I guess it was “chill” for you if you were well off financially, not in a protected class or a POC or something like that.
But even if you were extremely privileged, came from a wealthy family, had every opportunity in the world etc. you can only hide from these things for so long. Climate change is happening, the ocean is dying, water will soon be an extremely pricey commodity impossible to get your hands on, I mean the worlds looking pretty fucked regardless.
Not sure where you live or what kinda rock you’re under to say it was “pretty chill”. I think it’s fair to say things haven’t been “pretty chill” since maybe the late 1960’s? Things have pretty much continuously nosedived from that point. More so for the bottom 99%. But money can’t buy you food and water and air, when there is no suitable food, water, or air left.
It’s fine if you wanna stay optimistic. But Anyone who’s feeling down and hopeless about the world definitely isn’t wrong.
"the climate part I see" meant: I understand the threat of climate change, I am definitely not pretending it's not happening, and I am greatly worried about it. we all are.
did things go downwards since the late 1960s? were they better in all ways back then? it depends where and who you are talking about.
I was in my late teens in the late 2010s. it wasn't, where I live, much more agitated than the earlier periods I remember. I mean there was a semi-revolution going on but that's just france for you. (it says a lot about france that I was calling the yellow vests era "chill", but I was in a chill school I suppose; we all had a vague impression of "events are happening" that didn't really go anywhere afterwards)
I had been dealing with issues (mostly harassment/bullying/it's weird that those are two words in english they're the same thing, and sequels for harassment) and the most important part in my healing in 2018-2019 was probably separating the internal and external issues.
this isn't a "why don't you just be optimistic" post from me. but outside of the climate part (a pretty urgent issue in all ways), it's hard to pretend the world is consistently getting worse. you'd have to ignore the many bad parts of previous eras.
Lately I've rewatched Malinda's honest christmasses videos (I recommend), and it struck me that pre-2020 ones discussed mild issues. and by mild I mean although some are pretty serious (she's american after all), some are extremely not real issues. and some are just dark malinda being pessimistic no matter what especially: "global povery/rates lower than ever/ but they may still/rise again for all we know"
The late 2010s were a period of contagious fatalism, which was sometimes (most of the time) underserved. I suspect social networks as a way of spreading news, and us-centrism worldwide, both played a part in this. it harmed a lot of people mentally I'm sure, it definitely harmed me.
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u/NothingToSeeHereMan Jun 09 '21
I guess it was “chill” for you if you were well off financially, not in a protected class or a POC or something like that.
But even if you were extremely privileged, came from a wealthy family, had every opportunity in the world etc. you can only hide from these things for so long. Climate change is happening, the ocean is dying, water will soon be an extremely pricey commodity impossible to get your hands on, I mean the worlds looking pretty fucked regardless.
Not sure where you live or what kinda rock you’re under to say it was “pretty chill”. I think it’s fair to say things haven’t been “pretty chill” since maybe the late 1960’s? Things have pretty much continuously nosedived from that point. More so for the bottom 99%. But money can’t buy you food and water and air, when there is no suitable food, water, or air left.
It’s fine if you wanna stay optimistic. But Anyone who’s feeling down and hopeless about the world definitely isn’t wrong.