The Planet is Dying but You've Got Work on Monday - Collapse 2050
Posted by pseudohim@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 151 comments
Posted by pseudohim@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 151 comments
CannyGardener@reddit
Whenever someone posts something about this topic, it makes me think of the beginning of Children of Men. The main character goes to get coffee on his way to work in a nearly dead world, the coffee shop is bombed behind him, but he goes to work anyway. On the train there are people throwing rocks at the train from the outside but everyone inside just keeps doing their thing. He gets to work and everyone is still 'working' many are crying. He sits there staring at his computer for a while until the boss comes over and he tells the boss that some news story was getting him down and he needs to go home. Boss distractedly tells him to go home without question. Instead of going home, goes to a friends house in the boonies to smoke weed.
I feel like the end of the world is going to be a lot weirder than many folks realize LOL and that is if things end as they are now, and we don't get some crazy Black Mirror shit with robots and AI.
yinsotheakuma@reddit
The news story was the youngest person on Earth was shot and killed because they wouldn't sign an autograph.
2ndChairKazoo@reddit
Baby Diego, who was 25.
Bubis20@reddit
I am in for the greatest woodstock/tommorowland of our life time...
Prestigious_Wrap_932@reddit
This is what life is like in urban America already.
Every day on my way to the office I pass by burned out buildings and long-shuttered storefronts covered with graffiti directly next door to gleaming luxury apartment towers with homeless schizophrenic addicts passed out in piles of trash on the sidewalk.
We’re already living in a soft dystopia we just don’t realize it because the slide into chaos has happened so gradually.
LiquefactionAction@reddit
Yup. I live/work in Oakland and while we've always had a reputation (some fair, mostly unfair), the last several years have been crazy with burned out or boarded up RVs everywhere, and just insane piles of trash that's worse than I've ever seen it.
And it's not just here. Tons of places are hollowing out, shuttered storefronts with 5-1 condos, and just accumulating trash just -everywhere-
GalaxyPatio@reddit
I've known that things have been bad for years already but my sign that things are way worse than people realize is walking through my neighborhood. I live in a kind of stereotypically upscale side of town that's mostly walkable with very cute little storefronts. Just in the past few months I've seen more instances of homeless people taking refuge in the corners between the buildings (which I'm not unfamiliar with having lived in a much bigger city before) but what tells me how bad it is is that they are managing to go days in one place without the people here calling the cops on them.
Prestigious_Wrap_932@reddit
Here in the San Francisco area the homeless are a more common site than birds. Cities ignore them while they build elaborate structures out of garbage and only move in to clean things up when there’s a fire or a death in one of the camps, and then they move a few blocks and just start over.
The most startling thing to me is the giant new apartment towers that are going up everywhere, since all of them have ground floor retail that’s perpetually empty and none of the residents ever come outside in their own neighborhood. They‘ve added multiple 100+ unit buildings in the neighborhood near my office since COVID and the streets and local businesses are emptier than they were before the new towers were built.
The juxtaposition of urban blight and luxury in the same building would be jarring if it wasn’t so commonplace.
cool_side_of_pillow@reddit
And that ground floor retail has a security guard.
LiquefactionAction@reddit
For like the last 5 years, I think about that exact same sequence of events in the movie almost every waking hour of my life. It's crazy how prescient it was and just feeling it irl these days.
Applesburg14@reddit
Carol and the End of the World (?) is similar
BellaRyder2505@reddit
That movie literally makes no sense to me because how are people going crazy because children aren't being born?? Like that makes no sense and to act like when that child is born at the end is a good thing.
yinsotheakuma@reddit
It's an apocalypse movie and the apocalypse is "no children." Having a kid being born is the same as shooting down the saucers in Independence Day.
BellaRyder2505@reddit
That literally makes no sense to me. No more people means a better world.
yinsotheakuma@reddit
Yeah. Figured.
It's called "understanding people who aren't you have perspectives that aren't yours."
BellaRyder2505@reddit
Why would a baby crying or someone having a baby change people? And why bring a child into that horrific and suffering environment?!! Why? And news flash people still bring children into war zones and poverty and they are still suffering. Children go through hell and genocides and people are still having kids and that is not changing the suffering. What a stupid movie and stupid concept. This world and society never ever has and never ever will care about the safety or protection of a child.
yinsotheakuma@reddit
Pretending that you don't understand the perspectives of others because you're so righteous about your own is something that plays well on the internet, but is insufferable among actual adults in the real world.
