Gen Z Quietly Gave Up, And Nobody Noticed 

Good. Stop having children while you're at it

The truth is that your vision can change the world...but you have to united and create your political heros. Here in Brazil we have two under 30's federal congress man's. More of them more voice and changes. Company's has there vision...some groups either. Is just a matter of one single voice...but is important in a capitalist world have good numbers to change something.

​@@carlosr192 Of course. No introspection, but ample stump for political change. The depression of Generation Z is artificial, and has been carefully put in place by Freirean Marxist educational capture in the west.

called a NEET

Romans 10:9 = Eternal life +++

Yep I currently live by the do what I want when I feel like It rule now because I may as well lol I know that this way of the world is shit and I'm not rolling in it lol

I felt this comment

The game is rigged, and it is not at the same time. We have a greed and power problem at the top and a game with a shitty design.

This was my conclusion as well

The game is barely playable for some. And yet still expected to play. What a scam. I want my money back.

I just feel like we’re getting to the point where the whole world is about to French revolution itself

That has always been my analogy too

Fantastic analogy

Why do you "attempt" to tell your parent, as if they don't know it ?

⁠@@Senneih_crambecause they don’t. they do not experience the same reality that we do. if your parents aren’t job hopping, they won’t know the reality of job hunting. Their advice is all outdated. School isn’t the same as before, your peers aren’t the same as before, finding a job is COMPLETELY different and not in your favor if you’re remotely short of perfect for the job, many parents still haven’t realized how much the world revolves around being online and being exploitable.

Um ur parents gave up? I spend every dollar on my kids and fvck all on myself. If I could I would buy a house for them. I donate to the poor and hungry. I try to be supportive. I don't know what more to do

@@SagittariusMom Well that's great (but please don't forget to take care of yourself too). Maybe I'm just butter, because our parents never wanted us and resented us for existing.

@lundsweden oh I know the feeling, my mom is very mean to me. It's depressing, but I battle through and never listen to what she tells me to do. I think parents like that are jealous of youth, and too lazy to take care of their kids. Very sad. The world does want u here, try to b positive and optimistic. Xo

@@SagittariusMom Thanks, I agree with what you said!

@@SagittariusMom I got lucky I got a mum who like you was only concerned with being the best parent possible she never had the financial ability to give much to me other than an old banger of a 1st car and the 1st years insurance but she allowed me to stay at home and pay £250 a month which is half the cost of a mere room in student accomadation I too advantage of this for 7 years and earned enough money to buy my own place and avoid getting stuck in the rental trap. My Mum never cared about having the latest phone or car and was happy in the home she had and cared little about home improvement or keeping up with others on the school run. I am so grateful for it all though because all she has ever cared about really is me and my sister and because of that I've managed to live the life I wanted. Not everyone is that lucky though some parents can't wait to get rid of their child as they see them as a burden and waste of space in their house after they turn 18 and those people are plunged into the rental trap and have no hope of owning their own home and given a massive disadvantage.

Hace You Heard the gospel?

@@noc9472 What is it?

@@hope020 Gospel means "good news", and it is the good news that: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 (From the Bible) And if You wonder why do we need the son of God to have eternal life?, well, that is because of sin. We all humans have sinned aganist God (lying, stealing, sexual inmorality, using God's name in vain, pride, cheating, and other things), and because God is Holy (he is set apart from sin) we can't have a good relationship with him just like a criminal can't have a good relationship with a cop. If we die in our sins, we will spend eternity apart from God, and face his Holy and Just wrath for our sins (a good judge has to do his job and actually punish evil). So... What does this have to do with the son of God?, well, You probably already know the story. 2000 years ago Jesus Christ, the son of God came to earth (and this is an historical fact, is not about religion or subjective opinions) to die for our sins, to pay the price for us. If You believe in him as your savior, You accept the fact that he paid for ALL of your sins, and now You can have a relationship with God trough his Son because God won't See more sin in You because all of those were taken by Jesus to the Cross (all of this things come if You believe). Jesus resurrected 3 days later, his body is nowhere to be found on earth and that's why christianity cannot be proven false, they couldn't find the body because he rised from the death!, he is alive and Will come again one day, but right now is time to repent from sins and have faith in Jesus. Romans 5:8 days: But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. That is the gospel, have a good night and i hope you will think about it, remember that death can come any time, and if you die without your sins forgiven, your eternal Destiny won't be pretty, that's why i took time to write this message. (Sorry if My English was Bad)

@@noc9472does the gospel force corruption to disappear from the world? Unfortunately, no. Now, I do believe in God and I do believe there is some truth to the Bible. But I know that book has had plenty of human lies mixed into it. It is just as rigged as the global situation. I’m sorry but I feel like it’s almost disrespectful to respond that way. I’m starving as I write this comment because the rich people across the globe are never satiated. Their greed and lust for power never ends. And they keep taking more from the little I have. And not just me but from the vast majority of humanity. What a privilege to be able to believe that book will fix all your problems. Because I was raised in a household and through schools strictly based on it, I have read it, and I know it didn’t fix my problems. I know reading it didn’t give me food to fill my stomach, money to see a doctor for the many medical issues I haven’t been able to afford to address for years, or any kind of stability amidst the complete mess my life has been since I became an adult almost 10 years ago. I want to have faith that the start to fixing my physical life is fixing my spiritual life. But I’ve been trying for so long and it’s only gotten worse. I’m so close to completely giving up. Please don’t give me that bullsh!t about the book again.

