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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 1 day 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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[–] FedPosterman5000@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Idk I live in a city and talk to people at the bus stop about everyday stuff, and it usually is more existence based than any kind of cultural discussion. Like yesterday at the bus stop we were talking about how Jay-z lost a million betting on basketball, and fucked up it is to hoard/waste like that in a world that’s suffering; which was an easy point of connection since we were standing in the rain since the city won’t build adequate shelters (because then homeless people could find a small bit of comfort).

And agree wholeheartedly on your description of America suburbia - and think it’s that way based on the fact that it was built with the explicit purpose of maintaining the “comfortable illusion” of wealth/safety through exclusion of “others”. And honestly have a hard time imagining that being salvaged.

Very rural, in my experience, faces a lot of the same precariousness as urban areas, and so I’ve found people (sometimes) more receptive to building community.

But yeah- agreed on suburbia - it’s just hyper individualist and built on exclusion, and idk how one would connect with the people that appeals to (ie why I don’t speak to any shitty conservative family members)