Watch for when Zombie/apocalypse movies start getting popular again.

It’s absolutely a sign of mass despair at “the system”.

Zombies make everyone equal again. The executive actually becomes dead weight compared to folks who have spent their lives doing physical or practical labour.

I think one of the biggest issues is that nothing is real anymore. 90% of what 90% of us do is utterly meaningless. For the average person, life is entirely solved. Our problems are mostly by choice, be it ours or someone else’s. The only real things in our lives are tragedies that we’d never have been able to prevent or resolve anyway.

An apocalypse is enticing because then our actions would have direct consequences. Right now, the consequences of our actions are filtered and diffused through a trillion layers of bullshit where the positive and negative effects are basically invisible unless you make a ridiculous amount of money very quickly, or like, kill someone with your car.

My therapist told me that, in fact, it’s not normal to wish to be hit by a bus on the way to work every morning just so you could escape from going to work.

Source. Attribution is cool.

I hate to admit it but I’d love to go back to Covid times where I was forced to stay in my house and never leave. I don’t want people dying but I’m so fucking tired.

Being hit by a motor vehicle of some sort owned by a large company with deep pockets and suffering a horrific but ultimately temporary injury with absolutely no longer-term health effects that nonetheless results in a seven figure injury settlement

Many, many people, including myself, embraced the shit out of COVID.

That was a pretty clear sign that our society and way of life sucks.

Can confirm. This is me. Especially after the last two years. Everything just feels so hopeless, and I’m expected to spend most of my waking hours feeding a system that gleefully kicks us in the teeth every single day.

“You’re relieved you don’t have to go to work 'cause you thought you were gonna get eaten? What the fuck is this world?”

Covid time was personally great for me. Vietnam locked things down. We had food delivered. We didn’t get sick. At home with the wife and kid. Watching movies and tv. Playing games. Making the second kid. I worked from home for something like 6 to 9 months because my office is in a neighboring province and VN didn’t allow travel between provinces until a later relaxing of restrictions after vaccines became available.

We’ve hit the point where people find the end of the world is more likely than the end of capitalism

Yes but somehow I would guess people in war zones, say for example in Ukraine, somehow wish for this boring normality we seem to be tired of. I try to think of that every time i seem too tired of the grind. Though in some way, I think everybody matters more in a war than in a peaceful economy

Just getting silly here, but what if the people who are harmed by the system come together and abolish the system, because they are the majority?

Also because people come together during major crises.

And unfortunately, it does not look like we’ll be able to get rid of capitalism (and more importantly capitalists) without either a mass uprising or a devastating catastrophe (like total ecological collapse).

Currently we’re about to reach the latter, which I don’t think is preferable, but perhaps it’ll turn out well in the end. I sure hope so.

I was told my entire life that “the apocalypse will set us free”

They meant rapture. I have leaned into the idea of it meaning the societal collapse of climate change will bring about liberation.