Being hit by a motor vehicle of some sort owned by a large company with deep pockets and suffering a horrific but ultimately temporary injury with absolutely no longer-term health effects that nonetheless results in a seven figure injury settlement
I hate to admit it but I’d love to go back to Covid times where I was forced to stay in my house and never leave. I don’t want people dying but I’m so fucking tired.
It wasn't any different for me. I was one of those so-called "essential workers". I still had to go to work. When I wasn't at work, I stayed home and layed in bed and played games. People talked about isolation and loneliness and I was just thinking " First time, is it?".
I honestly loved covid. Am I crazy? I got to stay in with my girl, be comfy, work from home, then watch movies and play video games, all with zero fomo.
Great for me; I'm "neurodivergent" anyway. Perish the thought of being forced to deal with sociopaths and other stressed-out employees I'd need to work with all day, every day until you die? Now that's my idea of going crazy!...
Covid time was personally great for me. Vietnam locked things down. We had food delivered. We didn't get sick. At home with the wife and kid. Watching movies and tv. Playing games. Making the second kid. I worked from home for something like 6 to 9 months because my office is in a neighboring province and VN didn't allow travel between provinces until a later relaxing of restrictions after vaccines became available.
I loved Covid, like not the disease or people dying. But the rise in WFH. My company finally wants to cease all WFH and it fucking sucks. I'm ready for another pandemic.
I can't really do offices, I burn out way too fast. It's not my kind of environment. Covid let me be a functional member of society, it gave me a taste of normalcy. Now all that is being taken away because middle-management needs to justify expensive offices. Offices that also drive up property costs so no one can afford homes.
This is the premise of Zom100: Bucket list of the Dead, the main character's job is so shitty, he considers the zombie apocalypse to be a massive improvement over having to go to work and just starts living his best life and doing all the things he never had time for.
I love Haro Aso so much, dude. Alice in Borderlands is just such a beautiful metaphor, I'll never get over it. This has been on my list for a while, I think Im gonna have to read it now.
My therapist told me that, in fact, it's not normal to wish to be hit by a bus on the way to work every morning just so you could escape from going to work.
Watch for when Zombie/apocalypse movies start getting popular again.
It's absolutely a sign of mass despair at "the system".
Zombies make everyone equal again. The executive actually becomes dead weight compared to folks who have spent their lives doing physical or practical labour.
I think one of the biggest issues is that nothing is real anymore. 90% of what 90% of us do is utterly meaningless. For the average person, life is entirely solved. Our problems are mostly by choice, be it ours or someone else's. The only real things in our lives are tragedies that we'd never have been able to prevent or resolve anyway.
An apocalypse is enticing because then our actions would have direct consequences. Right now, the consequences of our actions are filtered and diffused through a trillion layers of bullshit where the positive and negative effects are basically invisible unless you make a ridiculous amount of money very quickly, or like, kill someone with your car.
I was almost not at all affected day to day by COVID, I just went to work still because it's isolated, no mask etc even needed.
But it was soooo much better with less traffic and less people at the stores. Even just, the "one way Aisles" at the stores were so much better. You go in, everything flows so much smoother.
What's struck me is how in America, the reality is the opposite of those fantasies. What's that? The nation's capital is being stormed by fascists attempting to kidnap lawmakers and overthrow the electoral process? And I'm still expected to just work like it's just a normal day??
No joke this is me. I had a major surgical procedure a decade ago. It was a 3 day hospital stay to recover. It's one of the most relaxing, peaceful times of my life, even with all the pain and nurses checking on me. I remember it very fondly.
I had major surgery last year. I was out of work for 2 months. It was the greatest decompression break from work ever, except I went back a week early and before I was really physically ready because I was only getting about 1/4 of my normal paycheck from disability and I was super broke (luckily I had managed to save up enough to pay my rent in advance). I read lots of books and stayed up all night playing video games and looking outside at the night sky.
It really sucked in other ways. I had 2 entire months where I only spoke to another human maybe 5-6 times and most of those were a coworker who knew I was lonely and would call me during downtime on their shift to check in and see how my recovery was going. It really highlighted how alone and invisible I am in this world and there's nothing quite so sad as being like well my surgeon says I can't lift any weight but I have to get groceries into my apartment somehow and take my trash across the complex to the cans and I have literally no one to ask to do that so I guess I'll just pray I don't rip open all my incisions and eviscerate myself.