BellaRyder2505@reddit
I never said I was morally superior. I was just saying the truth.
yinsotheakuma@reddit
"It's different; my perspective is right."
Ah, yes. Of course. My apologies. We've found the one right person in Earth's history and it's the three-month-old Reddit account.
blackheva@reddit
Hope is never rational.
BellaRyder2505@reddit
😂
red_zephyr@reddit
Humans have never been, and never will be, creatures of absolute logic. We’re animals. You’re not above it.
How does a child make the world better?
You really can’t think of anything?
You really don’t think the crying of the first baby born in 18 years would snap a violently depressed society into feeling something hopeful, and realizing life isn’t over?
Children are the future; it’s so defeatist and odd to just say oh yeah, no, everyone ever born is trash, all humans suck, and life would be so much better on earth if there weren’t any.just because that is YOUR reality, doesn’t mean it IS reality.
Evening_Grass_8073@reddit
You know how the countries with the highest birth rates are generally also the ones considered apart of the third-world? That's the paradox. The film is closer to reality than you think.
BellaRyder2505@reddit
Yes! And no one stops violence or the suffering or chaos because a damn baby cries! So fucking stupid! 😂
vinegar@reddit
Traditionally the end of humanity has been seen as a bad thing. In this 2007 movie based on a 1992 book, the end of humanity took the form of a fertility crisis. Books and movies don’t always perfectly show the world as it is, they sometimes show a different reality so we can see a different perspective.
Grand-Page-1180@reddit
I think the idea is that children were the future, and if no children are being born, people just give up. They can't pass on or instill their values to their children, they can't hope that they succeed where they failed, they can't leave behind a legacy. People can do bad things (like in the movie) because they don't have to set an example for their children, or don't have to worry about being arrested and taken away from them. I can see a society descending into anarchy, hoplessness, or misanthrophy or whatever else because of those things.
BellaRyder2505@reddit
That is literally the world we live in now with people having kids. There are wars and famines and chaos with people having kids. And what legacy??!! Suffering and pain?! Have to clean up the mess the past generation made?!! Legacy is bs!
RueTabegga@reddit
Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.
Some things are never going to change. We have to eat and keep ourselves safe. Unfortunately, in the capitalist system this looks like just going about your day until you too are forced to become the background noise while other folks just keep going about their day until they too are affected, etc.
We will be in The Crumbles a long time. Look at how the stock market no longer resembles the real world economy. Things can crumble for way longer than we want before actually collapsing. And what comes next might be even more terrifying. Who knows?
doomtimes@reddit
"The Crumbles". I like that - I'm adding that to my lexicon about all this.
RueTabegga@reddit
It’s from the podcast It Could Happen Here.
thelingererer@reddit
Everything in The Children Of Men scenario is feasible except for the boss who shows compassion and lets him go home for the day. In my experience the worse things get the more people at the top double down on cruelty and taking advantage of others.
Monsur_Ausuhnom@reddit
This seems optimistic for putting it at 2050. It's likely 2030 and later.
pseudohim@reddit (OP)
This Substack post by author Sarah Connor (ha ha) outlines the "intricate, exhausting adaptation of dual consciousness" most of us must perform in order to maintain our livelihoods while simultaneously harboring knowledge of the reality of its futility.
Mathfanforpresident@reddit
I'll tell you one thing we shouldn't say, and the only reason I'm doing this is for free speech purposes into demonstrate exactly what we shouldn't say. So, we absolutely refrain from saying "we must bring back public executions for the people who are actively destroying our civilization". You cannot say stuff like that. I've only done this to demonstrate things that you cannot say.
GloriousDawn@reddit
"The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses" -- Utah Phillips
summercookiess@reddit
and that might be anyone reading this quote too.
Magnesium4YourHead@reddit
Eight billion addresses.
Gioware@reddit
Very low chances on that. Reddit is mostly radical-left, distilled wokie US citizens.
clovis_227@reddit
Which, regardless of what you could possibly mean by that, would still put them among the top resource consumers in the world.
Gioware@reddit
As an example - China is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide due to coal consumption and is in fact 30% of global emission.
So no, that might not be anyone reading this quote LMAO. Redditors are just mostly delusional, radical-left, distilled wokie US citizens
clovis_227@reddit
Because all that China produces is for internal consumption, right?
