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What are your thoughts on the future?
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For the world things will get better, even if it is at the expense of a lot of innocent people...
For myself, I just hope my life isn't too long. I don't get why people are so positive about being alive and so negative when it comes to the end. :(
For myself, I just hope my life isn't too long. I don't get why people are so positive about being alive and so negative when it comes to the end. :(
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The future is nothing but misery and hopelessness to me.
We're watching fascism return to the world, as well as the destruction of our only habitable space while the people and entities with the real power to do something about it continue to (at best) drag their feet on the matter.
What's the most frustrating and despair-inducing thing about it all though is all the (usually well-meaning) people who fail to (or don't want to) understand and accept how bad things truly are and what it's really going to take to fucking fix things. It is bad enough that we're in the middle of a genocide against LGBTQ people. It is bad enough that racism is still rampant. It is bad enough that many people want to return to a time where a woman is nothing more than a man's personal servant and sex toy. It is bad enough that billions of people are at risk of starvation and homelessness while a tiny fraction of the population lives a life of luxury that they obtained via the exploitation of other people and/or being lucky. It is bad enough that healthcare is viewed as something for profit instead of a necessity and right. Yet people still want to believe that we can still change the world for the better by pointless debate with bad faith actors and fangless protests and meaningless elections. People still spout bullshit about how "everyone is entitled to their opinion", despite the fact that not all ideologies and viewpoints have merit and value--some are objectively harmful and need to be weeded out. People still view compromise as something to generally always strive for, never getting that sometimes compromise ends up being a (net) loss. The naïve optimism and pacifism so many have is fucking disgusting.
Maybe someday people will finally take up arms and meaningful action against the oppression we face and have long faced, but it will be too late. They will pat themselves on the back for defeating evil, never realizing that so much needless suffering and death could've been avoided had they acted sooner, and then will quickly go back to "normal", not trying to safeguard against what they fought against from happening again. History will repeat itself.
You sometimes see anti-abortion ass-hats ask pro-choice people "but would you be ok with being aborted!?", and personally yes, I would. I'd be better off if my mother aborted me.
We're watching fascism return to the world, as well as the destruction of our only habitable space while the people and entities with the real power to do something about it continue to (at best) drag their feet on the matter.
What's the most frustrating and despair-inducing thing about it all though is all the (usually well-meaning) people who fail to (or don't want to) understand and accept how bad things truly are and what it's really going to take to fucking fix things. It is bad enough that we're in the middle of a genocide against LGBTQ people. It is bad enough that racism is still rampant. It is bad enough that many people want to return to a time where a woman is nothing more than a man's personal servant and sex toy. It is bad enough that billions of people are at risk of starvation and homelessness while a tiny fraction of the population lives a life of luxury that they obtained via the exploitation of other people and/or being lucky. It is bad enough that healthcare is viewed as something for profit instead of a necessity and right. Yet people still want to believe that we can still change the world for the better by pointless debate with bad faith actors and fangless protests and meaningless elections. People still spout bullshit about how "everyone is entitled to their opinion", despite the fact that not all ideologies and viewpoints have merit and value--some are objectively harmful and need to be weeded out. People still view compromise as something to generally always strive for, never getting that sometimes compromise ends up being a (net) loss. The naïve optimism and pacifism so many have is fucking disgusting.
Maybe someday people will finally take up arms and meaningful action against the oppression we face and have long faced, but it will be too late. They will pat themselves on the back for defeating evil, never realizing that so much needless suffering and death could've been avoided had they acted sooner, and then will quickly go back to "normal", not trying to safeguard against what they fought against from happening again. History will repeat itself.
You sometimes see anti-abortion ass-hats ask pro-choice people "but would you be ok with being aborted!?", and personally yes, I would. I'd be better off if my mother aborted me.
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Personal: I've had some major, positive life changes lately that have changed my thinking and now I'm able to think of the future whereas before I only thought of the present. I'm now looking to getting my adult life into order for the very time. However, first comes some turbulent times as I learn to drive, move to a new state and decide what I'm really going to do for my career. Ultimately, I want to have a stable career, find a partner, have a child.
My Country (US): Not so optimistic about this. Our democracy has been destabilized and the right has been also moving the overton window further and further to the right. They were already and always have been too far right, now they're just... off the edge. Every single election feels like life or death for the country at this point, and it is also very impactful for my life. I'm surely going to have panic attacks leading up to the 2024 election. The 2024 election is literal life or death for the US and I suggest people not downplay this. If the right takes power, their major donors who have bought them out, have something called the "2025 project" which, if people don't know, is essentially a plan to turn us away from our government of checks and balances (which has already been compromised by the right in many ways) to an all-powerful executive branch. Similar to what has happened in Hungary or Russia.
This is dire. I didn't think my country could ever get to this point. It's so scary. I want to hope that we avoid this. That the right loses. But even if that happens, it doesn't change the fact that we are no longer a stable country, and the chances of violent uprisings by the right are very high. And every single election Democrats win, it merely pushes back the far right takeover, not ends it. There needs to be a major positive turn on the right to change this trend. The right wing media (and also right wing churches) desperately needs to moderate and stop pushing so much horrendous demonization of groups like trans people, conspiracies, lies about history, and all propaganda. Sadly, they make money doing what they do, and there's really nothing to stop them from continuing on their current trend. They are fermenting disaster. Still, I hope something changes. I want to stop having to live on the edge of my seat every single election.
The World: Even less optimistic. Because we have failed to handle climate change. I don't even know what to say at this point. I hope a change can still be made. But with the rise of fascism in so many industrialized nations the odds don't seem too great.
My Country (US): Not so optimistic about this. Our democracy has been destabilized and the right has been also moving the overton window further and further to the right. They were already and always have been too far right, now they're just... off the edge. Every single election feels like life or death for the country at this point, and it is also very impactful for my life. I'm surely going to have panic attacks leading up to the 2024 election. The 2024 election is literal life or death for the US and I suggest people not downplay this. If the right takes power, their major donors who have bought them out, have something called the "2025 project" which, if people don't know, is essentially a plan to turn us away from our government of checks and balances (which has already been compromised by the right in many ways) to an all-powerful executive branch. Similar to what has happened in Hungary or Russia.
This is dire. I didn't think my country could ever get to this point. It's so scary. I want to hope that we avoid this. That the right loses. But even if that happens, it doesn't change the fact that we are no longer a stable country, and the chances of violent uprisings by the right are very high. And every single election Democrats win, it merely pushes back the far right takeover, not ends it. There needs to be a major positive turn on the right to change this trend. The right wing media (and also right wing churches) desperately needs to moderate and stop pushing so much horrendous demonization of groups like trans people, conspiracies, lies about history, and all propaganda. Sadly, they make money doing what they do, and there's really nothing to stop them from continuing on their current trend. They are fermenting disaster. Still, I hope something changes. I want to stop having to live on the edge of my seat every single election.
The World: Even less optimistic. Because we have failed to handle climate change. I don't even know what to say at this point. I hope a change can still be made. But with the rise of fascism in so many industrialized nations the odds don't seem too great.
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I pretty much live from day to day and don't really stop to think about the future.