Can confirm. This is me. Especially after the last two years. Everything just feels so hopeless, and I'm expected to spend most of my waking hours feeding a system that gleefully kicks us in the teeth every single day.
Most likely a bunch of stupid, selfish, assholes will co-opt whatever rises out of that and things will get just as bad only with worse infrastructure this time.
i have always attributed this feeling to the fact we live in a system where our contributions dont really matter, as in that we only work for a number to go up, and not because its actually needed (with few exceptions)
i think our society is making us work in a similar way that a bodybuilder works out: it's just about making [these muscles / that business] grow, even though they serve no purpose and could just as well just not exist, and things would be equally fine, but for whatever reason, we've made it a beauty ideal that these things are as big as possible, so we must max them! every! single! day!
Also because people come together during major crises.
And unfortunately, it does not look like we'll be able to get rid of capitalism (and more importantly capitalists) without either a mass uprising or a devastating catastrophe (like total ecological collapse).
Currently we're about to reach the latter, which I don't think is preferable, but perhaps it'll turn out well in the end. I sure hope so.
Also because people come together during major crises.
Since COVID I no longer believe this. Where I live, people immediately started hoarding essentials, threw low-paid retail workers under the bus, refused to follow even the most basic precautions to keep others safe (and had full-blow childish meltdowns and screamed in the faces of anyone who tried to ask them to comply), overwhelmed the healthcare system unnecessarily, burned down cell phone towers etc. Just a complete orgy of idiotic fuckery right from the start.
Where I come from originally is kind of a remote place, that relies on tourism. We already have a huge problem with everyone buying their second holiday homes there and pricing the locals out of buying homes (which is a big part of why I moved.) Anyway, during COVID, because it's remote and sparsely populated, it had one of the lowest COVID rates in the country. As soon as the travel restrictions lifted, everyone descended on the place. There were mayors of towns on TV begging people not to come. But they came anyway, wrecked the place and left garbage everywhere, caused a huge COVID spike (in an area that has one hospital and a lot of elderly people), and when people complained about it we were told we should be grateful that the tourists are there spending money.
Luckily my family that still lives there were okay (you get good at not being where the tourists are after a while) but still. It's an area that's perpetually underfunded and neglected, and when it was at it's most vulnerable and just needed people to be just a tiny bit considerate for a moment, they trashed the place, used us as their disposable COVID bunker and then made fun of us for being unhappy about it, not to mention putting my family directly in harm's way.
The world seems to have largely moved on from that whole time now, but I will not forget this.
I really hoped that the recent plague would bring people together/weed out the bad apples, but the terrible people only got stronger/more insane and everyone else was forced apart.
That's why I never really fell into religion. Like 10 times in recent history, the apocalypse or rapture was supposed to happen; people were clapping their hands for Jesus' return, thinking they'd be chosen to ascend or go wherever. For how long exactly? Have they always been like this? I can't help but stand there wondering if those people aren't wrapped too tight and loose with reality; they kind of worry me. It's like they actually want the world to end every waking day, and they believe it.
Yes but somehow I would guess people in war zones, say for example in Ukraine, somehow wish for this boring normality we seem to be tired of. I try to think of that every time i seem too tired of the grind. Though in some way, I think everybody matters more in a war than in a peaceful economy
The ol' grass is greener on the other side paradox. I get it though, I sometimes catch myself thinking it. I don't even hate my job, it's just exhausting for reasons I'm working to resolve.
I think it's simply that modern life is too far removed from what our instincts evolved to handle... A shitty life or death situation is something we're more equipped to handle (at least in our imagination) than societal problems so big that are effectively impossible for us to influence.
I guess a possible part of the solution could be breaking these problems down into manageable chunks?
"Think globally, act locally", as they say... and "locally" doesn't have to be a physical locale. It can be a fedi instance or a niche group of some kind.
I'm knocking on the door of 60 but this has always been an idle daydream of mine.