@@noc9472running away to religion solves nothing. Religion is just yet another control tool for the elite for population and crowd control. 😂 you fall in the same trap as them all, only truth is humanism and how we propel others forward for a better future. running to your god with your tail between your legs hoping for a miracle or better afterlife or some big benevolent daddy who loves you very much to solve your problems is pathetic and sad it’s been the basest way to control humans since humans existed and created religion. Turn to humans and true kindness not some abstract fake god in the fucking sky. Religion is not a cure it’s a fucking bandaid you don’t heal a wound by putting a cover over your eyes. 😂

Well said. We were the children of the 90s, the world was so full of life back then, did 9/11 end the world?

@@joecoffee7750 it defiantly seems that way. With that and the natural disasters coming more often than we can afford to rebuild anything with no consideration of how to come back to regular life whatsoever. I say just hang on to each day ❤ 1:38

@@joecoffee7750 More like Bush presidency that threw climate change in the bin for a decade or more, and continued laying the ground work Reagan, Bush and Clinton laid for the 2008 crash.

@@joecoffee7750 the 90s were already depressing ie grunge and most of gen X art and music

@@emmaphilo4049 there were definitely features of it showing up at that time but I distinctly remember the 90s feeling hopeful and fun.

Unfortunately that's how capitalism is set up to work

Yea.

Freelance is a big thing

This. I learned from my parents suffering and I did not want the same fate. Over that I would choose death anytime. Somewhat I got myself into seemingly worse, they had the chance to move in whatever they wanted. I learned everything I could to be a freelancer, struggled at university with all the boomer teachers. They never cooperated in anything, they hit us somewhat fucking top tier students harder, to eventually break. Loving what you do and be disciplined means nothing when you are the biggest shit they've ever seen. Making art is a field you tend to love with all your heart, they made us question all of it. They were like psychiatric patients and narcissists reflecting on everyone. Like, telling us we do nothing, meanwhile starting the work at 7 AM and finishing at 11 AM. Some of us brought home work, if it was moveable, to work on it for an extra 2-3 hours. Quick shower, no eating, nothing. And when I finished, It felt like I used up all of my energy, like a turtle I went back into my shell and got just as slow, not wanting to go anywhere. Our fucking government made it impossible to live, with a dead end job you can't stay afloat, all my bosses were the same narcissistic fucks I met at the univ. No energy to prepare in your little studio (if you are lucky you have one) after your 2-3 job, and if you have no money saved up to start a business around you, there is no chance to ever start out. My country breaks contracts and make you pay everything back by calling in what they already gave by any chance, or you must put in the remaining leftover by yourself, with a new business earning 0, you just started with their help. What can you do now? Okay go online and make shitty content about your art you are busy with, and than? Now you can compete with A.I. or learn that too? What else should I waste time on before I see money? If our society goes on like this, there will be no one left to buy anything.

​@@CastingShadow I'm getting tired of everything. I'm getting tired of the way this society is structured and organized

true millenials tried and learned the hard way... these kids are more mathmatical or sumthing

I'm 48 and I lived in the world I was prepared for, but then it vanished. I suppose I was lucky to have that time...but what now?!

@@heartofartichoke4340 well now you lived in the best financial times what more can you want ?

36 here and I honestly have a lot of respect for the younger generations. My daughter is 14 and she’s been seeing through the BS for so long already. I’m glad they are quietly pulling back and saying they won’t play this game any longer. I’m there mentally, but it’s been a long road of brainwashing I have to go up against.

@@josem588 did I? There's been five major recessions since I was born, as a child I'd keep my coat on indoors when the heating wasn't on. I think interest rates were about 14% when my parents were raising us. My older sibling is 53 and paid £30k for a flat. I think I just missed the cut for better finance but every generation has lived through a lot of recessions. I'm grateful I'm not younger, but that's more for cultural reasons really, mostly related to tech and AI. I don't have kids but I'm often flummoxed by people who now complain they can't afford to take kids for a meal out. There's never been enough money for that unless you're rich.

@@heartofartichoke4340 but you still managed to get a house ?

Reacting by shifting their issue to random events in the quest to be apart of every and all rebellions that go against societal norms. After all, they are getting a taste of protest life, and thinking they are leading a charge and it makes them feel like they have hope. But in reality, because they're so young and inexperienced, they are treating it just like a 5 year old who can't get what they want and is having a tantrum until they get what they want. Waiting accordingly for someone to fix their despairensies.

"Gen Z is just reacting accordingly." Yes...by giving up and doing nothing to change the system, thus ensuring the corporate dystopia will continue unchallenged.

