I can already hear it. I know, I know, doomerism has been weaponized in order to keep the working class undereducated, depressed, drugged up, inert, or dead, and I’m falling for bourgeois tactics.
At the same time, though, I look around (even from a privileged, western perspective) and see things getting worse and worse, daily. My life and country have both begun to collapse.
I’m pretty white-pilled when it comes to the human race on the whole, especially with China as the rising superpower, but Jesus. Global economy in shambles, political and civil unrest, and the worst existential threat in human history in climate change all at the same time.
What are the next 20 years going to bring?
I’m scared, and I have a really bad feeling about all of this.
This is a gorgeous response and I agree with everything in it.
My only question/concern is climate change. Yes, the problems we are facing in the west aren’t new or novel issues. Except climate change. The problems we are facing have been fixed and dealt with before successfully, except climate change. The problems we are facing also aren’t, in my opinion, as threatening to everything as climate change.
Is it not true that we’ve crossed a point of no return? Is it not true that it’s highly unlikely - unreasonable even - to assume we can pull ourselves out of this in time? I mean, global revolution would be required (or at LEAST the imperial core/industrialized big polluters) to cease such massive amounts of pollution to make a difference.
Again, I don’t know much about, well, anything, so I’m just asking.
Of course it’s always good to try and keep hope, but what are the actual logistical chances of success?
Are we fucked?