With all the negative stuff going on (Trump’s failed assassination) and everything, it is natural to get absorbed in the doomerism. Of course, pretending that nothing scary is happening isn’t the best thing to do. Scary stuff is happening, and we need to take action.
That being said, I personally trust Americans to do the right thing. Trump won’t win, and America won’t go fascist. This is because good people will fight and win. Same goes with other countries (France and the UK for example).
Leaving politics aside, there’s a lot of hope ahead. Science and Tech is advancing, life expectancy is increasing, investment in transit is increasing, countries r going greener, etc. Many cancer therapies r coming out (see the cancer vaccines for instance). Many cities have done some much needed land rezoning, due to which affordable housing will be a thing, 15 minute cities will be more and more common and so on.
The future is looking good, exciting stuff is happening and EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT.
Again, a little fear is good. Fear is what prevented early humans from being killed by predators, and it is what will prevent bad things from happening to us in the future. However, letting it consume our lives is a little counter intuitive.
I don’t think I share a single ounce of your optimism about anything really but I wish I did. I find living in this age fucking exhausting. I’m glad I’m unlikely to have kids at this point because I wouldn’t want to put more human beings into the misery that is existence right now.
But even then I’m glad there are some people out there capable of maintaining a positive outlook in the face of well… everything.
You probably typed this out on a supercomputer you took out of your pocket. Maybe you took a hot shower and slept in a bed last night? Shat on a toilet that went into a sewage system?
Sometimes I think all the internet did was take all the people who would have been perfectly fine living a normal human life and turned them all into world news junkies focused on things that have almost nothing to do with us.
It’s pick your poison I suppose. I would personally have an easier time dealing with a lower quality of life than I do with constant oppressive existential dread and ceaseless hopelessness and anxiety, but Imagine it’s different for everyone.
I guess, but it seems a lot like you might benefit from reducing online time. I know doing that and looking more locally has greatly decreased my anxiety.
I mean, I’m already not on any social media apart from Lemmy. I cultivate my subscriptions here carefully and typically avoid the /all feed. I try to limit my exposure to current events, but you can only bury your head in the sand so much. And even then, it’s not like the issues of the world go away just because I’m not looking at them. And consequently the anxiety doesn’t go away either. It’s possible to push out with temporary distractions, but that’s not really possible to maintain 24/7.