@@Commodore22345 Homie, it's up to the generation in their prime to do that shit, AKA millenials. Also idk about you but most zoomers I know are very conservative/antiwoke. Zoomers think all the degeneracy previous generations have handed to them is cringe as shit. Their weakness is of course social media and videogames, but they're hardly in a position to accept blame for where the culture currently is.

@@stevenobrien7686 Yep, just keep shifting the blame onto others and hope someone else will fix things for you. It's not the job of any other generation to take care of you, it's up to you to take care of yourselves. So all this "doomer" crap of "oh I'm just going to give up because the system is rigged" is going to harm you a lot more than anything else. Giving up is never the answer and anyone who does give up deserves the terrible life that awaits them.

@@Commodore22345 This is exactly why the older generation is cringe when they talk about zoomers. I'm a millennial, it's my generations responsibility right now primarily. But no generation in human history has been subject to the amount of ruthless destruction of societal, and relational norms like zoomers have. The generations before them are filled with a bunch of out of touch "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" losers. The economy is fucked, male to female relations are FUCKED, community and family structure is F U C K E D, and corporate funded conditioning and brainwashing is relentless and near inescapable. On top of this we as older generations have very little wisdom to offer because we ourselves have been becoming weaker, more morally lost, more emotionally and relationally unstable, and principally divided every decade. Life has always been sink or swim, but our generations have been far more likely to have someone there to teach you. Now you sit there with your arms folded looking at a generation who has been hogtied and thrown in a burlap sack before getting kicked into the same river going "life's hard for everyone, why are you giving up so easy? What's wrong with the younger generation?" Get a grip bro. They're guideless, community-less, often parentless, and surrounded on all sides with propaganda eager to sweep them into a deep rabbit hole that'll take a lifetime to climb out of. Earlier generations had so much more healthy structures in place culturally and societally. I'm only 30 but I remember them. If you can't see they face unique challenges that we didn't you're completely out of touch.

Same!

we all did and do, to this day my friend... :)

Gen X, ditto. Honestly, every generation seems to think this is unique and special but...news flash, it's not. Education costs have always risen far faster than income, housing costs have been ridiculous since the 1960's, and the game's been rigged against you since day 1. That having been said, complete doomerism isn't particularly realistic either. The world will go on--probably, barring some vast disaster. The last major reset from the above was the Black Death, and that wasn't really a great time, either. Enjoy what you have. Find a niche and grow in it--and don't expect everything all at once. Life doesn't work that way.

the primary difference here being, millenials had less unfiltered access to information on the internet BEFORE their 20s Gen z is wary of everyone & everything, due to our hyper awareness of individuals/situations/ideology that has no real effect in our lives

so true anime girl

Thanks for putting it into words, you're exactly right

to be honest, it's easier to say it like that than to admit that you're tired of everything

Having to stay so hypervigilant with societal norms, changing markets, culture and so many other things among just trying to live a fulfilling and meaningful life with maybe even kids at some point just drains me man. It might sound a bit dramatic but it feels that our generations are so bombarded by information I often feel like a soldier who came back from the war and now can not relax in a normal environment anymore. There's so much to pay attention to and so much uncertainty about literally everything today. I would love to actually have that feeling of freedom and hope back and just take a deep breath. Shit, I'm calling in sick tomorrow to go out in nature and just relax. We've been handed such a silly set of cards to play.

I totally agree. I’m afraid it’s only gonna get worse. Don’t get me started on dating apps

This is so true.

Corporations will never stop doing things that make them money. We need a major cultural shift where things like social media, video game, and porn addictions are actually stigmatized, not tolerated. Make today's unhealthy habits as taboo as smoking is now. This will probably be too tough for a gen-z raised to think you shouldn't criticize anyone who isn't physically harming people, but maybe gen alpha will pick up the slack when they grow up.

Covid didnt to that. Governments did.

@@RomanDiaries as a disabled person, video games saved my life. addictions are coping escapism out of control. the things you mentioned are less bad than drugs if sme gonna get addicted and being addicted already carries stigma. i think we need structured manner of good quality community, general support for ppl (so there is less reason to need to cope) and decent mh support(to support ppl towards better coping and good quality human interaction and fighting off the darkness.). social media def depression trap. but also can be used as a tool for good quality non intermittent convo contact starting.or keeping in touch. companies always have some unethical ones- is destroying the answer? a poison to the depressed can ave its benefits to othrs. For now there are extensions that can redirect away from those sites. I might support sth like regs vs social media so the most popular doesnt inflate the most negative or extreme content or assumes the user likes negative stuff the first time sth negative is consumed

It's terrible how they're so in denial about how bad it's gotten since their days as young adults. It just gives me the impression that since they had their chance to fully live-not just survive- truly LIVED their lives and got to enjoy the fruits of their labor, they could care less about the generations that come after them. They could care less about the struggles we face now since they didn't have to deal with it, and never will since they passed that phase of their lives and get to have their asses wiped and diapers changed by the very same younger people that will never get to experience that kind of self fulfillment and joy that they did. All the while these same older people will seemingly bitch about millennials and anyone younger than them just for breathing or wanting more out of the system other than being a mindless drone working in vain until we die. For wanting to be human. It's disheartening

I’m gen X and I admit gen Z has it harder in general.

