I feel like we’re living in a Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire song 2.0 (Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.
I was brought up by my parents who were both in WWII. I was told on the daily all about fascism until I was a teen. I saw countless media about the war that has not been seen since the 90’s.
I had first hand reports from my mom about when she was at the docks with the soldiers who had returned from Normandy. When she went to help them off the boat their skin would slide off. Who in the world wants fascism again. Sadly quit a few it seems. Most I do not think can comprehend what they are rooting for.
My brain is so fucked up right now. I feel like I am in a fever dream or I got zapped to a different world in the multiverse.
I mean this is the year I finally started looking into building a diy NAS, so much more preferable to study guides rather than open the news and witness the despair filled shitshow.
Yeah but I feel this way every year.
No.
The world is run by capitalism, and you have to remember that unhappy, anxious people spend more, while dead people don’t spend anything.
Turn off the news. Turn off the social media. Go for a walk. It’s nice outside. None of this shit has manifested there.
Well, unless you’re in America and you look vaguely foreign. Maybe don’t go for a walk in that case.
I don’t know if just choosing to ignore this all is the correct response. I mean, it’s not overencumbering, but it feels like it also is a way for capital to reign free.
Maybe I’m just reading badly into it.
The correct way to fight against capitalism is to get together with your neighbours and start building communities that aren’t reliant on the Big Market.
The idea that we all need to disconnect from reality to stay sane is absolutely making reality worse.
This advice is from Boomer generations that hope to coast by before the world they neglected is no longer livable, while newer generations are forcing themselves to engage with reality because society is quickly becoming unlivable.
We essentially have an oligarchy, or at least a growing list of authoritarian leaders. Kings in many ways except by name. Kings have been perfectly willing to destroy countries in furtherance of their egos, profits or other wellbeing of their citizens be damned.
3.0 will be done by the Fallout boys
My fav is the mailman ❤️
Honestly? I think if you had access to social media for any time in the last 100 years you would feel overwhelmed. The nature of the beast is there is ALWAYS something happening. There’s ALWAYS something to be angry about.
I feel overwhelmed by how the world apparently went today
Hoping to get into numismatics professionally. That or teaching. My SO is a teacher and there’s a shortage hereabouts, has been for years.
All i know is i didn’t start this fire
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Nope.
There’s nothing I can do to change it apart from trying to do good in my own little neighborhood, so that’s what I do.
It’s not about how we feel but what we do about it
I feel like we’re living in a [Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire]
I don’t understand why you’d say this. The US 100% did start all these fires. Not only did they start them, they keep adding wood to the fire. It’s so blatant even a blind person could see.
Billy Joel has great song and I appreciate him as an artist, but I’ll he damned if he isn’t an imperialist justifier.
Is that how the song should be taken?
I always understood it as him or the speaker singing the lyrics as if the audience was innocent in the events, and the leaders /villains/whoever are not “us” and they did it.
More specifically, singing as the younger generation about trying to live in the world their parents and grandparents seem intent on burning to the ground. And that’s not just my perception. You can hear him tell it in his own words (starting at 1:52).
America invading the Middle East and Israel committing genocide has been the staple my entire life.
World’s going to shit due to climate inaction.
The only change here is Russia and Ukraine, and that’s been ongoing for years now.
I don’t feel overwhelmed, this all feels normal to me.
The only change here is Russia and Ukraine, and that’s been ongoing for years now.
I dunno, the Russian invasion of Georgia was in 2008 (Russia has actually been involved with warfare on Georgia going back to 1993). They haven’t always aimed at the exact same areas and while they didn’t invade Belarus, they seem to have a good relationship with the country in a vassal state type of way. It certainly seems that Russia has been trying to regain lost territory for most of the same time period as the wars in the middle east.
A lot of people also don’t seem to remember the whole reason that the USA originally sided with and funded bin Laden and his Mujahideen was to kick Russia out of Afghanistan. It’s part of what eventually bred bin Laden’s distrust and hatred of the US for essentially being used as a tool and then thrown away.
