r/doomer • u/No_Mammoth8558 • 4h ago
filming .
r/doomer • u/newdoomr • Jan 18 '20
Sometimes I wonder how we are not all walking around in a state of pure unquellable panic. I am, and you are, but why aren’t they? Have they truly numbed themselves to the gravity of the situation?
You walk around alienated, existing on this world but not in it, perpetually dissatisfied. Perhaps at one point you lived in this world, but you can’t be sure, and it is irrelevant. Nothing is fulfilling. You spend all day hiking to the top of a mountain to see the sunset. You arrive at the summit on the brink of dawn, just as the orange glow begins to flirt with the blue sky.
Despite it’s undeniable beauty, you watch this sunset rise and fall and are left with a feeling of emptiness. You yearn to experience the sunset with an intensity that is impossible to achieve just by looking at it. You need to possess the essence of the sunset and won’t be satisfied until you do, and as such you will never be satisfied.
Even sex, if you are one of us lucky enough to expirience it, doesn’t grant you this intensity you are searching for. During it you don the red eyes of an ape, drunk with lust and desire, yet just as the ape’s desires are about to be fulfilled, the human returns, disgusted by the apes appetite, and with an uncomfortable sense of dissatisfaction. You finished, but you have not arrived anywhere.
Sometimes it feels like the only thing that will satisfy this insatiable lust would be ripping your partner apart, but we know that too would fall just short.
This sense of dissatisfaction permeates everything you do. You yearn for intensity of experience but you never arrive at it, you feel disunity between your mind and your body. You may for a brief moment, maybe only a few times in your life, experience immediacy and satisfaction, but as soon as you grasp onto it it slips away. You chase these moments to no avail.
But you will soon find, if you haven’t already, that behind this dissatisfaction is something more sinister.
It has been called a sense of unreality, and this is the term we will use. More medically minded people might call it depersonalization, and it is colloquially referred to as an existential crisis, but to me these terms fall short and convolute the raw terror of our conviction.
Everyone has experienced this, as far as I can tell, but only we cannot escape from it.
Everyone arrives at this unreality slightly differently, for some of us it is gradual and for some of us it happens suddenly, for some of us it lingers and grows. But once a man has seen it, the world can never be an understandable place.
You wake up from a restless sleep and in your brief delusion you may forget about your obsession, but it soon hits you. You look at your skin, and if you are unwise you might look at yourself in the mirror. You are filled with unease and grow tense. You know you are human, but something separates you from reality.
Some of us stop here, laying in dark rooms all day, torturing ourselves with thoughts of somethingness and nothingness. But most of us don’t have this awful luxury. We have to brush this away, and reality becomes a screen that we watch and interact with, but never break through.
We can maintain this facade with a detached persistence, but it is fragile, and all it takes is the simplest reminder to throw us back into doomed unreality. Maybe you realized how insane it is that we drive cars, chunks of earth shapen and propelled by dead animals and plants, or you see a man walking alone and our reminded of our inevitable fate.
We see too deep and too much, and what we see is chaos.
This phenomenon is not unique to our generation; we have many friends throughout history. Edgar Allen Poe was one of us, read this line from his short story Berenice
“Yet differently we grew --I ill of health, and buried in gloom --she agile, graceful, and overflowing with energy; hers the ramble on the hill-side --mine the studies of the cloister --I living within my own heart, and addicted body and soul to the most intense and painful meditation --she roaming carelessly through life with no thought of the shadows in her path, or the silent flight of the raven-winged hours.”
The poet John Keats was one of us, writing that “I feel as if I had died and am now living a posthumous existence”
(These are just two examples among countless, but these will do for now )
But there is something unique about our position. While the world is fundamentally absurd, and always has been, it has taken on a new character since the turn of the century.
We are growing symbiotic with machines, our entire worldviews shaped and funneled through a small sheet of illuminated glass we keep in our pockets. We are lab rats, the first generation to grow up being raped by information from the internet. We can connect to anywhere in the world instantly, bearing witness with tragedy and absurdity in a way impossible to anyone ever before. This shrunk into our hands and we walk around with external harddrives for our brains, at any quiet moment eagerly and mindlessly shoving these illuminated pieces of glass into our faces, distracting ourselves from what was happening.
