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It feels like the whole world's gone to hell. Late capitalism feeds widespread ecological collapse and resurgent fascism, and while there are alternatives, they feel like they're too far away to reach and that it's already too late to have any hope of fixing things. In the face of it all I just feel so fuckin' powerless, you know?
Nothing I can do on an individual level feels like it amounts to anything, and it is so, so tempting to just want to run off and disappear into the woods or something. Just give up on it all and look after only myself. But of course, that'd only be contributing to the problem, right? It would be abdicating any responsibility and turning my back on any chance of making real fucking change in the world.
And of course, while I'm wrestling with this, I'm going through all the motions of following the status quo: going to uni, finding a job, setting aside money for retirement (as if that'll ever fucking happen). It just feels like a sham, like I'm pretending that it's all okay, nothing's wrong, there's nothing to see here, even though the truth is the whole system is completely un-fucking-tenable.
Thanks for making this thread, I guess. It helped to be able to vent at least a little of this somewhere, even if it won't ever amount to anything. And who knows, maybe if we scream into the void enough times, the echoes will eventually reach each other and let us know that someone, somewhere out in the darkness, feels the same way.
I'm just so fuckin' tired.
