The Doom Thread: Gloom, Despair, Agony

Cheer up everybody...we've had a Friday 13th 2 Mos in a row. We may hit bottom any day now!

 

We're all Ozzie Smith now!

 

Where did you park your car?

 

It’s getting pretty warm in here.

 

Just watched the new doc on Netflix: Manosphere

I could post this on almost every thread here. We're so so ********ed. Seriously.

I will never be able to square that circle. Ever.

 

It's pretty bad, a bunch of roided up bros, kind of like Jersey Shore taken to the next level. I guess lots of young men are aspiring gullible misogynist wannabees, so it's a sad commentary in a world buffet of doom.

 

Think about the environment many of them grew up in. A crumbling economy. A crumbling education system. No healthcare, no social support, no hope.

A media landscape trying to turn them into the worst versions of themselves. Directly feeding the , on purpose, garbage.

And only one political party attempting to "help" them (we know they really aren't but at least they get a shout-out).

Yeah the future is bleak af.

 

Red sky this morning....take cover!

 

I've never been a Trump doomer. I always think that even when things are going backwards, it's a temporary situation if we work to improve things. There's lots of problems, and I do point them out, but recognizing a problem is the first step to fixing it. Hope is a liberal value. Hope is the fuel of the downtrodden. Hope is punk.

I'm a doomer now. It really looks like we are going somewhere scary.

 

Don't do it! That's what they want you to be. Have you tried 80's synth-pop? We mustn't succumb. Fvck them.

 

You're right. I feel better now.

 

I got into reading existentialist philosophy when I was angsty teenager in the 90s, thinking somehow that that was a crappy time to exist. I thought I then mostly grew out of existentialism.

But in the last 10 years, I've been going back to the French existentialists like Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus (and Arendt as well, but she doesn't fit as well into the category). I think they can collectively be read as trying to figure out why a whole lot of people thought fascism was a good idea and how to exist in a world, not only where lots of people are cool with fascism, but also where the fascists might actually win and dominate the world.

And 80s synth pop is good too.

 

If things are going to get bad then survival becomes a mission, and part of surviving is keeping your spirits up. If watching 500 hours of Time Team has taught me anything, it's that the rubble of one civilization can be used to build the next. As a wise man once said, if there's something left in this world, start again.

 

Survival in today's world requires multi-tasking. We can be full of dread and angst about the end of the world as we know it and get outside and enjoy the natural beauty that surrounds us and enjoy the music of a simpler time, back before we had cell phones and the internet to make us all a bunch of ruminating depressives, and we can remind the youngsters among us that we were once better and we can be better again. See y'all in the music thread!

 

Not in this thread you can. Keep that hippie nonsense out of here. It's Doom Time, all the time.

Hail Grimes!

 

As the Bhudda teaches us, neither our bodies nor our minds are really ours, so no suffering can harm us. Repeat after me "This is not me, this is not mine, this is not myself"

Unless of course you chose to think that you are yourself, living in this moment - then of course you're f***ed.

 

Have you not seen the 10 point plan?

We're all doomed.

 

Doomgasm has been edged.