Am I projecting? What do you think, fellow lemmings?
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I feel the same but if I look back, there are just as much problems as now. I think that is because the ‘now’ is always more intense than the past events. Just think about it, do you remember every sad day or fight that you had in the past? Hopefully not but you do remember it if it was in the last 7 days.
Some problems from the past are: The crime peak of the 90s. New York City had 2245 murders in 1990. Since 2012 it has not been over 500 per year.
Or take Gaza and Isreal. That region has been a war zone since forever but peaked in 2023,2024.
Or Ukraine. That has only been independent since 1991. Tension in eastern Europe is not new. What is new is that it has been stable for the last 30 years.
Fascism, wars, corruption, etc will come and go and will continue to do so.
liberal hegemony of the last several decades fraying. but the line must go up, of course.
Yeah, there’s a gas leak everywhere and where just realizing it.
People have been trying to ignore the world so they can get their high for the last several decades to the point where one the largest companies advertising on the internet is one where you pay people who label themselves as “councilors” with barely training to gaslight you hopefully to feel better and people know brand name drugs for helping them feel better and suggest them to others if you are wealthy enough. And been struggling to hold onto that sense of normalcy at all costs of the world.
And all of that avoidance meant jack-shit when the real world changed anyways and it didn’t just stay the same.
People likely feel lied to and that miserableness spreads like a virus of selfish people doing anything to prove themselves better than others at the cost of others.
Well humanity is dying a little bit due to climate change.
covid causes vascular damage
Not just you. Lots of negative feeling going around. If I could put a word to what I saw today, it would be “grim”.
A combination of both. More bad mood going around, impacting you and causing you to perceive things more negatively.
Just you. It’s easy to feel this way with depression honestly. I think it’s also what media you’re consuming.
Yeah, maybe time to go on a news diet. Just read my local paper online (one that’s reputable IMO) and then found something else to do. Not putting my head in the sand, just read the bad news once, processed it (or tried to), and then moved on to something else.
I would recommend you use an RSS reader and only curate exactly what you want. Can include news, YouTube, even lemmy.
Certainly a grim atmosphere across many social platforms. Mainly, the last few days from what I anecdotal experience.
Agreed. IRL things seem the same as always.
Now playing Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly The Same
The world may be ending, but I’ve still got work to do.
They may seem as such to you. They don’t feel that way to everyone
Always. I can only speak for myself and those I see around me.
For me, the grim outlook began when studios kept trying to cash in on the stories I loved, and continually ruined them. Games, TV, Movies. Enshittification started there, imo. It makes sense, really, for the product to be mediocre or even bad. And it makess sense why conservatives are so obsessed about efficiency. An efficiently made product is the worst possible version of the product that the market continues to accept.
conservatives are so obsessed about efficiency
They say they are, but their actions are the opposite.
I have such low standards for media these days that it doesn’t really phase me, and I get to be pleasantly surprised when something is good. I don’t really watch much TV outside of a few select shows that I throw on in the background, I’ve never been much of a gamer so I’m kinda glad I’m not really clued in to how bad it’s gotten, and with movies I’ll wait for a recommendation or just work through my server library of old and new. I think I’ve just kind of accepted media enshittification at this point and there’s already several lifetimes of great movies and books I’ve yet to experience that it’s no big loss, and anything truly awesome that comes along in the interim is a welcome light.
Everyone seems to be doomscrolling
You can find people in a good mood, but not on Lemmy :P
But what if I don’t want to go to a nazi rally?
Seems like mostly just people in the west because western world order is now visibly collapsing.
America is not the Western world.
It does, however, control a lot of the Western World’s media, and there’s a clear agenda to make people frightened.
It’s not just America. Look at the political climates in a lot of Europe, and there’s economic and housing crisis in much of the west, especially the anglosphere.
The EU countries had a chance to cleanly decouple from the USA and mostly continue being neocolonialist and subsidised in the same ways, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Probably could’ve corrected it with the correct diplomacy or just looking the other way. Now the integration with the USA has been strengthened and all the messaging needs to be slowly undone and pivoted if we don’t want to sink together. And even then no one will be able to trust us. Trust matters more for financial and service industries than it does for manufacturing economies.
Maybe USA in their stupidity will try to cut us loose, and we can be forced into a miraculous late pivot just in time. Israel’s genocide crusade was a perfect excuse to aggressively decouple, since by Oct 2023 it was obvious USA lost. But we didn’t take it, getting to be Nazi’s again was too nice a treat I guess. So it’s perfectly possible USA starts exploiting us worse, and we just decide to cope with a lowered vassal tier status rather than actually clawing back some sovereignty. And the obvious result of that of course is more allies and members will want their own sovereignty enforced, and will break with or be pushed out of the EU-unity, which will make the remaining partners even weaker.
The US is at the centre of western world order. The rest of the west is tied to the states ideologically, politically, economically, and militarily. The global hegemony that the US created in the 90s is now starting to unravel and that’s having a negative economic impact on all western countries. Europe in particular has been hit very hard. And hence we’re seeing political discontent running all across the west.
The vibes on RedNote aren’t so bad.
I’m in a good mood! :)
👍I envy you and applaud you at the same time (being serious here, not snarking).
Thank you. I found that if I don’t doomscroll and just look up subjects I like… Then easier to be on good mood.
If I may, Arts & Letters Daily has a lot of interesting links that generally aren’t too overly tied to current events, and can provide a nice break from the world as usual. Aeon is also good.
I’ll check that out. Thank you!!
