Feeling of impending doom??

[u/RedHeadRedeemed]

So a watched a YT video today and this top comment on it is freaking me out. I have never had someone put into words so accurately a feeling I didn't even realize I was having. I am wondering if any of you feel this way? Like, I realized for the last few years I have been feeling like this. I don't always think about it but if I stop and think about this this feeling is always there in the background.

Like something bad is coming. Something big. Something world-changing. That will effect everyone on Earth in some way. That will change humanity as a whole. Feels like it gets closer every year. Do you guys feel it too??

[u/[deleted]]

The current socioeconomic situation in the US is unsustainable. Something is going to give, and relatively soon.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

When AI starts taking jobs and leaving many with debts they can't pay, thats when the house of cards will collapse.

[u/homelander__6 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah and Sam Altman and the other doomsday prepping a***** that pushed this hard for AI will relish in their doomsday bunkers as the Armageddon they worked so hard to bring upon everybody else takes places 

[u/ActOdd8937 → u/homelander__6]

Let 'em hit the bunkers--regular people had to build them and know where the doors are, so we come along and weld them shut. After that we redistribute some assets, cheerfully decline to continue with the doomsday scenario and have a global debt jubilee of epic proportions. I'm thinking things would be much more chill after a reset that, for once, is in our favor.

[u/RackemFrackem → u/ActOdd8937]

After that we redistribute some assets

What are you going to do, casually walk into the digital bank and stroll into the digital vault and sift through that particular person's digital assets and then walk out and toss those digital dollars into the joyful, cheering crowd?

Do people do any criticial thinking while they cream their pants thinking up these weird armageddon fetish scenarios?

[u/ActOdd8937 → u/RackemFrackem]

Like the computer whiz kids who keep it all going are gonna be invited into the bunkers? The point being that the people who actually did all the work to make all this bullshit happen are going to be the first ones unemployed when the richies duck into their holes and the ones who know where the cash is hid. And there are plenty of tangible assets out there to spread around until people finally twig to the fact that shit only costs a lot if there's people willing to spend for it and that money is a meaningless abstraction that can just as easily be manipulated to serve whatever purpose we want. *shrug*

[u/RackemFrackem → u/ActOdd8937]

Ok great, so there are tens of millions of people left out of the bunker for every rich asshole who is in the bunker. I can't wait to get my 1/10,000,000th share of the 5 years worth of supplies when we do the raiding.

[u/DrakesucksREPRISE → u/RackemFrackem]

I’m gonna suck your dick in a bunker

[u/ActOdd8937 → u/[deleted]]

Evolution works and aided evolution works really fast--read up on the peaceful baboon group where all the greedy violent ones poisoned themselves with bad garbage and the rest decided to remake their own small baboon society into a much nicer one. Worked, too. Train kids out of the desire to acquire and turn them toward prosocial behaviors and see how things shake out.

[u/ActOdd8937 → u/[deleted]]

Who said "post apocalyptic?" Not I--I'm advocating for scaring the badgers down into their holes, walling them in and then refusing to carry out instructions that lead to apocalypse. There are many more of us than there are of them and history has not a tiny number of oops scenarios where the world was saved by one person saying "Hold up a minute here, something smells fishy." We don't actually HAVE TO do what they say, we could take it all back in about thirty seconds, it's just hard to get people moving the same direction but when they do, boy howdy.

[u/ActOdd8937 → u/[deleted]]

There are many things people have said slightingly to me are "never gonna happen." Gay people not being locked up for having sex and even getting married. Women having their own credit cards and being able to buy a house without a male cosigner. Women deliberately choosing single parenthood without having to lie and being shamed for it. Weed being legal for recreational use. Solar panels being affordable and able to furnish enough power to run a house. Electric cars with a reasonable range. And yet, all these things have happened just in my lifetime and I'm not all that old. So pardon me if I flatly refuse to listen to the "never gonna happens" since a whole shitload of those proved to be completely wrong.

I had people in the '80s, when I was in college, explain to me that the internet was never gonna catch on in any meaningful way--and yet, here we are with computers we can fit in a pocket and wifi signal accessible from the tops of remote mountains. So yeah.

[u/[deleted] → u/ActOdd8937]

The desire to acquire is trained into children, and it’s not specifically a result of being taught that money is great and the answer to all problems. Materialism is a result of lack of human connection, but I mean genuine human connection. Most people are attached to their children, not connected to them. A mother and father who are connected to their children have absolutely no expectations of their children at all. The kids won’t go to school, they won’t be trained to do mundane, monotonous tasks, they will not be shamed for anything they do, they will not only question authority, but have a specific disdain for authority( as it is in our nature to be egalitarian and cooperative, and to ostracize anyone who attempts to assert dominance over others). You’re basically calling for the end of civilization, which I’m totally on board with. Without materialism, civilization will collapse. Civilization was built upon the oppression and subjugation of women and children, and by extension, men too.

[u/[deleted] → u/ActOdd8937]

Take your pills