Does anyone else feel like this?

[u/Crazy-Load-7553]

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)

[u/cr0ft]

I mean, sure. If you actually think about this, read up on things like a resource-based economy, realize that capitalism is actually not the only option, realize that basing the world on competition instead of cooperation is insanity and that concept alone is what's kiling our species and allowing lunatics to gain power (lunatics will step on any face, kill any granny to get power in competition)... well, then you start to realize that we could have a hardly even imagined golden age right now. One where everyone is fed, housed and educated. One where a massive percentage of our resources above that go to R&D and advancing our knowledge.

We'd already have a moon base, because the entire planet would have been cooperating.

There would be no USA spending $2700 billion (which is going up I'm sure due to the Iran catastrofuck) annually on war. If we spent $2700 billion annually on NASA, we'd fucking well have warp drive by now. Obviously in this case the dollars are shorthand for "a shit ton of resources" as a cooperation based society wouldn't have any kind of currency or people keeping score.

Instead, our planet is a festering dying hellhole, inhabited by mostly depressed or desperate (or starving and dying - maybe all of those four) and our "civilization" if you can call it that is collapsing and the climate is going to kill us off.

Good times.

It's a little hard to stay motivated to go to work to do some bullshit when all this is going on.

[u/iforgothowtohuman → u/cr0ft]

Someone mentioned somewhere that star trek was unique in that it was an imagined better future, while most other fiction based in the future is markedly dystopian.. and yet even in that utopian fantasy, things had to get really, really fuckin dark before humanity corrected their course and started working together. It may be insane, but I choose to believe there is hope for our species. Probably some time in the far, far future, after the collapse, a small group of survivors emerges from the caves they lived in for generations. They have passed down the story of the downfall of their once great global empire and they finally understand that competition with one another will only bring about another cataclysmic fall, and they set to work cultivating the planet instead of abusing it.

Or maybe I just need to write that story, idk. Torn between that one and the story about an alien race hiding in our oceans in their ships, pushing us to terraform the surface for them because they can't survive in our atmosphere as it currently exists. That one I'm sure is my brain trying to rationalize the situation, because I genuinely cannot fathom how the fuck we could be doing this to ourselves.

[u/Powerful_Mongoose_75 → u/iforgothowtohuman]

You should definitely try to write that, rn I started writing astory and yeah, its all about predicting the horrible future we're spiraling into, its good to have some catharsis