It’s easy to overlook the good fortune in your own life, while judging others for the misfortunes in their lives.

If anyone ever pulls the "I only made X an hour" thing, just ask them how much that is in today's money, and the average price of stuff back in the day.

Why? What would that change in your life? You already know the truth of the matter, so it shouldn’t matter if they admit it or not. Focus on your own stuff.

Out of topic, but happy Birthday Stranger.

@@MatthiasDrinksH20 Thanks lol, it's been nice!

The past few decades have been watching those in power kicking the can down the road, saying there's still time, as they climb down yet another sheer drop so that they may continue kicking the can down the road.

I'm what's typically called a Zennial or "in-betweener" I was born at the end of 96 which technically makes me a millennial, but I have far more formative experiences in common with Gen Z than Millennials as I'm only 2 months older than the oldest members of Gen Z. Being in any "border region" in sociology will really show you how arbitrary the construct is. In general the young have always been expected to atone for the sins of the old, but millennials and especially Gen Z are in a unique position where those who have come before have had unprecedented power to make mistakes which alter all of human life (really all life on earth). And while millennials were burdened with the mistakes of global finance which have condemned the majority of us to lives of poverty, Gen Z has been burdened with the mistakes of ecology brought on by the senseless consumerism which millennials have used to bring some purpose to the life of slavery we were subjected to... I've done my very best to live minimalistically but my choice to try and fix my $5 coffee maker rather than just going to Dollar General to buy a new one seems trivial when my cousin and his wife blow $800 on merchandise every year in their annual trip to Disney World and their life of excess is nothing compared to most influencers. It's all so absurd, it's hard not to want to drop out of life completely.

it's so funny to hear Gen Z'ers say this when both they and the boomers are the ones shitting o n MY generation; the millenials. We're supposed to fix everything but get no support from either side. Boomers are stuck in the past and Gen Z'ers just don't have the spine to even stand up and aid the generation that gets all the crap

It was never easy getting a job and making something of yourself. Zoomers just don't get how much sacrifice is needed to get ahead in the rat race. I worked over 60 hour weeks (7 days) with no day off for a couple of years to get good at my line of work. Then people turn around and say I was lucky. I had it easy. Looks like you the harder you work, the luckier you get? It would be so easy now to compete if I was in my 20s again...because the kids are slackers in comparison.

@@justinjennings9840 The kids have given up, because we're unlikely to "win" at the "rat race". Look up Quiet Quitting. We're never going to be promoted because of world wide corruption. We are very likely to die poor due to getting sick and never having insurance cover anything. The world we live in is different to the one you live in. I implore you to research how the job market has changed, please don't remain ignorant. It is not that you were lucky to have a job, it is that you were lucky to be born before Boomers ruined everything.

@@justinjennings9840 Typical Boomer guff. Gen Z work you just get caught up in all the tik tok videos, I have at times done 75-90 hours a week consistently and I'm Gen Z. I have worked hard to keep getting better its still harder to get on the property ladder than it was for you stats back it up, I will get on the ladder and I live better than 85% of people my age but even so should someone my age really have to work 80 hour weeks to get somewhere in the 21st century when living standards should be higher than they've been.

Im talking in general. Averages. Rules not exceptions. @@gravemind6536

​@justinjennings9840 you should learn about the history of work and realize how much of a sucker you really are. I really don't think anyone should be taking any advice from your generation. If I had my way, the boomers would go down as the arrogant generation that stole their kids' future.

Drs have 2 tools: medication and surgery. Learn to take care of urself as well. Don't become a hypochondriac

Hahahaaaaa I haven't received my results from a urine analysis 7 years ago 😂

​@@SagittariusMom girlie ur projecting, getting tested for 1 thing doesn't make someone a hypochondriac

@@asterling4 skibidi toilet on God cap no cap

Quit crying

Then just walk down a different street. Throw a molotov cocktail into a republican's house, acab, be a marxist.

Carry a gun lol. Sorry Millennials like myself like to take the path of least resistance to attain our goals. If shooting someone in self defense and spending a night in jail means continuing our lifestyle. We will do it.

Best thing we can do is walk it together. When our generation gets into office and steps into the responsibilities of society at large, I think things can change. That change probably won't be for us. But at least our kids and grandkids won't have to be hopeless like us. That's what gets me excited for the future.

❤

@@tl566 yeah, you guys will be way better 🙄

500 million........ 👀

seems like ur complaining about poor life choices. there's beauty in the struggle. u can become rich or atleast wealthy but i'ts not easy, which in return gives u a goal/purpose in life. u won't get financial freedom with a job. Start investing or start a business.

​@@da41The system is rigged. The only way to truly gain money is to invest money and there is dozen of people who make more per day than the everyday people do in their life. Using money to make money means people get extremely lazy and contribute nothing to society, all while those do don't get anything of the cake. As the farmer said, it ain't much but it's honest work (at least).

