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Are we all fucked? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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] 35 points 10 months ago (4 children)

You live in the most peaceful time in our species history (ignoring some flareups lately). The vast, vast majority of humanity lives in peace. Turn of the news and go touch some grass my dude.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It's true, but that makes it even more unsettling. Every petty crime gets blown up by media, every time something happens people start screaming that we need camera's and more cops on the streets. I used to work in the bar scene in our city twenty years ago. There were bar fights on a regular base. Now one bar fight in a year makes the national news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is Bill Hicks he was talking about in in the 80's

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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[–] Tyfud 0 points 10 months ago

The difference is that we're at a point in time with humanity where just one or two rogue humans could end it all.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

Great! Peace right before we all die to fucking climate change. That's nice.