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Hello fellow 1980 baby. Have you ever seen a chicken hatch? It's a pretty destructive process. The chick is immediately exposed to a myriad of microorganisms, a sharp shell, embryonic fluid, and plenty of other potential hazards that it can easily kill itself on in the first 20 minutes of its life. However, if it can manage to make it through the hazards you end up with a cute fluffy yellow chick, for another day. They turn brown and dull way too quick for me, at least when I was 10. My point here is that humanity is also going through a transitory period currently. We have already technically reached post scarcity levels, and the proletariat is noticing that. There is bound to be a fair bit of bloodshed over the next couple decades as we strip the power from the ultra wealthy sociopaths that currently run the ship, but the upside is that fucktons of really smart people understand that the roadmap to world peace includes universal education for all, and the elimination of extremes of poverty and wealth.
It's pretty bad right now, but it's not hopeless everywhere! There are some parts of the world that are getting developed for the first time though it's probably approaching the end for America
Yes, yes it has
I know you already got this but here is it again in my own words: don't watch the news, don't read social media, make personal connections one on one with people and judge your life by your vision and lens. Most people are judging it through a distorted news or social media centric set of glasses and it sounds hopeless. But when you look at your own family and friends you might just realise they're better than you think, you're able to find time to play and connect, you can still work and live with comfort, and your kids can grow up strong and healthy.
Start discarding that which is not truely part of your life, ignore the billionaires, the enshitification and all other forms of uncontrollable and frankly, barely affects you. These societal issues are always painted with someone else's view point.
When you find something that does directly, without someone else telling you it does, affect you, and you're in the mentally healthy place to take on that challenge, that's when you Ave. If you think about it like that, and others did the same, most of our societal problems would be tasked by those who are in positions to do so.
I say this as someone who's currently on 24/7 standby watching someone kind of like you, but going through depression, going through hopelessness, and going through addiction recovery (with all the slip ups). And their life right now is made, but they're so busy fixated on issues they can't either control nor have affects on them. They've got a house, it's part paid off, they've got a well paying job, the owners of that job respect and offering pay rises to them, they've got a partner, who's struggling their best to help them. In isolation they're in luxury. But they get self worked up about other people's business and societal or global issues. For what good? Stay grounded and self aware. Be thankful to yourself for making it so far already, and see the upward trends over the entire life and not the tiny problems of today.
It's all going to plan. It's why they prime us with movies about modern day civil wars, AI killer robots, and government overthrows.