​@@1merllin1you're illiterate. You know nothing about how the financial market works. I cringed hard while reading your comment. And there's no "cake". Economy is not a zero sum game.

​@@Eclipsed972loser mentality

Even with that I think all of you lived through the best financial times EVER even better than the 1920s

i miss 2019

I feel you man. I was born in 96 too and i can tell that the last time i was truly optimistic and positive was back in 2019 before you know what happened and fucked everything up for me. I was about to graduate and get me my degree (which i got) and i was expecting this decade to be a beginning of something new and refreshing. Couldnt get a job because of the lockdowns etc, and now it feels like the whole degree i studied for was a waste of time and money because no ones interested to hire me, other applicants beat me with experience, and ive done menial soul crushing jobs to stay afloat.

I wish to go back to the late 00s/early10s. Fuck this shit! Smh

"society in general just feels off and i cant put my finger on it." -you emergence of the beast system. aka new normal, aka great reset, ag-end-a 2030. own nothing and be happy. net zero -carbon credit, social credit, cashless society

I know , everyone is constantly trying to be better than you , and if you aren’t , you’re a loser and will get treated like so , that’s the problem, expectations are too high or too low, no one wants to be you , and you don’t want to be anybody , best advice is ,just let the world fall into pieces

Gen z’ers are weak as heck

My man got himself a cougar.

Learn your alphabet sir. A millenial like us should go for Gen Z wife not Gex X wife.

@@prodigalson888 It could be only like a year difference

@@zippinghen 😱😱😱😱 you are so correct!!!! It surely could be! OMG 😱 you pointed out something so amazing 🙏 Thank You, GOOD BUDDY.

I can relate

I think that MGR:R's Senator Armstrong brings up this point in his pre-boss fight speech to a T. He pointed out that people without guiding principles or faiths of any kind welcome the maxims of nationalism, (whatever your deffenition of a nation is) unilateralism, and especially materialism. That there is no need to better the self, because you're part of a collective, (and you want to screw over anyone not part of that collective) and once you've given up your beliefs, the only thing that matters is the value of your dollar, and if that's the only thing that matters, people will do whatever it takes to stay afloat. So of course when every single powerful person in the world is harassing, if not outright forcing you to give up your beliefs because it hurts nature, or the economy, or some fringe group of extremists even, it's going to soul crush god knows how many into this state of just trudging along through life aimlessly.

Yeah, and there are two reasons for this, blinding into and contradicting each other though working well hand in hand. The first is the emerge of hyperinflation. By this, I do not solely refer to the depreciation of money. In terms of a decrease of meaning I refer to the whole world getting enslaved under the dictum of THE MORE. More Information, more friends, more work, more pressure, more freetime, more distraction, more everything. In the video, it was said that a growing number of people begin to feel that there is something off. They feel mysteriously detached from the world, as if things were starting to get futile, hollow and abstract. To my regards, this is caused by the circumstance that PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED IN TO MANY CONTEXTS. What do I mean by this? I mean, that digitalization, internet-presence, globalization and the connection of our economies (which are basically the products of our human externalization translated into an ideological theory) have rearranged our millenialy grown social communities, our ways of reproducing ourselves in our regional environment, our ways of enactment in our environment in such new and displayed ways that it overwhelms the cognitive capacity of many people. Like 500 years ago, the state of the entire world was to a stunning extent, that societies were fragmented in regional contexts of politics, economics and creation of meaning. For example, the great majority of people who were living in the north west of Germany didn't have a clue how people in the south were doing. And they didn't have to give a fuck as they had very limited access to ways to get information. Then, industrialization came, national states were emerging and brought gigantic systems of bureaucracy with them. Everything was getting more abstract, more cold and mechanical. Ways of rational thinking superseded religious cults but they couldn't replace the symbolic meanings cults were offering. People had to turn to prosthetic ideologies like capitalism or socialism or other -isms that gave them intellectual reciprocity. They borrowed images or metaphors from religion, like the relation of debt (in monetarian relationships) to guilt (in a religious sense, sparked by Adam's betrayal) or the adaptation of Christ's ethics of pitty and selflessness in socialism to creat a society, were everyone's doing more for his neighbour than for himselve. To cut a long story short, ideology stayed closely related to group building and all social-psychological phenomena of the group mind. This is, why we see people today trying to belittle those who struggle in work and finances, because they have internalized the principles of the capitalist society as a replacement for former ways of committing themselves to the community under the authority of god. The "job-hobber" then becomes to them, what a heretic for christians in the 16th century was. I consider this to be a defensive mechanism of our established world-views and social processes. They are the second reason of our today's society going haywire as they are reacting to the hyperinflation, which was supported by the ascent of conventional mass media (like the newspaper in the 18./19. century, the radio in the early and the tv in mid-20th century). Simultaneously it was getting common to be informed from all around the globe. Jobs were getting more theoretical and distant, like it was getting normal in many milieus to not work were you were growing up but moving to a city or even to another country. The rise of neoliberalism sums that development up perfectly: everyone's getting hyper-individualized, should be responsible for his success in adaption to that changed circumstances almost completely on his own and furthermore for his construction of sense. The Internet dramatically accelerated that development, to a degree were our minds now cannot differ between the direct causes of our externalization (aka what we have learned over thousands of years to be authentic) and subordinate reproductions and imitations. This on the other hand intensifies the efforts of those who stick to normativism and authority, to somehow reverse certain aspects of that processes. Nevertheless, they work on the premise of hyperinflation maybe more than any other group of people, as they are ideologically convinced of the rightness of neoliberalism and self-exploitation. Those problems are briefly, what we have to face and to understand in the relationship that is going on between them.

