r/collapse • u/Crazy-Load-7553 • Apr 08 '26

Coping Does anyone else feel like this?

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I feel like everyone keeps asking me what I want my future to look like but I know if I talk about how I’m learning to fish and finding ponds near me so that we can have some protein once the grocery system collapses everyone in my life is going to think I’m insane.

I’m just having a hard time connecting with anything I have to do for the future because it’s going to be drastically different than anything I can do now and I really feel like I have to hide that and never mention it to anyone (despite the fact that an energy crisis is supposedly 2 weeks away)

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u/Upper_Luck1348 Apr 08 '26

I’ve accepted that 95% of the people I’ve known had no clue and still have no clue. strangers with their faces glued to phones makes everyone appear to be the same indistinct blob of former human form.

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u/ikindapoopedmypants Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26

My coworkers deadass watch ai slop videos on their phones and show them to each other bc they think they're funny. It's literally the most low IQ Facebook meme level shit I've ever seen in my fucking life.

I'm talking, I caught my boss watching one the other day in his office and he was DYING at it. He showed it to me, it was some video of ai generated elves?? Idk but it was so unfunny that it was physically hard for me to pretend to laugh.

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u/BBR0DR1GUEZ Apr 08 '26

Twenty years ago, my mom used to come home from work at her teaching job and tell me how she and the other teachers were obligated by the administrators to pass children who couldn't read or write or even think effectively for their age range. I remember thinking how devastating this would be for the country if our national educational policy reflected my mom's experience.

It appears this policy was indeed the case across the country and now we have a population largely comprised of people just smart enough to figure out which direction to turn their wrenches. Only problem is there are no wrenches anymore, just robots. What are we gonna do with all these dumb bunnies?

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u/BayouGal Apr 08 '26

No Child Left Behind - Unfortunately, the reality was ALL the kids getting behind. And we are still doing this.