from something worse.
It’s going to take generations to unfuck the damage. More than my lifetime, at least.
There was never that potential with 8 billion people.
Clearly humanity is never capable of improving anything on the grand scale.
No, there was. And there is. That’s the worst part.
We produce more food than we need. We produce more goods than we need. Starvation and poverty are both choices made by those in power to ensure their own power.
Same :(
The thing is, all of it, yes, all of it was and still is avoidable. We have the tools to unfuck the climate change, to get population levels under control, to distribute enough to those who need it.
We choose not to. Fucking hell.