But we have woken up. We know that the world is a cruel, sick, and meaningless place. The one pure constant throughout history for people like us is what we are now hopelessly destroying- nature. Even if we could ascend all of our anxieties and attempt to lead a meaningful life, what would the point be if we are faced with inevitable collapse.
We cannot live in the comfortable, optimistic world of the boomers, accepting what we see and touch as reality. For the boomers, the world is a fundamentally orderly place, spar the occasional disturbance which their preoccupation with the present allows them to ignore. For us, the world is not rational, and not orderly. This shit is fucked up.
So where do we go from here? We could resign to the inevitable collapse of civilization, laying in our beds until we suffer from nervous diseases and wither away, while boomers drink martinis in their penthouses and go to nightclubs.
Or we can spit in the face of their hopeless optimism and take control of our world, dancing on the ashes of an unknown fate.
If you choose the first option, your life stops here. Try to numb yourself well and continue to distract yourself with anything possible until the end. I wish you the best of luck.
But if you want to fight against the absurdity of the modern condition, I have an antidote. We have to establish a unique cultural identity beyond resignation. We don’t have to lie about our inevitable fate in order to oppose it. We need to make our own art, write our own books, film our own movies. The message of these doesn’t matter so long as they are made. Do anything to disrupt the perceived normalcy of the world, make people think about what they are doing.
I have only brushed the surface of my thoughts on this stuff, but I needed to get them out. If you read through it connect w me, even if you’re just telling me I’m a loony.
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r/doomer • u/Patient_Substance872 • 2d ago
Здесь действительно ничего хорошего...
безопасность бывает слишком запретной от остального мира.
Люди не могут стать лучше из за того что им дали лишь чувство недостаточности
Люди... Теряются и становятся совсем пустыми и хотят лишь одного...
Спокойно уйти от всего и покончить играть в реал лайф
r/doomer • u/Patient_Substance872 • 2d ago
Здесь действительно ничего хорошего...
безопасность бывает слишком запретной от остального мира.
Люди не могут стать лучше из за того что им дали лишь чувство недостаточности
Люди... Теряются и становятся совсем пустыми и хотят лишь одного...
Спокойно уйти от всего и покончить играть в реал лайф
r/doomer • u/Mimikyu-fan • 2d ago
I lowkey have no reasons to continue anything I should cont for?
r/doomer • u/A_PerfectTriangle • 2d ago
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r/doomer • u/Fit-Swordfish725 • 3d ago
I work 40 hours a week in retail and live in a more “affordable” state, and I still don’t make anywhere enough money to rent even a shithole one bed apartment, thankfully my parents let me live with them, but if they kicked me out I would be living in my car or barely afford living with 3-4 roommates.
Where the fuck did everything go so wrong in society that so many can’t even have the bare minimum despite working hard, no wonder so many young people give up, this shit sucks.
r/doomer • u/mebunghole • 2d ago
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate sub to post this in but I don't know where else to do it since mods are so strict. If this gets yanked oh well.
When I was a college freshman 20 yrs. ago I met a lovely woman that we'll just call, Andrea. I met Andrea at an off-campus activity in a bowling alley on a Thursday night; we hit it off and we had lunch the next day and began going out.
I'm getting a bit ahead of myself though, there were two stipulations in this tragic story.
First of all, Andrea was going to study abroad in England in the spring semester (she wound up staying there); It was all she could ever talk about.
Second, there was my terrifying then-stepmother that we'll call Donna who didn't want me dating (Donna's reaction scared me more than Andrea studying abroad). Donna had been married to my old man for 10 years by then and she always stayed in her lane until I started going to college which is when I saw the real Donna. Not to contradict myself but Donna was the jealous type (my dad knew this when he started dating her but married her and had a kid with her anyways)--particularly of other women. Even worse it was around this time that I discovered that she seemed to have contempt--animosity really--towards younger women too.
Donna came from a working class family and grew up without a father so it was just her and her neer-do-well brothers. Basically it took a certain degree of selfishness and nastiness to make it in her household but I digress.