Facts 💯

Being 47 and working in IT since I was 16, I can relate as well. Especially the being laid off over and over and over and over again. I finally struck gold at 33yo, but it took me 17 YEARS to finally lad a stable IT job (it had a union, go figure!). I make 60k a year and housing prices have trippled in the last 14 years as well. I * still * cannot afford anything worthwhile. Oh do I wish I had had the same opportunities my parents had. I feel so poor/unachieving compared to them. Then again I didn't work at the same place for all my career like they did because of the above. It's even worse for Millenials and Z's tho, at least minimum wage allowed me to pay for rent, food, clothing and public transport back when I was starting up... These days? lolnope.

I know something we can strive for: a society where we have the freedom and resources to pursue our peace of mind. That is why I do not fear the coming civil war.

Look forward to cyberpunk land jk why tf would you look forward to that

​@@Gilbert_gang. Lmao. Made me chuckle. I don't know, cybernetic implants could be fun?

@@luv_sic I bet cybernetic stuff would be for the rich tbh and I’m kinda a brokie myself

@@Gilbert_gang. And even if they were universally available I personally wouldn’t want one of those implants. Companies aren’t exactly good on keeping a promise, like how some literally blocked access to a digitally bought game to everyone including those who already bought it and now it’s practically impossible to play it unless a physical copy exists. Who’s going to stop them from slightly influencing your brain if possible? It doesn’t have to be outright mind control, just enough to encourage avoiding specific brands and have more urges to stay loyal to that company. Btw this comment is mostly aimed at brain implants since I’m not even sure how others would work.

@@Mayflower-Yev other implants would probably be less problematic, I would hope that brain implants would be output only and NEVER have any input

Same mate, I literally feel the same way u do

Dark times ahead of us, that is the only 100% sure fire thing everyone knows. It feels like we are in the front seat witnessing the collapse of modern Western civilisation like the Romans were in their final days, and there isn't a damn thing we can do to change it because the game is entirely rigged against you. If the game's rigged though, might as well start cheating is what I say. Being honest and good gets you nowhere and just gets you betrayed, so it's better to betray the world and help your own than bend the knee to their sick fucking game at this point.

For me I was the same for almost everything up until being able to lie out every single detail of my future life, as I don’t nor do I really engage in that. And I feel as thought it has kind of made it easier to accept or understand the whole picture to me, I wonder if anyone has felt the same way that not thinking ahead has made the chance to think about the whole picture

@@aerickmon3350 yeah, I agree. As time has gone on, I’ve learned to focus on the present a lot more. It definitely eases the pressure.

Never really had any future goals even when I was younger. I did want to be a RU-vidr for a bit. In just a few months my whole world changed drastically. I had a huge change in my life and my perspective of the world changed shortly after. I've always been a cynical person and had misanthropic feelings since I was an early teen. But these feelings have grown exponentially over the last year. I trust no one. I distrust everything people do. Not completely because I'm aware of my delusional state but enough to be wary. I'm slowly becoming apathetic. Everyone seems so stupid. I don't know if maybe I am a narcissist or arrogant but holy cow people are stupid. So stupid. I'm stupid but these people are even more stupid. I'm told I'm smart. Always have been told that. I've never felt that way. But now I can't tell if I am really that smart or if everyone is just stupid in comparison. I'm told how smart I am yet people never listen to me. It's funny how that works. They'll compliment my intelligence and deprecate their own but those same people never listen to me. Even if it's something I know is correct. I'm always right. Maybe that sounds narcissistic to an outsider, but it's accurate. I'm very rarely wrong about something. Partially because IRL I will refrain from speaking surely about things I'm not confident about. I seem to be able to predict people's actions pretty well as well. It's made even trolling dull. Everyone is so predictable. So boring. So stupid. I care about nothing. I hate this species. I hate all life. And don't misconstrue my hatred for a lack of compassion. I just can't change my perspective I'm too dissociated. My mental state worsens every week, probably because of my abuse of marijuana. It's on purpose though so don't worry. I've purposefully taken on debt and have screwed myself over in a few other ways just to fuck myself in the long run. I want to face absolute despair. I don't want to get better. I don't think I can and even if I could, I wouldn't want to. There are just some things I don't see myself ever unthinking. It would be like getting a hardcore atheist to believe in a creationist diety. That would be changing their fundamental beliefs about how reality works. So I don't ever see myself losing my cynicism, misanthropy, and nihilism. As you might be able to tell, my thoughts are scattered and I have a hard time staying on one line of thought. A symptom of isolation and probably whatever else is going on in my head. Marijuana makes everything so much worse but better, too. It makes my thoughts even more jumbled. And overlapping, uncontrollable thoughts as well. It's most likely a result of my HPPD which marijuana exponentiates. I haven't seen pitch black in over 2 years and probably won't ever again. I have horrible tinnitus. I am both mentally and physically ill. I hope whatever physical illnesses I have are fatal. I refuse to get treatment. I mean -- hell -- I don't even know exactly what it is. I can't even escape into coomerism because of one of my ailments. All I have is marijuana and once I start working here soon, some harder stuff if I can find a reliable source to buy from online. I really hope I can find ketamine. It's pretty good. I've said a lot of what I think and believe. But one thing I am absolutely certain of is that I know nothing. At the end of the day my thoughts are meaningless because I know nothing. I can confirm nothing. I am uncertain of everything. That all I'm certain of. Schizo rant over.