Gioware@reddit
Are we discussing China sale channels or who is killing it might be reading quote on reddit?!
tritisan@reddit
The past didn’t go anywhere.
sYferaddict@reddit
hypermodernism@reddit
r/thanosdidnothingwrong
followupquestion@reddit
Thanos was absolutely wrong, both in his understanding of people and their desire to breed and in his lack of justice for those who make the galaxy unlivable for the rest of us. His snap just eliminated 50% of people, but it ignored how fundamentally unjust that is. He, in essence, chose Order over Justice, and that was before he threatened to eliminate all life in the galaxy and start over to build his Utopia.
Evening_Grass_8073@reddit
That and 50% of all life in the universe includes plants and fungi, not just animals. He only scaled the problem down instead of fixing the imbalance he was obsessed with. So dude was just a straight up dumbass
Low_Complex_9841@reddit
> or it's just modern Hollywood writing lol
I did read somewhere over internet that in Source Material (comix?) Thanos was wanna be lover of Death herself, so all this big D Destruction was like hero quest in his eyes or something. So ya, it probably was dumbed down for silver screen.
Evening_Grass_8073@reddit
You're absolutely right, Thanos was far more villainous in the comics, and it made him a much more interesting character for it. But western audiences seem to have this obsession with "nuanced" or "sympathetic" villains even if it doesn't excuse their behaviour, so they really had to dumb down film Thanos to make him fit that archetype.
Essentially, comic Thanos is unfiltered evil and film Thanos is just the average politician. And honestly I can't tell which one of those is worse morally speaking
yinsotheakuma@reddit
"That's illegal. Extremely illegal. Very. Very. Illegal."
GloriousDawn@reddit
But not illegal to say "with a mortar launcher".
Psychopathena@reddit
You actually can stay stuff like that, and you can do stuff like that as evidenced by certain heroes.
gerusz@reddit
You can say that in most democratic countries, in the meaning that it is probably still under the umbrella of free speech. Most countries are more restrictive about speech than the US (I'm European myself, so I know that we have more laws limiting speech) but this specific line probably wouldn't cross the line where it would be considered incitement (and therefore punishable).
However, Reddit is not a "public forum", it is a privately-owned website, and Reddit admins are not government agents. So saying this in a way that isn't couched in several layers of reported speech would most likely trigger action from the admins, comment removal, bans, and so on.
chrismetalrock@reddit
ive had warnings on my account for pretty lame things. i think im at strike two.
gerusz@reddit
I was banned for a few days for (jokingly) suggesting better tools for a DIY autolobotomy to a user who joked about it. Apparently according to the mods it is "threatening physical harm".
I think it also depends on the subreddit (the stick up their asses is much stronger when it comes to default subs) but yeah.
TheLordFool@reddit
Yea, anything that even has a hint of "violence" gets a ban. I'm on my second in as many months
LouDneiv@reddit
Lots of automatic censorship on Reddit, trust me bro, I've been banned enough times by robots to know!
terpsarelife@reddit
The cattle are lulled into submission via Dr pepper and bic macs. The cows are fat and happy. Once the cows are not so fat, they will be not so happy. Then the cows might come to the discussion board.
WildFlemima@reddit
The cows are losing weight right now. The cows are too tired and stressed and working too many jobs to come to the discussion board.
terpsarelife@reddit
have you considered pulling yourself up by your utters /s
traveledhermit@reddit
Like how I‘ve contributed to my 401k for decades while simultaneously understanding that my retirement years will be a Mad Max wasteland.
SeVenMadRaBBits@reddit
Yet if we were still living off the land the old fashioned way the planet would be just fine.
Hell if we'd switched to renewable energy and focused as a species together back when we discovered climate change, things would be just fine.
Unfortunately, old selfish money addicted humans run things (brought to you by capitalism).
HomoExtinctisus@reddit
Let us not lie to ourselves or others. "Renewable" energy is not renewable in the full sense as it is a marketing term. "Renewable" energy is 100% percent dependant on fossil fuels. "Renewable" energy imposes a large habit destruction penalty on it's construction and use. It is complete nonsense to look at a solar panel and think it doesn't emit CO2 so it must be super good and solves our problems.
