Again, I will try to keep this short.
I have no idea what I'm doing in life. I will turn 20 this year and I already wish I was 60. I want to retire and not give a shit about my career or anything else. The world is going to shit and I feel completely powerless to even fix something as simple as my own life. I feel like an observer, or worse, an NPC. I just want to say I haven't had a sip of alcohol in a couple of weeks and I think I'm going insane. Anyways, here is what is keeping me awake.
The world is going to shit. The economy is going to shit. Some normie political analysts are pretty optimistic; I'm not. I think the 2020s are going to be a horrible decade. I can tell you what's going to happen. Crushing austerity measures will impact social services, mental health access, education, and research. Unemployment, mental illness, and drug use will tick upwards. The worst thing is that the recovery to the coronavirus recession will not proceed equally, thanks to economic segregation; rich Chads and poorcels live, work, and are educated in different communities. Unlike previous recessions, however, ruthlessly lookist platforms like Instagram and TikTok will lay the disparity bare for everyone (especially children and teenagers) to see. As social mobility remains possible for some and distant for others, inequality will breed jealously, jealously breeds resentment, and resentment breeds extremism. The ranks of disillusioned young individuals on 4chan, on our forum, and in fringe communities on Discord, will continue to grow rapidly. At first glance, this sounds like an awesome thing for us, but it isn't; consider the context of political polarization, economic segregation, and social media-based sensationalism. A moral panic surrounding our online communities means it will be even more commonplace for normies, in face-to-face interactions, to treat anyone who looks or acts like a "loser" or "weirdo"-- whether they're neuroatypical, facially ugly, short, poor, and/or ethnic -- with contempt.
Normies will respond to all aforementioned issues with a mix of condescension and fear. Over the next decade or two, racism, classism, and lookism will lead to political pressure on legislators to support counterproductive tough-on-crime laws and expand the reach of government surveillance and law enforcement operations. Already, many governments were given emergency powers to tackle the pandemic; the problem with newfound powers is that (historically speaking,) governments are typically reluctant to relinquish them after the emergency is over. As much of the world gradually transitions to telecommuting and teleconferencing, online activity will be as integrated into our lives as ever. Governments and the private sector won't hesitate to leverage the power of the internet to micromanage every aspect of our lives. Say goodbye to cash, privacy, and some of our other civil liberties.
Consequently, the 2020s and 2030s will be marked by an era of democratic backsliding. Political scientists throughout the 1990s expected that liberal democracies would be a permanent fixture in the West; that, quite frankly, is bullshit. Democracies can and do deteriorate; with the confluence of polarization, populism, and fear, what happened to institutions in Poland and Hungary over the last decade can and will probably happen in the United States and the United Kingdom in the coming years. Political activism through organized civil society groups might fade away in importance, supplanted by the ineffectual hashtag activism of Reddit cucks and Twitter soys who are more interested in karma whoring and woke points than our actual civil liberties. Now, most of this is nothing new. But the pandemic has accelerated all of these economic, cultural, and political trends. This world is going to suck more than it already does. I probably have more to say about how this fits into the current geopolitical backdrop but this is already a longer rant than I thought it would be.
I know some of you, maybe most of you, will probably disagree with what I have to say. That is OK. I'm not really in the mood to argue.
Sorry about this, guys. I was just going to rant about my own life but I couldn't even stay on topic, I was going to write a 50-word post about feeling like shit and now it isn't just a 50-word post. What I really want to do is hit up one of my favourite bars in London -- the Connaught -- for a martini, but they're closed. My sleep schedule is fucked, I haven't slept in 24 hours, and when I do sleep I'll probably go to bed for a whole 20 hours or something. I have a massive headache and wish I didn't exist. I will probably take a break from the forum and see if I feel better.
I have no idea what I'm doing in life. I will turn 20 this year and I already wish I was 60. I want to retire and not give a shit about my career or anything else. The world is going to shit and I feel completely powerless to even fix something as simple as my own life. I feel like an observer, or worse, an NPC. I just want to say I haven't had a sip of alcohol in a couple of weeks and I think I'm going insane. Anyways, here is what is keeping me awake.
The world is going to shit. The economy is going to shit. Some normie political analysts are pretty optimistic; I'm not. I think the 2020s are going to be a horrible decade. I can tell you what's going to happen. Crushing austerity measures will impact social services, mental health access, education, and research. Unemployment, mental illness, and drug use will tick upwards. The worst thing is that the recovery to the coronavirus recession will not proceed equally, thanks to economic segregation; rich Chads and poorcels live, work, and are educated in different communities. Unlike previous recessions, however, ruthlessly lookist platforms like Instagram and TikTok will lay the disparity bare for everyone (especially children and teenagers) to see. As social mobility remains possible for some and distant for others, inequality will breed jealously, jealously breeds resentment, and resentment breeds extremism. The ranks of disillusioned young individuals on 4chan, on our forum, and in fringe communities on Discord, will continue to grow rapidly. At first glance, this sounds like an awesome thing for us, but it isn't; consider the context of political polarization, economic segregation, and social media-based sensationalism. A moral panic surrounding our online communities means it will be even more commonplace for normies, in face-to-face interactions, to treat anyone who looks or acts like a "loser" or "weirdo"-- whether they're neuroatypical, facially ugly, short, poor, and/or ethnic -- with contempt.
Normies will respond to all aforementioned issues with a mix of condescension and fear. Over the next decade or two, racism, classism, and lookism will lead to political pressure on legislators to support counterproductive tough-on-crime laws and expand the reach of government surveillance and law enforcement operations. Already, many governments were given emergency powers to tackle the pandemic; the problem with newfound powers is that (historically speaking,) governments are typically reluctant to relinquish them after the emergency is over. As much of the world gradually transitions to telecommuting and teleconferencing, online activity will be as integrated into our lives as ever. Governments and the private sector won't hesitate to leverage the power of the internet to micromanage every aspect of our lives. Say goodbye to cash, privacy, and some of our other civil liberties.
Consequently, the 2020s and 2030s will be marked by an era of democratic backsliding. Political scientists throughout the 1990s expected that liberal democracies would be a permanent fixture in the West; that, quite frankly, is bullshit. Democracies can and do deteriorate; with the confluence of polarization, populism, and fear, what happened to institutions in Poland and Hungary over the last decade can and will probably happen in the United States and the United Kingdom in the coming years. Political activism through organized civil society groups might fade away in importance, supplanted by the ineffectual hashtag activism of Reddit cucks and Twitter soys who are more interested in karma whoring and woke points than our actual civil liberties. Now, most of this is nothing new. But the pandemic has accelerated all of these economic, cultural, and political trends. This world is going to suck more than it already does. I probably have more to say about how this fits into the current geopolitical backdrop but this is already a longer rant than I thought it would be.
I know some of you, maybe most of you, will probably disagree with what I have to say. That is OK. I'm not really in the mood to argue.
Sorry about this, guys. I was just going to rant about my own life but I couldn't even stay on topic, I was going to write a 50-word post about feeling like shit and now it isn't just a 50-word post. What I really want to do is hit up one of my favourite bars in London -- the Connaught -- for a martini, but they're closed. My sleep schedule is fucked, I haven't slept in 24 hours, and when I do sleep I'll probably go to bed for a whole 20 hours or something. I have a massive headache and wish I didn't exist. I will probably take a break from the forum and see if I feel better.
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