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To add on and further clarify, I'm not saying to abandon all hope. I am saying that hard times usually get worse before they get better, and those hard times are also subjective.
For example: Certain countries had a few months of hard times, and now they don't have much covid to deal with. Their vaccines will be administered on time. They will be happy faster.
For the rest of the world, covid 19 will become an endemic, like the flu. We will accept the circumstance that yet another deadly virus is somewhat common. Life will resume its normal pace. Hard times pushed to the background of our minds, to focus on more "current" threats. Another easy excuse to blame all of our anxiety on.
And the world weakens a bit more. Zen nihilism will become a "life hack" in a few years. Ideologies will become less and less desirable, as people drift away from what usually makes them comfortable. Empathy, too tiresome to enact in practice.
It's not that we lost our way of life, it's that we are going to willingly walk away from it, and focus on different things. Hopefully, this change might bring about an intellectual renaissance. More likely, we'll get dumber and fatter, and the lobbyists are going to take the farm.
Through all of this hellish life, you can either accept it and take it like a tough, seasoned human being, or you can deny reality until the moment your lifestyle inevitably takes your life. This is the only real choice we have as human beings anymore: Whether we embrace the hardship ahead, or fight with it ceaselessly.
Life is pain and hell, but we can laugh at it if we want to.