If the entire world had "switched to renewable energy" decades ago, we would not have "solved" climate change. We would have set down on a different, but equally vast, industrial civilization. This effort would have still released enormous volumes of CO₂ and caused massive habitat destruction and still been dependent on fossil fuels for its maintenance and continued growth.
clovis_227@reddit
Renewable energy is fossil fuel-dependant because the whole production chain for everything is dependant on it, from transporting to manufacturing. Obviously the whole thing has to be rearranged and our consumption levels brought to more realistic levels, but there is nothing inherent in a solar panel that says that its production has to be dependant on fossil fuels.
HomoExtinctisus@reddit
It would be trivially easy to prove me wrong. All you have to do is show me these "Precambrian rabbits" solar panels. You are substituting an aspirational fantasy for perceived reality. There are far too many energy intensive dependencies in the chain for self sustaining renewable infrastructure. Never been done at scale. Not one single example yet belief is maintained in same way religious beliefs are.
Low_Complex_9841@reddit
> "Renewable" energy is 100% percent dependant on fossil fuels.
In profit-driven global society as of today? yes. It still interesting even if a bit theoretical question if no fossil fuel using but technological civ still possible. Visit Atomic Rockets and Worldbuilding stackexchange if you want to know more! Chile FTW?
aJoshster@reddit
I work in an energy/environment related field and find it even worse than presented here. My careers work is being actively flushed down the toilet by this insane regressive administration. We are tracking kWh saved, carbon reduction goals, and sustainability targets in a country that is incentivizing a return to carbon based fuels. It would take another 20 years to get back to the baseline we were at just two years ago in policy and manufacturing processes, and I know we don't have that long. I go to work and feel doomed.
Bubis20@reddit
Always baffles me how few degenerates can destroy something polished over decades in a few steps. More so how we allow it...
Idiocracy by Monday, Venus by Tuesday...
Furseal469@reddit
Also work in an environment field and get to go to work to find the best conservation measures for a species that only has a few hundred individuals left, living with a degraded and fragmented habitat that would take decades to regenerate and climate change will tear down those efforts anyway. Effectively I go to work to document a species extinction. Its bleak.
It's only one of my projects but they all have a similar feel to them. I still need to get paid like everyone else, so I keep going to work and try and sit aside the feelings of impending doom.
broccolimemes@reddit
What if administrative failures like closure of hormuz and tariffs continue and actually, measurably do more to solve sustainability issues then a prior administration that is consider competent?
aJoshster@reddit
It won't.
pseudohim@reddit (OP)
Worked in a similar field. Know just how you feel. Sending hugs from afar.
Eager_PurpleOverdose@reddit
Are you in USA? I'm so sorry, that probably feels devastating.
TheEPGFiles@reddit
Don't be tricked, this is what the billionaires and politicians chose for us, this is how they want us all to die.
claudedusk8@reddit
This. And all those things we have to rent.
EarthBear@reddit
I quit a year ago. I’m not going back. I’m going to use up all my savings and just not do it. I’m done. Life is to be lived.
James_Fortis@reddit
Love this. if I could add one thing:
Non-human animals deserve our consideration, too. They've been here with us from the beginning and it's not their fault their home is being bulldozed and set ablaze, while being enslaved at the same time. It's high time we change the way we interact with our planet and our fellow earthlings.
overseas4now@reddit
Some people are angry/sad when the are getting exploited by more powerful groups. The billionaires are exploiting the masses, who they view as livestock rather than individuals. The masses are upset but then breed, exploit and kill animals for pleasure. The billionaires look at the average person the same way the average person looks at a cow or sheep. As a resource to be exploited.
Omal15@reddit
No because chicken tendies and bacon
AngusScrimm---------@reddit
We have unlimited bad karma coming our way in the near future.
SeVenMadRaBBits@reddit
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03263@reddit
Couldn't agree more
Regular-Ad-9303@reddit
I found this dissonance between my job and reality particularly jarring become collapse aware during COVID.
I've never enjoyed working, even though on the grand scale of things, my current job, while unfulfilling, is better than many (in terms of stress levels). I work for the federal government (Canadian) and earlier in the pandemic we were told to work remotely. I never even considered that my job could be done remotely. But it could, and although it took some adapting, it went well, and we worked more efficiently. And, as scary as it was becoming collapse aware, I was relatively happy in my work from home bubble. More time with my husband and son, less stress. (Admittedly I was very fortunate - I'm not trying to ignore the many horrors of the pandemic.)