Some days I wake up and pray for an apocalypse. Thank God Putin can help with that....

@@Ilaunchnukes While i doubt WW3 will happen, the end of humanity seems like the best thing it could happen.

that'd suck tho because the world is a beautiful place and i didn't get to travel yet but oh well

@@Ilaunchnukes Thank the United States for being able to thank Putin for that

Jesus loves us all

666 the number of oppression

The humanity? Are you... an alien?

Is AI trying to tell us something?

Someone speaks some sense and this is what people tell them? "Are you an alien or robot?" You just proved his point.

@defaulted9485 it's because "the humanity" is something an alien would say. Just "humanity" is how a human says it. Trust me. I know like 5 aliens.

Same, millennial here. Its funny that people dub Zoomers as the doomer generation and that may be true but I think its oversimplified. In my generation a good chunk of us are doomers because we started early in the Internets and if you were a curious and inquisitive fellow like myself, you eventually would end seeing shit that nobody should see, at least that early in life and that frequent. Damage to the brain and the psyche is real, take care of it. Also addiction to porn is a real, troublesome problem that is barely acknowledge even today. I think this is the reason I relate to zoomer humour and memes... because I was already part of communities that generated this kind of doomer nihilistic anti-comedy. The reason doomer millennials gets ignored in favour of zoomers its simply because we are not that much into putting ourselves into social networks like tiktok or ig. We are silent and alone. We are perpetually lurking. And yeah society shitted on us really hard. Look at the headlines on the news of 6-10 years ago to see what the boomers were saying about us. I'ts hilarious that even zoomers think we are lame or whatever. But I think it's the unavoidable cycle of the new teenagers-early 20s (the youth, basically) feeling themselves COOL and WIRED in the popular culture cosmos. Which is beautiful but per definition something that fades eventually when you hit late 20s-early 30s and you can't bee "cool" anymore. The truth is, only young people have the right to do stupid cringe shit and have a pass. That's why trying new fashions trends, hairstyles, idioms and customs it's expected of the young'uns but after a certain fuzzy age it's just fucking cringe and lame. Enjoy your time, zoomers. Soon it will end and the Alphas (fucking stupid name btw) will rise and take your lunch, as is the circle of life. EDIT: BTW it's fucking nuts that the zoomers are dubbed as the woke generation when Millennials kickstarted this shit, invented new movements and trailblazed throughtout the whole boomer propagantisdic apparatus. MeeToo, BLM, LGBTQplus, etc awareness was started and put forward by my generation. Zoomers were kids playing nintendo DS and Wii when we were chanting politcal messages, protesting and inititating online campaings against corporations. Zoomers only joined those movements long after they were started! The only valid zoomer movement right now its the anti school shooting thing.

Try using positive words. At least you know you shouldn't put your job over YOU. Do the job and go home.

+ part you left out is that after going through all of the above and having given up - all that is left for you is coping by using drugs, social media, jerking off and fast food. I feel you on this one

what is your demographic?

same, fugging same.

Exactly! My mother keeps telling me, that, back in her day, most people who turned 18 got kicked out of their former home and had to find their own along with a paying job. Yeah, try doing that in a time, at which every mistake and misunderstanding and lacking skill is held against you, along with unaffordable homes, all in a sick game that has literally been rigged from the start!

Sometimes I think some of them have forgotten the fact that a lot of jobs back in the day didn't require boatloads of schooling like they do today

​@@dralinkushinen Well, Russia is about to start WW3. We will be free when the missiles start flying.