As I've got older I've come to realise a. that I'm no longer young enough to be the heroic, plucky survivor of my teenage daydreams, and b. just how utterly horrific societal collapse would be.
It's clear these people aren't thinking big enough. We need a very large asteroid to hit the earth. I don't want society to fall apart, I want it all gone. There won't be an apocalypse to survive because everyone would be dead.
I felt this a little bit too much. I'm tired too. I'm tired of being tired. I'm tired of picking myself up again and again, saying it's fine and moving forward.
Thats one of the worst things about being a parent to a small child. I used to get excited about getting the flu. Week in bed just gormed out watching crap on TV.
I had a serious injury that meant staying in bed most of the day for a couple of years. It sucked hard, and I did none of my hobbies, just watched all of Netflix.
I'm mostly better now and am able to go to my job which also sucks.
At least that kind of fantasy is a real outcome rather than the delusional cope mechanism that has everyone believing this kind of reality should continue. The one where nothing significantly changes and we keep going one step forward, 2 steps back. All while people die, the inequality continues, etc.
I don't like being false about where we are and where we should be. This is not right.
We do still need to finish the civil war. That's something better we could be doing with our time, instead of doing what billionaires and their conservative minions want us to do.
When i was in a bad job and bad future prospects situation i fantasized/hoped for this. Was into zombie movies (id be among the first ones eaten, really).
Corona & homeoffice changed things. Lock down was bad but iwas already training for new job and had no time to go out.
Saving the commute is the only way i could imagine having time to raise kids. Well and another shit job that is also very chill because economy is bad so no reason to fight for raise.
Now, job might aswell be non existant by next year and all the shitty failing companies are pushing for RTO thinking mobile work is the reason of the fail, not idiot managers.
So, yes life is becoming unbearable again and i think this is part of the reason people are protesting aggressively, voting extreme parties in hopes of easement.
Politicians answer with more surveilliance, police brutality and less democracy.
I think with AI taking jobs, more extreme climate events we will see this more and more until revolution/civil war/collapse in europe & america.
I live in one of the fattest towns in the country. No chance I would be first eaten, they would take days just to eat through the outer perimeter of the town before they get close to my house.
Sometimes I think about it too, but then I’m like damn.. if everything goes to total shit, Will I be able to sit around playing games all day still?? If the answer is no, then that usually brings me back to reality haha.
All these horrible things have always happened, even worse, but less frequently because lower global population. And we’d never find out about it because they’re shooting babies on the other side of the world
Is it bad that we know about it? No? But I’m trying to catch up, digest it, let it help form my opinions, then turn off notifications, read a book, go outside T_T spend time with safe people irl. I hate leaving my nest, but it feels good to stretch my wings. I’m trying to limit myself to one or two days online. It’s not working
in a very interesting book i read a good long time ago called "the culture of narcissism", this is known as as Primary Narcissism. it is the most common form of human narcissism which is basically the desire to return to the womb.
We got the shutdown during COVID and I think it scared people because nobody enjoyed that. Accidentally did more to keep people invested in keeping the shitshow going than anything else.
I'll be honest, for some of us "essential" workers it was hell. We didn't get that time, we didn't get bonus compensation, we didn't get space. I lost multiple family members during those events and didn't even get to say goodbye to them. I say this out of genuine but not negative jealousy. Be thankful for that time you had. The way people describe it to me makes me want to agree with you about the world should take turns shutting down now and then to give people time and space to connect.
Absolutely! The planes not cluttering the skies was another one I didn't expect to appreciate at the time. A decade or so ago I was in Ohio when the US had like the entire eastern seaboard power grid drop for an evening. The night sky that night was something else, even through the clouds at the time. Makes me wish someday that I'll be able to go to one of the darker places on earth to really see the night sky in all its glory before I die.
For some people without family/support networks lockdown was a hell that they are still recovering from.
Imagine having to go out and work everyday when it feels like the rest of the world is baking bread, playing with/making babies, working on their novel. Then when you clock out there is fuckall to do but go home because everything is closed and you need to make sure your aging mother didn't fall down the stairs.
Shit, things weren't even that bad (compared to now, things were still inexcusably bad) when every other person was prepping/praying for the Zombie Apocalypse/2012/(whatever the comet close call was named).
