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It's difficult being a millennial and trying to confront the nostalgic feeling (that naturally comes with aging) that "things were better in my youth," because things objectively were better in my youth.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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I dunno, I hear stories from my coworkers about how bad East Germany and other former Soviet states were in the 80s/90s. It depends a lot on where you were fortunate enough to grow up.
Also ignorance is bliss and as kids we didn't give a shit about politics. But in this instance things were 100% better no doubt.
Idk, I wanted to kill myself as a kid and don't now. So personally, the world seems pretty okay to me.
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The world's healing progresses much more slowly than the individual's. We have hundreds of years of colonialism and ecological devastation to heal from and that shit won't happen overnight. You are part of the world and your healing makes the world better. Focus on what you can do and do that. Trying to take responsibility for the whole mess will destroy you, it's out of your hands.
Okay but if it could move in vaguely the same direction as me that would be great.
Right, and this is just one of those times where the scab was itchy so we scratched it off. We re-opened the gouge and are bleeding again. The question is whether the healing is still happening, with a little backtracking, or whether we’re exposing ourselves to gangrene
Looked outside? Not a question. Need a bone saw if we want to heal.
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I, for one, feel a lot less crazy now that people are seeing what I have been seeing for a long time. I hear about it more even from old folks, my in laws now ask more questions as do my own parents. That gives me a lot of hope. Change is inevitable.
Same here. I've been saying for 25 years that the right wing Christian clowns were going to ruin this country and eventually the world. At the time my folks, family and friends all thought I was just some conspiracy nut.
I've felt like Courage the Cowardly Dog until the last year or two.
I'm just happy that I'm old enough not no be immediately drafted.
I don't have to worry about being drafted, I'm officially morally unqualified to serve in my nation's armed forces!
Don't worry they make waivers for everything.
Then i get free shot at some officers!
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Cries in Elder Millennial
70s and 80s too
this is happening to everyone.
Just imagine living in Ukraine or Iran…at any age right now.
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80s babies too
If you share how you improve, others could join. That could grow until everybody is healed.
Question is, what do healthy people want? Do they want to live in peace or do they prefer to fight and to risk everything?
Healthy people want to live in peace, but also recognize when is the time to fight for that peace.
"healthy" people want to be lied to and be told everything will be ok so they can continue being selfish pricks. not because they are selfish pricks, but because our species is selfish pricks.
Our species is not that selfish. The selfishness is what is induced to make people “healthy”.
I am asking about healthy people. What do they want?
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Si vis pacem...
I am comfortable with the knowledge that I spent the best years of my life in the '90s. The music, the clothes, the general vibe, the prices... The few wars of the era look like kids playing Risk compared to what's brewing now.
The lifestyle and material conditions enabled by a century and a half of fossil fuels are coming to a close.
It will only get worse from here. There is no recovery.
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