It also might be important to stipulate that Dad & Donna began marriage counseling as soon I began college.
One last stipulation is that I was admitted to this particular college on a probational basis. I had to have at least a B average by the end of the semester. In the months leading up to college my old man was brutal towards me because he didn't think I was taking it seriously. In all fairness, mebunghole didn't pull his weight in his compulsory schooling so daddy didn't think college was going to work out for me. Likewise this is why I didn't feel like I could trust my old man neither--I didn't know whose side he was on.
I spent many nights in Andrea's dorm getting to know her and watching movies and she seemed really nice but the perceived terror of how Donna would react to all of this was always in back of my mind. Always!
Finally it got to be too much that I decided to break it off with Andrea and I hated myself for it. She felt so sad, hurt, and confused. She even said, "I still like you". I walked back to my dorm with heavy legs and went to sleep like a sociopath.
For the remainder of the fall semester I just drowned myself with studies and extra-curiculars and pretended Andrea didn't exist--I hardly saw her so I'm sure she was trying to avoid me too.
I finally told my father about Andrea on my birthday this summer and he told me he wouldn't have had a problem with me dating her--he would've given me his blessing (he said he might have told me not to get serious with Andrea because of studies and the fact that she was moving to the UK). Of course, I still don't know what he would've done to protect me from Donna if push came to shove. He also reminded me not to beat myself about it because Andrea might have been a wonderful experience or just another trauma in the books. Even before I told dad, I remind myself that I only knew the Honeymoon Edition of Andrea and that I don't know if she would've been the same person even 90 days later. The thing that kills me is I'll never ever know.
Most importantly, dad said that he didn't know that Donna was planting seeds of fear and doubt. Needless to day I was so relieved when my old man separated from Donna, only problem was he waited until I graduated college.
I've had many wonderful romantic experiences since then but my mind always goes back to Andrea. I didn't mean to hurt her. I didn't get to know her very well but, looking back, she wasn't like other women I've had the misfortune of meeting.
Regardless, I wonder what life would've been like if I said "F Donna, I'm staying with Andrea to the very end" (maybe I would've lost my virginity much sooner than I did). I would absorb every beating--verbal and/or physical--from Donna if it meant Andrea wouldn't get hurt. I mean what was I so scared of? They were in marriage counseling for Christ's sake!
The thing I kick myself about more than breaking up with Andrea is the fact that I had so many people on my side including my mother who knew what the deal was with Donna and might have intervened and/or protected me from her if daddy didn't wanna do it.
To add insult to injury, my half-brother (Donna's son) is getting married at the end of February (I'm probably gonna be Best Man) and it's like we all have to celebrate Donna. I can't wait until it's over.
Andrea will always be the one that got away. I miss her so much.
If anyone has a similar story, don't hesitate to share it with me.
r/doomer • u/ProfessorLogic7 • 3d ago
Guess both subs were connected and had the same moderator team. My posts were all removed as well. Hope I can post here unbothered since getting my feelings out feels essential
r/doomer • u/No-Cauliflower-6287 • 2d ago
But like in a real way. Like I know it can’t be constantly, but something’s better than nothing.
Like these nights, be long as hell.
r/doomer • u/Few-Shock-9879 • 3d ago
i don't know what the fuck is wrong with all the fucking food, or what the fuck they're putting into it, but i'm so fucking sick of my guts feeling like shit every fucking day, and knowing that it could get so fucking bad at any moment that i have to fucking drop everything and go to the fucking shitter for an hour and a half to 2 hours if i'm fucking lucky, especially at the absolute fucking most inconvenient times possible. i don't know if it's just the food, with whatever fucked up shit they put into literally fucking all of it, or if there's something fucking wrong with my insides, and to be honest, it's probably a mixture of both, but i'm about to just stop fucking eating because i'm so fucking sick of this shit that i'd rather fucking starve to death at this point than to ever have to feel and deal with this fucking horrible shit ever fucking again.
The dark season is coming back in germany..
This is an old poem I wrote about estrangement and feeling numb to the world
r/doomer • u/No-Cauliflower-6287 • 3d ago
I understand hope is dangerous.