I would wish for a major Desaster to "reset" society. Just because it's so bad. Fight-club-style. Rework capitalism ground-rules, kill religions, remove real-estate from private hands,....
Even though it does not affect me currently. Living the life. No work, just hobbies, traveling and fun. Didn't even notice covid or the lockdowns, and wifey and me still didn't have it.
The problem is that these people are so far away from reality that they think this would benefit them. They have no clue how their live would really be in case of a breakdown when the four horsemen going havoc.
I mean, on some level it's a bit of a revenge fantasy. People so many people in the world as fucking idiotic assholes whom you are surprised can manage to breath regularly they are so stupid, that all these idiots made the rold shit, maybe it might be nice if they actually had SOME kind of repercussions for being idiot assholes.
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Being hit by a motor vehicle of some sort owned by a large company with deep pockets and suffering a horrific but ultimately temporary injury with absolutely no longer-term health effects that nonetheless results in a seven figure injury settlement
Rip king
The New American Dream
Damn, and here I was thinking more like just slipping on a puddle in a store.
The settlement isn't gonna be as good if it doesn't impact your lifetime earnings. I have a family member that litigates this shit 🤮
Yeah that's why it's a dream
Isn’t this just winning the lottery with extra painful steps?
Yeah but instead of the state paying you, you get to increase a big company's insurance premiums for a while
Source. Attribution is cool.
Never expected to See the one true @rob_t_firefly on Lemmy!
Only because I See you on Mastodon all the time!
Hello! I'm always popping up in all sorts of places.
[Horror film suspense music intensifies]
Thank you! I saw it on bluesky
Chances are, they didn't write the text.
I see no evidence they didn't write it, I have yet to find an older source for the text, but would be interested in seeing it if you find one.
At any rate, this seems to the original uncropped version of the image posted here.
I hate to admit it but I’d love to go back to Covid times where I was forced to stay in my house and never leave. I don’t want people dying but I’m so fucking tired.
It wasn't any different for me. I was one of those so-called "essential workers". I still had to go to work. When I wasn't at work, I stayed home and layed in bed and played games. People talked about isolation and loneliness and I was just thinking " First time, is it?".
I honestly loved covid. Am I crazy? I got to stay in with my girl, be comfy, work from home, then watch movies and play video games, all with zero fomo.
I lost my grandma during covid and I’d still rather go back to that then this hell scape. At least with Covid I didn’t have to schedule my breakdowns.
Great for me; I'm "neurodivergent" anyway. Perish the thought of being forced to deal with sociopaths and other stressed-out employees I'd need to work with all day, every day until you die? Now that's my idea of going crazy!...
Covid time was personally great for me. Vietnam locked things down. We had food delivered. We didn't get sick. At home with the wife and kid. Watching movies and tv. Playing games. Making the second kid. I worked from home for something like 6 to 9 months because my office is in a neighboring province and VN didn't allow travel between provinces until a later relaxing of restrictions after vaccines became available.
I loved Covid, like not the disease or people dying. But the rise in WFH. My company finally wants to cease all WFH and it fucking sucks. I'm ready for another pandemic.
I can't really do offices, I burn out way too fast. It's not my kind of environment. Covid let me be a functional member of society, it gave me a taste of normalcy. Now all that is being taken away because middle-management needs to justify expensive offices. Offices that also drive up property costs so no one can afford homes.
Yay~!
This is the premise of Zom100: Bucket list of the Dead, the main character's job is so shitty, he considers the zombie apocalypse to be a massive improvement over having to go to work and just starts living his best life and doing all the things he never had time for.
It's very relatable.
I love Haro Aso so much, dude. Alice in Borderlands is just such a beautiful metaphor, I'll never get over it. This has been on my list for a while, I think Im gonna have to read it now.
My therapist told me that, in fact, it's not normal to wish to be hit by a bus on the way to work every morning just so you could escape from going to work.
I am bad about not looking when I cross at crosswalks. Someone asked me about it once, "If they hit me hard enough it won't be my problem anymore."
Watch for when Zombie/apocalypse movies start getting popular again.
It's absolutely a sign of mass despair at "the system".
