Nope, I can assure you that 90% of my problems would be fixed if I could afford to live

I mean, the planet is dying, the nazis are back, and we’re being greed-flation’d into completely unnecessary poverty…

So yeah, there’s more to it than price tags, but of the things that make this reality a dumpster fire, cost of living is one of the hardest hitters we might have some shred of hope of alleviating in our lifetime… so… can we build some fucking guillotines, already?!

I’m 30 and don’t feel like a have a future in the way that other generations before me had. Can’t even imagine how those younger than me must be feeling. I at least got to fuck around a bit in my early youth as you could still afford to then. I grew up knowing climate change was coming, but it wasn’t until my mid 20s when I started to lose hope in our ability to address it. Still got a good 25 years of feeling hopeful though. Kids these days get none of that.

Wealth inequality, out-of-control prices, climate chaos, political extremism, and nothing is being done to fix any of it. There’s no one at the wheel and we’re headed for a cliff.

I imagine what will happen that will “snap” the world into some sort of action is a huge environmental disaster that damages a shit-ton of property, an environmental 9/11 moment. A major city will get permanently flooded and have to get abandoned, to which people will be like, “How could this have happened?” Bitch, scientists have been warning us for decades, we’ve been sleepwalking into this for ages. At that point, maybe we’ll get serious about it, but by that point it may already be too late.

Economists, the priests of the state religion of Capitalism, cannot understand why the laypersons aren’t rejoicing over record profits for the Eternal and Unaging Corporations.

Look, everyone knows that the climate is fucked. It would take a big all in push to fix it. We haven’t even started. And, having just tried to get our act together to drive a new emerging disease into extinction, something that should have been relatively easy, we failed and devolved into such fractious infighting over that simple thing that no one even wants to outright acknowledge how fucked we are.

So, yeah. You could say there’s a bit of an unshakable gloom, if that’s what you’re into.

One major societal problem we need to fix in America is our neighbors who are literally insane and not living in reality. They have gone beyond politics at this point, and have become Qanon cult wackos with mental disorders. They can’t answer basic questions that orient them to time and place, like who is the president, and what year it is. They think Trump is the “shadow” president and that history/reality is fake, and that the United States is a corporation because Republican lies incorporate all these fake lies into one big mish mash. And when that breaks through for them every once in a while and they’re forced to accept reality (see: dying from Covid) they become dangerous to others in the real world.

You can’t have such a large % of people believing that Reptilian Jews are eating the blood of babies to remain younger, and that ALL of them are Democrats. Never mind how their minds dodge the fact that the majority of Republican politicians are the sex offenders. They have even more insane beliefs than that I’ve seen that it looks like schizophrenia.

I really want health professionals to step in here because most of us don’t have the expertise to deal with something so bad in our friends and neighbors.

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Is someone going to pitch a Jimmy Carter malaise speech to Biden?

Then all we need is for OPEC to do an oil price hike and someone to take some hostages and negotiate with the Republican candidate’s campaign to release them AFTER the election and we can have the 80s all over again.

The vibes are fucked. You can’t fix that without something big.

tl;dr: Because most of us know that we’re fucked and there’s little to nothing we can do about it.

This world that we made fucking sucks for everyone but the ones with a shit load of money, we extracted the magic to transform it into profit. Fuck this place.

I never knew you could clam bake with an umbrella!