But, our employer mandated partial return to the office - first 2 days/week, then 3. At a time when COVID was still with us. At a time when the cost of living had skyrocketed. At a time when the cost savings of remote work was the only thing allowing some to afford their homes (which many could only afford far from the office, and now were faced with inhumanely long commutes, to go to work to take Teams calls). And for what? To support corporate landlords and the status quo? I joined the public service initially because I didn't want to work for evil corporations - I wanted to work for the betterment of Canadians - but I realized that my employer didn't care much about the average Canadian and was beholden to corporate interests. It made (and still makes) me so angry. They talk about things like employee well being and caring for the environment, but they are just catch phrases. Their actions go completely against their words.
And now with the U.S. and Israel's attack on Iran, when the International Energy Agency, of which Canada is a member, is recommending work from home be used to reduce demand for oil, what does my employer (who should be setting an example for the private sector to follow) do? They continue with their plan to increase in office presence to 4 days/week this summer. Best they can do is take 10 cents/litre off gasoline taxes, to make life more affordable for Canadians. And I'm supposed to be grateful.
Fragrant_Tailor9609@reddit
It’s odd that a pandemic that killed mostly old people was motivating for wfh, but crushing climate disaster that is destroying the world does nothing to move the needle.
Regular-Ad-9303@reddit
Yes! Honestly, I was shocked how much things shut down earlier in the pandemic. I just didn't think we would shut down parts of the economy like that - actually put people before profit. I mistakenly started having a bit of hope in humanity. But then it went on too long and it was like - nope, back to normal for you. We don't care if COVID is still killing people. We don't care about how the status quo is killing our souls and the planet. It was a real let down, but at the same time not surprising.
cool_side_of_pillow@reddit
In 2026 I really do feel like I need to sever my brain so that I have 'work mode' and 'everything else mode', like the AppleTV series. I need to do this in order to function. We don't discuss politics or climate or the macro economic struggles, or wars. We talk about KPIs and 'flywheels'. It's depressing as sh*t. Not that I expect to talk about the other things in the workplace, but it all just seems so pointless lately. So deeply deeply pointless. I want to go outside and listen to the birds. Because the insects are disappearing and the birds are dying and the forests will burn their homes down.
KaleidoscopeSea605@reddit
Same. In the restroom before starting work, I look at myself in the mirror and put on my role. My character is a professional in a world that isn’t dying. It’s exhausting.
Konradleijon@reddit
I hate work
prudent__sound@reddit
Fair. I guess I'm lucky that I like my job, but I hate full-time work. You'll never convince me we need to be chained to our workplace for 40+ hours per week at the expense of our health, relationships, and actual passions and hobbies.
CntonAhigurh@reddit
Oh you think any of this was/is for you? My sweet summer child
No-Cost-1764@reddit
Wdym?
CntonAhigurh@reddit
The first bit of what this person said. About having to work at the expense of his/her body. There are still so many people that think that this system we live in should be fair for the people in the system. It has never been ‘for’ the people at the bottom. The reason we are here is to consume and produce new meat for the machines of capital.
marioncrepes@reddit
The bargaining commenters are worse than even the denial commenters
SomeRandomGuydotdot@reddit
Easy for you to say, you stole my last fucking xanax.
Just kidding. XoXO
bristlybits@reddit
i love my Work. i also despise work.
Prestigious_Wrap_932@reddit
I hate the work I perform that allows me to acquire the most currency; Sitting at a desk pushing buttons and managing staff.
I love doing other forms of “work” like habitat restoration and science education, but I can’t afford to take the 50%+ pay cut that I’d get hit with if I retrained to be a park ranger or teacher.
bristlybits@reddit
the "other forms" are not "work"
Prestigious_Wrap_932@reddit
Teaching isn’t work? Manual labor isn’t work? Prototype development isn’t work?
Does your brain work?
bristlybits@reddit
those are work but not Work. you know? joy more than profit. you and i both know there is a difference between a useful endeavor you gladly do, and a useless activity you must do
Kootenay4@reddit
I work in stream habitat restoration, and have pretty much given up on ever owning a house or starting a family at this point because it’s simply not possible on this income (well maybe if you were very frugal, but then there’s the complete lack of job security).
Prestigious_Wrap_932@reddit
I’m sorry to hear that! It’s such important work that needs to be done, but because it doesn’t generate profit for the idle investment class it’s massively undervalued and doesn’t pay a living wage in a modern Western capitalist society.