Zombies make everyone equal again. The executive actually becomes dead weight compared to folks who have spent their lives doing physical or practical labour.
I think one of the biggest issues is that nothing is real anymore. 90% of what 90% of us do is utterly meaningless. For the average person, life is entirely solved. Our problems are mostly by choice, be it ours or someone else's. The only real things in our lives are tragedies that we'd never have been able to prevent or resolve anyway.
An apocalypse is enticing because then our actions would have direct consequences. Right now, the consequences of our actions are filtered and diffused through a trillion layers of bullshit where the positive and negative effects are basically invisible unless you make a ridiculous amount of money very quickly, or like, kill someone with your car.
"it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"
Many, many people, including myself, embraced the shit out of COVID.
That was a pretty clear sign that our society and way of life sucks.
Pictured: me longing for simpler times
I was almost not at all affected day to day by COVID, I just went to work still because it's isolated, no mask etc even needed.
But it was soooo much better with less traffic and less people at the stores. Even just, the "one way Aisles" at the stores were so much better. You go in, everything flows so much smoother.
What's struck me is how in America, the reality is the opposite of those fantasies. What's that? The nation's capital is being stormed by fascists attempting to kidnap lawmakers and overthrow the electoral process? And I'm still expected to just work like it's just a normal day??
I was literally stuck in a fucking Zoom meeting watching the insurrection in another window. Fuck this timeline.
No joke this is me. I had a major surgical procedure a decade ago. It was a 3 day hospital stay to recover. It's one of the most relaxing, peaceful times of my life, even with all the pain and nurses checking on me. I remember it very fondly.
I had major surgery last year. I was out of work for 2 months. It was the greatest decompression break from work ever, except I went back a week early and before I was really physically ready because I was only getting about 1/4 of my normal paycheck from disability and I was super broke (luckily I had managed to save up enough to pay my rent in advance). I read lots of books and stayed up all night playing video games and looking outside at the night sky.
It really sucked in other ways. I had 2 entire months where I only spoke to another human maybe 5-6 times and most of those were a coworker who knew I was lonely and would call me during downtime on their shift to check in and see how my recovery was going. It really highlighted how alone and invisible I am in this world and there's nothing quite so sad as being like well my surgeon says I can't lift any weight but I have to get groceries into my apartment somehow and take my trash across the complex to the cans and I have literally no one to ask to do that so I guess I'll just pray I don't rip open all my incisions and eviscerate myself.
“We’ve reached a point where Americans would rather the world fall apart than get off their cowardly asses and do something.”
It's always the same
The fact that plenty of them, most famously that poster-boy for 'Murican shit Henry Ford was a huge fan of Hitler and his bullshit gets glossed over
They sat out the war until they were pushed
And it will happen again and again, even when the problem is in their own house
Can confirm. This is me. Especially after the last two years. Everything just feels so hopeless, and I'm expected to spend most of my waking hours feeding a system that gleefully kicks us in the teeth every single day.
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Just getting silly here, but what if the people who are harmed by the system come together and abolish the system, because they are the majority?
There's a word for that, but whenever I start typing it into my phone a bunch of police drones start to buzz my building.
They can't; they're too busy posting online daring someone else to do it.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some 90 Days of Real Housewives of Whatever to binge.
That would require a level of solidarity that doesn't exist and a solid plan for what comes after, which no one has.
Most likely a bunch of stupid, selfish, assholes will co-opt whatever rises out of that and things will get just as bad only with worse infrastructure this time.
We've hit the point where people find the end of the world is more likely than the end of capitalism
Capitalism only stops when it runs out of fuel.
Is that not a normal feeling? Because I felt that way long before things got this bad.
i have always attributed this feeling to the fact we live in a system where our contributions dont really matter, as in that we only work for a number to go up, and not because its actually needed (with few exceptions)
tldr: i think its capitalisms fault.
as alwaysi think our society is making us work in a similar way that a bodybuilder works out: it's just about making [these muscles / that business] grow, even though they serve no purpose and could just as well just not exist, and things would be equally fine, but for whatever reason, we've made it a beauty ideal that these things are as big as possible, so we must max them! every! single! day!
I like to refer to this state as "Existential Apathy".
