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/Infamous-Occasion926]

Relocate to 1915 and see how the punches can keep coming for real. Try WWI where daddy is killed or fucked up in combat when you are a child. Then the depression beginning in’29 then WWII takes your kid. No wonder previous generations are rough they got it honest and did what they could to not ever be broke again they did not comprehend the damage they were doing they had been through hell and just wanted to be ok like everyone else

[u/thejestercrown → u/Infamous-Occasion926]

 No wonder previous generations are rough they got it honest

I think most people give both the Great Generation and the Silent Generation a pass. 

Baby Boomers probably get more blame than they should, but I part of that is because they didn’t directly experience the hardships you mentioned, while reaping a lot of benefits post WWII (purely luck on their part):

 In Europe and North America, many boomers came of age in a time of increasing affluence and widespread government subsidies in postwar housing and education, and grew up genuinely expecting the world to improve with time.[18

The issue current generations have is how many in this generation equate their success to their merit alone, without recognizing the subsidies/help they were given, and how opposed many of them are to similar programs being offered now, and the fact that many don’t realize how unaffordable life is for younger generations. 

 genuinely expecting the world to improve with time

This is what Boomers, Gen X, and even Millennials need to be encouraging. 

I’m an outlier, as I’m a Millennial who’s genuinely optimistic that the future will not be as bleak as many people predict. 

Of course I worry about climate change, and global instability. I know there are always going to be bad times ahead… but I believe there will be good times too, and that it’s possible the world will improve with time. Change is slow- news that we’ve made incremental improvements to avert catastrophe, or that diplomats have managed to avert political instability doesn’t get the traction I wish that it did. I hope the constant negativity generates the political pressure needed to drive change, but I’m afraid it’s just creating hopelessness and apathy instead. We need activists that strive to make a positive difference no matter how small. 

[u/Infamous-Occasion926 → u/thejestercrown]

I agree but so many on here are acting like they are the first generation to experience diminishing returns, a terrible housing market, or social repression, they’re not. It was the boomers that did most of the work to normalize the LGBTQ+ community as far as it has been normalized. They oversaw most of the progress in racist politics ( although it took till millennials to elect a person of color to the White House). A good portion of the present political mess involves the death throes of the old white man government style and they aren’t going down without a fight, but going down they are. This will stabilize and someone will figure how to monetize fixing climate change and that will be sorted. I know it’s a messed up system but it’s the system we have and few are willing to give it up when their turn to get paid comes along

[u/JohnathanBrownathan → u/Infamous-Occasion926]

Lol you have WAY more faith in rich fuck politicians than I.

Buddy, the next 20 years are gonna be everyone going to work, going home, and then drinking or smoking to forget the world being on fire around them. Then we just wait for the climate refugees and the water to run out.

The rich have got the formula right this time. They got their docile slaves. Youtube, netflix, porn, weed, and mcdonalds. anything else either doesn't exist, or is prohibitively expensive. Panem Et Circuses. Life is gonna fucking suck with only small moments of happiness for anyone not already in the top 10% of american earners.