alt Hacker NewsIdk I’m getting pretty tired of pretending things are fine because line goes up. Feel like the first thing I’m going to do when we jump the proverbial shark (e.g. a military coup) is come onto this forum and say a big, fat told you so to the technocratic optimists siding with the fascists. Unfortunately the slide into a failed state (like Russia) is slow and depressing, rather than sudden and exciting.
I get your frustration, but from the perspective of anyone who's been alive for long enough, nothing you're saying is new and things genuinely used to be much much worse.
I'm not even 40 yet, but I guess that's old enough to have already seen this stuff completely cycle through.
If I had listened to people like you when I was a kid (before 9/11 even!), it's not an exaggeration to say that I would still be living with my parents and unemployed. I don't see how disengaging from society, being bitter, and squandering my time on earth helps anything. I'm not going to pretend I can change the world beyond writing stuff like I am right now, voting, etc. I don't have an ego like that and would never encourage anyone to either.