At some point, you just stop giving a shit and want to stop having to pretend to give a shit more than anything else.
Me in France right now.
Also because people come together during major crises.
And unfortunately, it does not look like we'll be able to get rid of capitalism (and more importantly capitalists) without either a mass uprising or a devastating catastrophe (like total ecological collapse).
Currently we're about to reach the latter, which I don't think is preferable, but perhaps it'll turn out well in the end. I sure hope so.
Since COVID I no longer believe this. Where I live, people immediately started hoarding essentials, threw low-paid retail workers under the bus, refused to follow even the most basic precautions to keep others safe (and had full-blow childish meltdowns and screamed in the faces of anyone who tried to ask them to comply), overwhelmed the healthcare system unnecessarily, burned down cell phone towers etc. Just a complete orgy of idiotic fuckery right from the start.
I agree. Since covid I lost my long held belief that humans are basically good.
Where I come from originally is kind of a remote place, that relies on tourism. We already have a huge problem with everyone buying their second holiday homes there and pricing the locals out of buying homes (which is a big part of why I moved.) Anyway, during COVID, because it's remote and sparsely populated, it had one of the lowest COVID rates in the country. As soon as the travel restrictions lifted, everyone descended on the place. There were mayors of towns on TV begging people not to come. But they came anyway, wrecked the place and left garbage everywhere, caused a huge COVID spike (in an area that has one hospital and a lot of elderly people), and when people complained about it we were told we should be grateful that the tourists are there spending money.
Luckily my family that still lives there were okay (you get good at not being where the tourists are after a while) but still. It's an area that's perpetually underfunded and neglected, and when it was at it's most vulnerable and just needed people to be just a tiny bit considerate for a moment, they trashed the place, used us as their disposable COVID bunker and then made fun of us for being unhappy about it, not to mention putting my family directly in harm's way.
The world seems to have largely moved on from that whole time now, but I will not forget this.
I really hoped that the recent plague would bring people together/weed out the bad apples, but the terrible people only got stronger/more insane and everyone else was forced apart.
That's why I never really fell into religion. Like 10 times in recent history, the apocalypse or rapture was supposed to happen; people were clapping their hands for Jesus' return, thinking they'd be chosen to ascend or go wherever. For how long exactly? Have they always been like this? I can't help but stand there wondering if those people aren't wrapped too tight and loose with reality; they kind of worry me. It's like they actually want the world to end every waking day, and they believe it.
Yes but somehow I would guess people in war zones, say for example in Ukraine, somehow wish for this boring normality we seem to be tired of. I try to think of that every time i seem too tired of the grind. Though in some way, I think everybody matters more in a war than in a peaceful economy
The ol' grass is greener on the other side paradox. I get it though, I sometimes catch myself thinking it. I don't even hate my job, it's just exhausting for reasons I'm working to resolve.
It's easier to imagine a convenient bad thing happening than a good thing happening, I guess?
I think it's simply that modern life is too far removed from what our instincts evolved to handle... A shitty life or death situation is something we're more equipped to handle (at least in our imagination) than societal problems so big that are effectively impossible for us to influence.
I guess a possible part of the solution could be breaking these problems down into manageable chunks?
"Think globally, act locally", as they say... and "locally" doesn't have to be a physical locale. It can be a fedi instance or a niche group of some kind.
Sure, we do all sorts of things to function in modern society, doesn't necessarily make it easy, or make escapism less attractive
True, although I meant making steps towards making it easier for everyone.
Do we have a c/lemmyirl?
There is a c/me_irl on both .world and .ml.
Thank you!
I just started letting it all out. Its the same as societal collapse but happening in real time.
people use alcohol to escape from certain things. i know people who did the reverse with work, they use work to escape from dealing problems at home.
I actually have money and a stable job and even I want a change, I’m tired
I'm knocking on the door of 60 but this has always been an idle daydream of mine.
As I've got older I've come to realise a. that I'm no longer young enough to be the heroic, plucky survivor of my teenage daydreams, and b. just how utterly horrific societal collapse would be.
What we would get instead: being sick and still forced to work after societal collapse, and pretend everything is fine
I'm at work and this hit me like a freight train. and I like my work.
