and the adhd goblins are also there in the background

Do they both come inside or do they also have ED from depression?

one has anxiety as well

I dunno, I hear stories from my coworkers about how bad East Germany and other former Soviet states were in the 80s/90s. It depends a lot on where you were fortunate enough to grow up.

Also ignorance is bliss and as kids we didn't give a shit about politics. But in this instance things were 100% better no doubt.

Idk, I wanted to kill myself as a kid and don't now. So personally, the world seems pretty okay to me.

I dunno man, there was an atomic cloud over Europe from a reactor meltdown which meant we couldn't go outside when I was a kid.

Everything is a distraction from the feedback loops

Anti-intellectualism is causing both

Sometimes you can be a little self-centered. While climate change is overwhelming, a huge catastrophe for society and humanity’s future, how much will it directly affect you? Most of us will really only see more of the same: more severe and unstable weather, modified seasons, times where food and power are more expensive. You can handle that.

Sometimes it’s ok not to think too much about the statistics telling the bigger story or the news detailing the more extreme effects. As long as you know they exist

What can you do about the things that directly affect you? What can you do about the things in your control?

This isnt entirely accurate because there's no wave for nuclear annihilation

Right, and this is just one of those times where the scab was itchy so we scratched it off. We re-opened the gouge and are bleeding again. The question is whether the healing is still happening, with a little backtracking, or whether we’re exposing ourselves to gangrene

This was beautifully stated. Thank you for your wholesome response, VampirePenguin.

Okay but if it could move in vaguely the same direction as me that would be great.

I genuinely believe there is 0 chance we will ever heal the earth. Collapse of Earths natural systems seem inevitable.

I had ten years more WW3 is about to happen at any time than you did. We saw Northern Ireland become a peaceful place after such a long time like a war zone, the Middle East calmed down after always being a warzone somewhere or other. We watched the Berlin Wall come down in ’89 with such optimism, the USSR broke up peacefully and Europe started to be a more interesting place, now these borders with Russia are bloody dangerous. Somehow there’s a new and improved ‘Cold War’ that isn’t actually a secret at all, a real war hiding behind words like conflict, the holy lands are all to hell again, my god we are useless at this peace thing - the rich twats just can’t make enough money unless we’re all suffering obviously.

Gandalf's line is probably my favorite from the book. You can only control what you can control. Do what you can, and know at the end of the day that you did your best, regardless of the outcome.

I wouldn't have had to worry about that anyway.

I would be considered 4F

I don't have to worry about being drafted, I'm officially morally unqualified to serve in my nation's armed forces!

Oh man I'd prefer to not compare myself or my problems to active war zones. Lifes rough no matter the place but I have plenty of opportunity to make good on it. That may or may not be the case for folks in Ukraine or Iran... and then I think of Pakistan....fuck

Edit: fat finger spelling

Like I said, I'm improving. It's the world falling apart around me that's making me feel it's a bit superfluous to be achieving mental stability at this point in life.

Some of the world is improving. Some has been regressing. The last 30 years weren't a very stable time, and even the accounts of what is happening is not reliable. Not acknowledging that has been incredibly harmful for everybody.

Anyway, yes, improve your life and the society around you. It's what you can do.

Thanks for the attempt, but all I see are “the 17 sustainable development goals” where the Trump administration wants to take us backwards

Hopefully I’m just being us-centric and I understand our current issues may be partly obscured by long term trends and global statistics. However we also have an outsized effect on the world and those are some of the first places cut or corrupted, changed from achievements to points of instigation

Idk, my life is pretty fuckin great right now.

I agree, but people dont like to hear that.

There is always the possibility that we are wrong also.

Correct. And I weep about it almost every day. One, because I miss it (and my youth), and two, because I look at kids today and it can't be fun.

That's not mutually exclusive with frustration at the world falling apart around us.

This is unhelpful.

Well, that was more bleak and depressing than the post.

Also, hard disagree. Not everything is lost.