Asklemmy

News and the media in general preys on fear. They want you to be terrified because it makes you watch the news and read the papers and their websites. They hype up anything that will scare you.

The whole COVID period proved that.

Not to worry. Every time we have a nuclear war we all just wake up the day before it happened again.

Unless you’re one of the unlucky few who survives it, you’ll never have to experience a nuclear war.

I feel you, more than you know. If you aren't on an SSRI, i can't recommend seeking a doctor that will prescribe you one, I had to quit smoking myself because I had a panic attack that sent me to the ER before I was medicated, qnd havent started back since cause the antidepressant works so well. Really hope you can get your shit sussed out, i was spiraling just as hard if not harder than you before I decided to seek medical help for my mental issues. You dont need to completely disconnect from the internet and news like everyone is saying, just get your mental health to a level where you can deal with how heavy shit is getting lately.

The only thing we can do is live the lives we have.

For as long as I've been alive we've always been on the brink of one thing or another. Worrying about the bits that you cannot change will only do you harm.

I found that reading The Zhuangzi really helped me get perspective on the state of the world.

Hmm... it sounds like the media sources that you use may be exaggerating information. Not to say that there aren't truly horrible things going on in the world, but I wouldn't say that it's bad enough that the world as we know it will end. Frankly, that's kind of how things have always been. There's always some existential crisis in every generation. And we've never aced a crisis, and we probably never will. But we'll probably crawl our way past the finish line in a kind of half-assed victory. Not the best outcome, but not the worst either.

The problem with comparing things to "how things were like in the past" is that we only remember the things worth remembering. This applies to everything - we only remember the good movies but not the bad ones, the good songs but not the bad ones, the good times, etc. Inherently, comparing things to the past will make it seem like society is going downhill. Not because things are worse now, but just because everyone forgot all the trash that were in the past and only remembered the memorable parts.

Anyways, it also sounds like you may have depression, and it's causing you to let bad news stew for longer than they should. Might be a strange question, but have you talked to a mental health professional about it?

I'm sorry to ask, but how old are you? The level of fucked does varies

Are we only on III somehow ?

Feels like we should be hitting ... like ... ww8 by now

Doomsday clock don't fucking work except for this.

no my friend. we are fine. sure, bad things happen , but a lot of it is just fearmongering. it will all work out

The key is to learn to accept our inevitable doom. It gets easier if you design yourself to it and just go play video games or something to pass the time.

Well weed can give you panic attacks so maybe it's time for a break on that in the first place, but a straight answer to your question is yes, we're fucked.

With this winter that has just passed, we are into Original Prediction territory - the original Shell (i think they worked for Shell?) engineers who discovered that CO2 was a greenhouse gas and did the math to predict the effects - this winter puts us back in line with that work. Every single prediction that has been made since has been watered down, dumbed down and spaced out. The original catastrophe predicted by those engineers is coming true right now.

Don't listen to these hippies saying erry li'l ting gon be awright, they simply haven't been paying attention and are a big part of the reason why nothing has been done about it in the first place, and there's nothing left to do but point fingers anyway. Barbarism and fire are coming; their heads are too far up their asses to see the shit that's about to mess up their diligently coifed hair.

To quote Matchbox 20, "Oh well, I guess we're gonna pretend"

Yes we are, just not all at the same time.

While big imperialist superpowers are quick to kill innocent civilians and sacrifice their own soldiers, the fear of their own death is enough deterrence to make them not use nukes.