Thank you for following your passion and helping the planet!
03263@reddit
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Not passing judgement, I have the same problem as you. Just food for thought.
ContessaChaos@reddit
Timothy in da house!
Prestigious_Wrap_932@reddit
I don’t care about or need money. By myself I could be happy living in a tuff shed in the woods.
But I have children and a family that I need to provide for, so I sacrifice my happiness to do the thing that will help them the most.
GalaxyPatio@reddit
That's the part that gets me the most. The stuff that I've enjoyed doing, and the stuff that I've enjoyed doing that meaningfully contributes to the community didn't pay me enough to live, and still has garbage wages.
Prestigious_Wrap_932@reddit
That’s because the only metric that matters in contemporary American capitalism is each labor unit’s ability to generate profits for the investment class.
A job that meaningfully contributes to the local community in a sustainable and affordable way generates zero revenue for investors. A job that results in the slaughter of innocent children or the destruction of life savings generates large amounts of revenue.
Capitalism is a death cult that rewards participants for sociopathy and destruction.
roytay@reddit
I'm retired. So I can commit more fully to the hopelessness. I save some enthusiasm for my daughter who's headed to college in the fall.
loco500@reddit
Have you heard of the wonderful life of a r/NEET...
LowOne11@reddit
I hate that I can’t do the work of passion that I want to, no matter how hard I tried, nothing was good enough in the grind. I hate paying income taxes to the very system I despise, that lied to me. No matter what I do, I am red-taped, gaslit and more is expected of me. I am so done with This American Life.
No_Locksmith_6375@reddit
fuck work
bristlybits@reddit
abolish work
Effective-Ebb-2805@reddit
And it hates you. Think about it... work is so bad that they have to pay you to do it. Don't ever believe anyone that tries to sell you the "hard work is noble" bullshit and the notion of a "good work ethic". Hard work doesn't enoble shit! The only good thing about it is the satisfaction of knowing that you're able to do it. Beyond that point, it only kills your soul and makes you dumber. And the people that glorify the "good work ethic" are usually the same ones that don't have to work hard (or at all) because YOU and ME are doing it for them... the goddamn rich.
Psychological-Sport1@reddit
planet was dying back in 1980 when I was 20 and you were expected to work and if you talked about the planet weirdness stuff, that was a good reason to be fired the next day……so, whatever…..and those were the days before the internet and personal computers etc
jbond23@reddit
Read Limits to Growth in the mid 70s in my early 20s. I've been waiting for the axe to fall ever since. While simultaneously having a career and a family.
When you get up in the morning, you still have to work out what to do that day.
Leave no trace
Kiss_of_Cultural@reddit
Unemployment humble brag be like
loco500@reddit
Carry on with your quiet protest r/NEET brethren...
True-Vast-3731@reddit
🫡
jadelink88@reddit
I sometimes have to be reminded of the fact the most of the readers here are still way more inside that system than I ever was, and often with no understanding of how to make food, shelter, anything, without a corporate system.
My week of internment this week will be pleasant by comparison, which is a sobering thought.
03263@reddit
Even those of us stuck in this system need to be reminded that we're not alone. There's such a taboo against talking about any of this, it's easy to think you're the only person you know who's even slightly aware of what's happening.
Why people are so afraid to talk to each other and share beliefs, I do not know.
jadelink88@reddit
I should probably get myself together in my week of confinement and write something for western people wanting to break out of the system. A few people might find it cheering office reading. Some might even make some use of it.
03263@reddit
Go for it, I save and archive all kinds of info and articles. Even if I can't use it now I keep an offline copy for future reference.
Evening_Grass_8073@reddit
There's three realities at play in any one society: accepted reality, unspoken reality, and fictitious reality. Right now the third is being abused to keep the wall between the first and second larger than ever, and most people are too tired from information overload and just getting through the day to call it out.
bristlybits@reddit
systems of oppression create a fear of connection among the oppressed.
Archeolops@reddit
Save the children by not having any.
loco500@reddit
bUT me want to be a modern gengHiS khan minus the violence...
DocFGeek@reddit
"Interesting game. The only winning move is not to play."
abu_nawas@reddit
Yes please think
Distinguishedflyer@reddit
this is the same corporate bullshit it purports to address:
"Collapse2050...a passion project to explore humanity’s frightening future - a topic traditionares..."
