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Are we all fucked? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm worried for the world. All I've been thinking about is WW3 and this shit makes me want to vomit. I can't even smoke weed anymore without having a near panic attack. I feel unmotivated. I wake up and immediately just want to go back to bed. I'm not trying to spread fear but the Doomsday clock is 90 seconds till midnight, during the Cuban missile crisis, it was 7 minutes before midnight. Can we just have one day of fucking peace? Can everyone just stop for one day and enjoy one day of peace?

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Don't worry about WW3. The more inevitable thing that will destroy us is climate change.

But seriously, why worry about stuff you can't change? If they launch the nukes, then you'll be dead and so it won't matter if you worried about it or not. So you might as well just not worry.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Activism would help very little, but at least it isn't fatalism.

[–] Kyrgizion 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't think parent poster meant to espouse nihilism. Rather just acceptance. You can still find meaning in living day to day if worrying about the future becomes debilitating.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

This. Seeing one person who you helped smile makes you happy, even if it may not solve all the worlds problems. Volunteering has always brought me much more joy and helped me deal with existential dread better than ignoring the news or any other change I can make

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Public service announcement that the OG nihilists like Nietzsche were actually pretty hyped about the meaninglessness of the universe. The idea was that it gave you more freedom to live life and find your own meaning, like you said.

[–] teft 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I’ll add to his anxiety.

The nukes probably won’t immediately kill most of us. Only the people living in city centers or near military installations or government facilities will be killed by the nukes. The rest of us will starve as the nuclear winter sets in and kills off our food sources.

[–] wioum 7 points 6 months ago

Thanks, I hate it 🥲

[–] Kyrgizion 2 points 6 months ago

In any type of end of the world scenario, the only groups capable of long term survival will be military.

What's the use in cultivating an entire prepper's paradise if someone else will just waltz in and take over? Even if you are armed, you're not going up against trained and heavily equipped opposition.

[–] Ohnobro 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because it will hurt the entire time you are dying lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Worrying about it in advance doesn't change how much it will hurt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I mean, you could go all Schopenhauer and prepare for suicide.