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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm gonna be honest, I'm a zoomer (ahhh yes I'm a zoomer, I'm a zoomer, yippee! Everyone look at me, I'm the zoomer) and, looking towards the future, my future, I'm already kinda there. I just think we both haven't quite hit the critical mass where everyone else is at that point, yet, and I think that the narrative about, you know, why things suck, I think that's been co-opted with a mixed level of success, forcing people to feel "fine" with their circumstances, or, forcing people to feel personally responsible for their circumstances, as the case may be. I also think there's a good amount of cynicism about standing up to the US government and institutions, since we've been fed a shitload of stuff against that, and then, you know, we're all fucked and have limited resources and whatever. I also think people are probably too nice for their own good, most people just kind of want to chill, even if that means they're actually not allowed to chill because they have to work 2 jobs and have no energy and one financial emergency could wipe them out instantly.

I dunno, I feel pretty cynical, but I also feel like things will probably get at least a little bit worse, before they get better. I just hope they get worse in the right way, instead of in the whole like, world ending kind of way. Or, localized apocalypse, kind of way, more likely.