This reads like some medium corporate well paid office worker's idea of reality. It completely discounts incredible numbers of people who can't find a job, can't stay housed, can't cope and are literally being starved out like the start of the WW2.
Microsoft teams getting you down while you have some vague intimation of collapse in the year 2050? WOW. Hard hittung journalism.
Why don't she rename this blog collapse 2026 and understand how people are going under right now, not to say anything about the incredible numbers of people actually starving or under warfare at this time.
This is a bullshit article by somebody really insulated making a drama out of this shit reality with her picture of Sarah Connor "freedom fighter" typing fearlessly. Oh, btw Like and subscribe! Don't forget her patreon.
stop posting this crap here.
Intelligent-Ring5113@reddit
Well said lmfao.
augustschild@reddit
had to put on Dead Kennedys "At My Job" right after reading this...oof.
Syl@reddit
Why speak of dual consciousness and sit on your ass?
No. You can still speak up and try to organize at your work place, and try to elevate the class consciousness of your colleagues. Don't ruminate in your corner, bring the topic, talk about politics.
saul2015@reddit
great read
heavyraines17@reddit
Oof, this one hit hard.
BellaRyder2505@reddit
My only comfort and peace is death. And knowing that I didn't bring children into this nightmare. My conscious is clear. I just wanna try and have fun and live my life and do what I wanna do while I can.
Sol_Infra@reddit
Never understood how the breeders can continuously leave the world a worse place for their children while demanding respect and gratitude from their kids.
fukredditadm1n5@reddit
I know all the jobs are pointless and generate a lot of trash and micro plastics, but my job literally produce trash and we sell it to car manufacturers, I fuckin hate it 😤
RandomTO24@reddit
Is it just me or does the pfp of "Sarah Connor" look a little AI generated?
vinegar@reddit
Bro, I think that might not be her real name too.
Cool-Contribution-68@reddit
She's beautiful. But she's dying.
fortheloveoflentils@reddit
She’s sick but she’s hanging in there. Tell her, tell the kid.
littlepup26@reddit
Y'all have jobs??
ContessaChaos@reddit
We need battalions of Luigis.
eye_of_the_sloth@reddit
Yeah this is very relavant to me and it feels good to be recognized and not alone.
feeder4@reddit
Great work Sarah!
Melodic-Yoghurt7193@reddit
Cyberpunk 2027
Effective-Ebb-2805@reddit
2050? 2026...
RandomBoomer@reddit
If we knew for sure, it would be easier to make plans.
We're trying to map processes on a geological time scale to the span of human lives, and it's largely guesswork. A decade here or there is insignificant to the planet but has a helluva lot of impact on us personally.
If the date is 2040, I'll be gone by then anyway. If it's 2026, welp, sayonara.
Effective-Ebb-2805@reddit
You nailed it with bringing up the issue of scale! That is what most climate change deniers conveniently (for them) miss...including, of course, the dumbasses who make policy. Their greedy little heads are tuned to the completely imaginary rhythms of the stock market, banks, and quarterly dividends... They completely ignore the facts of Life on this planet and its rhythms... the ONLY rhythms that matter. The really real... as if the rules of the game of Monopoly superseded the laws that govern life on the planet.
HardNut420@reddit
Unpaid internships require work experience now 💀
03263@reddit
I keep doing it because that's what exists, that's what this civilization I'm supposed to be worried about dying is. I'm not worried about it actually, I don't want it to survive. It's just agonizingly slow watching it fall apart and trying to navigate the rest of my life while it does.
I'm caught between a strong desire to leave it and the reality that it's no longer, and not yet possible to live a sustainable lifestyle in a small self-sufficient community. It hasn't fallen apart enough for traditional human lifestyles to reestablish.
StatementBot@reddit
The following submission statement was provided by /u/pseudohim:
This Substack post by author Sarah Connor (ha ha) outlines the "intricate, exhausting adaptation of dual consciousness" most of us must perform in order to maintain our livelihoods while simultaneously harboring knowledge of the reality of its futility. This is directly related to /r/collapse, specifically the ways that we struggle to keep ourselves provisioned with food/shelter/necessary services amidst a system which is crumbling before our eyes - but one which will chastise or excommunicate us if we acknowledge that fact.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1suijko/the_planet_is_dying_but_youve_got_work_on_monday/oi101mu/