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Are we ever going to be able to live in a time where we don't feel constant anxiety over the future? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by refolde@hexbear.net to c/doomer@hexbear.net

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The state of the world haunts the back of my mind every day. I can never push it out.

I can feel brief moments of joy, but I can't say I'm ever happy, not while the world is like this.

Maybe that very world is a dystopia where the U.S.'s iron grip is so solidified that it becomes clear that nothing can ever challenge it, so no one has any expectations that things "could" get better anymore. The same world where the unbreakable, invincible Israeli empire is established in the middle east and maybe beyond. Constant anxiety is replaced by a feeling of constant dread and sadness, as "U.S.-realism" or "colonial-realism" "genocide-realism" becomes the law of reality.

At that point, the only real option is to "escape" from this hellhole.

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[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel this every day. We have to watch children being murdered abroad and children, women, and workers being abducted and tortured here in the US. Then we have to watch as those who speak out on these atrocities are disappeared, shot and assaulted by police.

The future looks grim - grim for the Palestinians, grim for migrants in the US, and for every other group that is being or will be targeted by the rising fascism across the world. Millions, maybe billions will die. Every day, we might wake up to nuclear war.

None of this affects me really, being a white us citizen. But I can't just watch and forget about it. It haunts my mind every day.

And the economic fears and pain continue. Groceries continue to rise, my rent continues to rise, and when a recession and layoffs inevitably happen, the meager life which my partner and I have built might be lost as well. I'm lucky that we both have family that will take us in, otherwise homelessness would be our future.

There is nothing you can do but keep on going. Find and cherish any revolutionary optimism and small victory you can. There is a new world struggling to be born and we must continue to believe that. Otherwise, suicide is the only sensible option.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

I hate how much of my self-worth is tied up in Capitalist ideology. I feel worthless as a human being because I don't have work and am resorting to farming sweepstakes sites for a bit of income. I hate that society thinks I'm lazy or something is wrong with me because my brain isn't geared to being a cubicle drone.