I feel like getting hit by a freight train would be a little too far, but like ... at least my kids would get enough money to be OK?
I was more talking about the emotional freight train :D
Oh fuck, that's real.
no, it's imaginary, but that doesn't make it any less important
I'll be over here, worrying about the emotional freight train literally coming for me in my sleep or something
Insurance would rule it suicide and not pay out.
So many Things to unpack. Depending on the Policy, when I was in the US that was only true on my life insurance for the First 36 months.
If it was actually an accident, they would Not ... Well they would probably try...
It's clear these people aren't thinking big enough. We need a very large asteroid to hit the earth. I don't want society to fall apart, I want it all gone. There won't be an apocalypse to survive because everyone would be dead.
Bonus points for enough dust in the air to reverse global warming
How is this a shitpost? maybe lemmy depression ?
I felt this a little bit too much. I'm tired too. I'm tired of being tired. I'm tired of picking myself up again and again, saying it's fine and moving forward.
I was told my entire life that "the apocalypse will set us free"
They meant rapture. I have leaned into the idea of it meaning the societal collapse of climate change will bring about liberation.
The question is free from what? Free from scrounging and fighting for survival? Absolutely not. Free from modern medicine? That’s a guarantee
i always figured those folk were jim jonesing it
You don’t need an apocalypse to do that
I mean, being killed in water war II after decades of suffering can be considered a liberation, but that's not a great type of liberation
Thats one of the worst things about being a parent to a small child. I used to get excited about getting the flu. Week in bed just gormed out watching crap on TV.
This is the topic of a very unique and largely unknown TV show called “Paranoia Agent.”
An anime that's definitely worth watching, but the opening is what I really love:
https://youtu.be/-anabfAg06U
Tell me that's not intriguing...
I had a serious injury that meant staying in bed most of the day for a couple of years. It sucked hard, and I did none of my hobbies, just watched all of Netflix.
I'm mostly better now and am able to go to my job which also sucks.
At least that kind of fantasy is a real outcome rather than the delusional cope mechanism that has everyone believing this kind of reality should continue. The one where nothing significantly changes and we keep going one step forward, 2 steps back. All while people die, the inequality continues, etc.
I don't like being false about where we are and where we should be. This is not right.
oh come on, haven’t you seen Elon’s new car? It’s all like vrroooom skeeeerrr pssshhh! Finally a solution to all those half pipes out there.
So there’s hope.
"You're relieved you don't have to go to work 'cause you thought you were gonna get eaten? What the fuck is this world?"
We do still need to finish the civil war. That's something better we could be doing with our time, instead of doing what billionaires and their conservative minions want us to do.
When i was in a bad job and bad future prospects situation i fantasized/hoped for this. Was into zombie movies (id be among the first ones eaten, really).
Corona & homeoffice changed things. Lock down was bad but iwas already training for new job and had no time to go out.
Saving the commute is the only way i could imagine having time to raise kids. Well and another shit job that is also very chill because economy is bad so no reason to fight for raise.
Now, job might aswell be non existant by next year and all the shitty failing companies are pushing for RTO thinking mobile work is the reason of the fail, not idiot managers.
So, yes life is becoming unbearable again and i think this is part of the reason people are protesting aggressively, voting extreme parties in hopes of easement.
Politicians answer with more surveilliance, police brutality and less democracy.
I think with AI taking jobs, more extreme climate events we will see this more and more until revolution/civil war/collapse in europe & america.
I live in one of the fattest towns in the country. No chance I would be first eaten, they would take days just to eat through the outer perimeter of the town before they get close to my house.
You're like, "That's gonna kill me. That's real. That lives on Earth."
I thought I was gonna get eaten! I'm not a stupid fսckin' idiot. I know it was just a pig.
And when your first thought is, "Great, don't have to go to work tomorrow," you're relieved because you thought you were gonna get eaten?
What the fսck is this world? What have they done to us? What did they do to us?!
That was the most consequential day because now I know I don't like work.
I hate it, but I've been feeling this for a while now
I get excited during wildfire season.
Maybe my house will burn down and I'll get to go on a road trip for a few months while it gets sorted out...
yeah this motivates pretty much every isekai anime series.
