Well I dunno. I assume you are young late teens early 20s. THE point where you are looking to make a big impact on the world, be top revenue earner and get a whole mattress full of Gucci belts.
There had never been a better time in European history to be alive. Sure it might not be fun to be Syrian or Palestinian, but I'm not so honestly all I gotta do is get sheered once a while and eat my pellets.
You can run off to seek adventure on Mars or smash the system. My idea of adventure is 4 days in a foreign city on tour busses and arguing about what restaurant to eat in.
As long as my bubble doesn't burst the world can burn around me, I'm going to die of coronavirus now I bet.
It's all about priorities.
The vast majority of people in a society are the sheep, yes there's a few naughty sheep that jump the fences now and then but they don't stray too far from the safety of normality.
Edit: my phone decided to maul what I babbled about and I'm too tired. To proof read it lol will fix later maybe.
Interesting, I'm actually in my 40s and whilst not 'anti-consumerism' I certainly don't buy into the system where you're worth as a human is determined by how much you earn and how well you play the game.
It frustrates me that everything is so binary, there's no nuance to discussion and dislike the 'if you're not with us you're against us' mentality. Everything is so dumbed down, massive issues reduced to soundbites with the US being a more extreme example than the UK.
I've always been a bit of an undercover hippy and get annoyed about how we're treating the planet so it's frustrating to see policy makers consistently pass laws which serve corporations instead of people and the environment. The disparity between average citizens and the upper, upper levels has increase massively in our lifetimes, so it's relatively new.
I like the idea of restructuring society into a bottom-up system focusing on local communities who then inform county levels who in turn inform national policies. Local communities looking after themselves, sourcing most things locally and building relationships governing themselves.
I feel like that's the answer to most of our issues, financial and psychological. The government is a clunky old system, a bucket riddled with holes wasting resources. On top of that we have corps skimming off massive amounts of money, money that comes from citizens. With that money comes power, power to make decisions that serve the companies and share holders with no accountability. The banking system is screwed. The planet has already reached a tipping point and still governments are resistant to change. I feel like we've got our foot flat on the floor, accelerating towards the edge of a cliff and still we're told it's all fine.
Like others have said, 'don't worry about it, you can't change it' and so billions of people stay in their hamster wheel, being good 'normal' citizens who don't ask questions whilst billions of others simply struggle to make it through the day.
I still feel like consumerism can work but greed is the problem, communism could work but corruption and greed are still the problem, pretty much any system
could work but greed, corruption and exploitation stop these things working. It seems there will always be people drawn to power in order to abuse it, that is the immaturity of our species. It whether we can make it past this stage which determines whether we make it at all.
And that's all
on-top of all the mid-level crap we're fed on a daily basis, all the stuff from my OP.
Don't get me wrong, I've lived a life, done things that would impress some of you, had incredible relationships and done a fair bit of traveling. I grew up outside the age of the internet and so much has changed in recent years. When I was a kid people were ignorant to the damage we were causing, we don't have that excuse now. My only option is to hope that 'technology is our saviour' and that it can tide us over until we progress to a more enlightened time in the human story.
It frustrates that we're all so powerless to affect the world around us and that so many people are happy to play the game and pound out their time on the hamster wheel.
“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your ******* khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk,
Fight Club
Oh and it would be nice to have a break from the insanity caused by the ineptitude of those in charge.