I’m in this post and I don’t like it
Sometimes I think about it too, but then I’m like damn.. if everything goes to total shit, Will I be able to sit around playing games all day still?? If the answer is no, then that usually brings me back to reality haha.
That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was all the time I needed.
Mood
This is literally the plot of zom100
We all know it’s news that’s the problem
All these horrible things have always happened, even worse, but less frequently because lower global population. And we’d never find out about it because they’re shooting babies on the other side of the world
Is it bad that we know about it? No? But I’m trying to catch up, digest it, let it help form my opinions, then turn off notifications, read a book, go outside T_T spend time with safe people irl. I hate leaving my nest, but it feels good to stretch my wings. I’m trying to limit myself to one or two days online. It’s not working
COVID, TAKE ME AWAY!
This has always been a thing. Who knows if it's moreso now or not.
If you don't like your situation then it's kind of natural to romanticise some great upheaval that would shatter the status quo.
The thing I love the most about The Last of Us is the silence and nature
in a very interesting book i read a good long time ago called "the culture of narcissism", this is known as as Primary Narcissism. it is the most common form of human narcissism which is basically the desire to return to the womb.
We got the shutdown during COVID and I think it scared people because nobody enjoyed that. Accidentally did more to keep people invested in keeping the shitshow going than anything else.
The deaths caused by COVID-19 were terrible, but the whole lockdown thing was awesome. One of the best periods of my life so far.
We should have a lockdown for a couple of months every few years just to give everyone some time to unwind and relax.
I'll be honest, for some of us "essential" workers it was hell. We didn't get that time, we didn't get bonus compensation, we didn't get space. I lost multiple family members during those events and didn't even get to say goodbye to them. I say this out of genuine but not negative jealousy. Be thankful for that time you had. The way people describe it to me makes me want to agree with you about the world should take turns shutting down now and then to give people time and space to connect.
The thing I miss most is the clean air when walking home from work. Quiet too.
Absolutely! The planes not cluttering the skies was another one I didn't expect to appreciate at the time. A decade or so ago I was in Ohio when the US had like the entire eastern seaboard power grid drop for an evening. The night sky that night was something else, even through the clouds at the time. Makes me wish someday that I'll be able to go to one of the darker places on earth to really see the night sky in all its glory before I die.
I suffered alot during the lockdown, living alone without even a balcony was brutal.
It was some of the best times for me. At home with the family just hanging out and not getting sick. I realize a lot of people got sick and many died.
For some people without family/support networks lockdown was a hell that they are still recovering from.
Imagine having to go out and work everyday when it feels like the rest of the world is baking bread, playing with/making babies, working on their novel. Then when you clock out there is fuckall to do but go home because everything is closed and you need to make sure your aging mother didn't fall down the stairs.
I enjoyed the Covid shut down, meant I got to stay home, no plans to make, just peace. Loved every minute of it.
Survivalist in a nutshell.
Shit, things weren't even that bad (compared to now, things were still inexcusably bad) when every other person was prepping/praying for the Zombie Apocalypse/2012/(whatever the comet close call was named).
We reached that point somewhere in prehistory.
I would wish for a major Desaster to "reset" society. Just because it's so bad. Fight-club-style. Rework capitalism ground-rules, kill religions, remove real-estate from private hands,....
Even though it does not affect me currently. Living the life. No work, just hobbies, traveling and fun. Didn't even notice covid or the lockdowns, and wifey and me still didn't have it.
The problem is that these people are so far away from reality that they think this would benefit them. They have no clue how their live would really be in case of a breakdown when the four horsemen going havoc.
Alternatively, they're being so crushed by reality that they understand the outcome and still think it would be better.
That's even worse. So they're ok with sending everyone else into a disaster knowing full well what will happen?
Yeah, and I ultimately can't blame them for being that crushed and depressed
I mean, on some level it's a bit of a revenge fantasy. People so many people in the world as fucking idiotic assholes whom you are surprised can manage to breath regularly they are so stupid, that all these idiots made the rold shit, maybe it might be nice if they actually had SOME kind of repercussions for being idiot assholes.
Like maybe a meteor.
Its not like they wish it to happen they just wish it would stop happening to them.