Speaking as a Gen X, it really isn't as easy as it was back in the day. I also think we've been sold a bad bag of goods. That dream they sell us on; you go to college, you get a nice job, buy a house, you retire with a nice pension. I think it was a sales pitch. Who makes money off that? Colleges and big corporations that devalue you and use your labour for their benefit. We need to reevaluate the dream. It was terrifying, but my husband and I moved to literally the middle of nowhere and bought a farm no one wanted, so we paid practically nothing for it. It's a learning curve, but we are learning to grow our own food and we sell it at farmers' markets. (We do a lot of trading there too. I trade baked goods for goat cheese and meat. It's a pretty sustainable way to live.) The house, the car, the perfect job, it's all window dressing. The people around you, the connections you make, the lives you touch, that is what makes a life worth living. I don't have a huge house (in fact, we are working on fixing this house up) or a nice car. But, I have a family that I love and every day I take my dog and walk in my woods. I learn and practise new planting techniques. I feed our chickens and watch the deer in our meadow. I talk to amazing people at our farmers' market and I make new friends. I'm part of my community and we all support each other. I was a teen in the 80s, I grew up with that rich day trader mentality. My husband has student loans on a degree he isn't using. But this life I've found, it's simpler, it's better. Maybe we need to rethink what the end goal should be.

Well the boomers got theirs and then pulled up the ladder behind them.

But it is. Don't listen this bullshit.

It is though. All the effort we have all put in for literally no reward. Giving up isn't just the easy option it's the only option

Therapy is a scam btw

The saddest thing is we have more wealth than any other country in history and should have every right to work less and pursue those things. The industrial revolution was our wake up call. Mass automation should be making our lives easier, but the capitalist system just sends those gains straight to the top and tells us to work even harder for less and less.

​@@Emidretrauqe fr proletriat revolution

@@Emidretrauqe I think you don't understand term wealth as that mens assets not money Yes select few have absurd about of wealth but the rest have next to nothing even serfs had some wooden shacks and modern people don't even have that.

Seems like 1970s time to me was the time of like allowance for being slow or being inquisitive or trying to create stakes in life

@@deltaxcd are you seriously going to tell me we’re worse off than medieval serfs as we sit on our asses arguing in the comments section with our phones and our internet 🙄

That's a sweet thing to say.

Feminism erased mens roles in society. In this feminist society the only way for men to receive praise and acceptance is to literally become women. Which is why all boys want to be girls. This is doom for feminists. Transwomen are actually applying effort to be women. They actually focus on being more feminine. Real women don't try as hard, they just wear less clothing. The younger generation are erasing women and women are encouraging it.😢

Hehe me too.

Thank you. It’s nice to hear words of encouragement and optimism from someone older in a world that looks down upon the newer generations.

Too little too late. The younger gen is of a smaller size and they will not have much pull for another 20 years. By then everyone will be forced to live the corrupt leftist life style.

I find it weird about how they talk about a shortage of workers and yet don’t hire any

@@Gilbert_gang. now i think that our grandparents romanticizing the past had reason.

Yeah, I'm also a gen Z in college and I rely on anger so that I don't succumb to apathy/despair. Tbh, I think more people should get in touch with their anger.

Yep. We're being farmed

Hey, I love they way you are transmuting this energy into passion. May you continue to use your passion to figure out how to be positively impactful.

@@jasonjohnson6938 been saying this for awhile

The goverment aren't scared when it's adults who are revolting against the goverment . But when it's the youngsters it's like they having a nightmare.

Sixteen years on you, and I'm feeling much the same. Things are designed so they can't be fixed. There's zero impetus for the people who can actually fix the problems to do anything about them.

That’s pretty how much I feel. I haven’t given up in the sense of “Everything is pointless” and shit but I have given up on trying to make some huge revolutionizing change. There’s 8 billion people on this planet, many are probably more fit than me, but that’s ok. They can do those things, they can pursue those things if they want. Change will still happen regardless of what I do, and I can try to help the people around me just as well. Besides, treating others with kindness is actually probably single-handedly the best way to make a huge change. People don’t forget kindness that easily. It can go a long way in improving someone’s day

@@Flow-Fi- Couldn't agree more with the point about kindness

I especially feel your point about people who are better qualified already existing. I feel that every day, especially as a junior who’s struggling in Mechanical Engineering. I’m constantly surrounded by people who seem smarter than I am, and am friends with overachievers. It helps to remember that besides all our differences, we’re all human and we’re all struggling, which is something I often forget.

Despite these ideas of an attainable utopia, the true condition of existing is suffering. Period. When we become familiar with it, learn to embrace it, we overcome it. You can’t win a battle if you don’t know the enemy. Once you understand that you’re going to have to tangle with suffering every day of your life until you die, life becomes a little easier. You gotta be hard out here. That’s why animals are vicious. They know they’re one distraction away from gettin’ eaten.

I'm saving $200 a month just so I can move to some apartment in the deep red south before Civil War 2 starts.

Right there with you brother! Trust in Jesus he will come again and save us from this mess

Jesus Christ. How ain't nobody replied to this? Firstly I understand. About aspirations and lack of self-belief. Those 2 things are actually so on my mind I did not sleep last night. No hate to you for it but you are a women. And you are young. You can have all the bottom 3 tiers of Mazlos hierarchy of needs easy. Well social may take a tad bit of effort but certainly the other 2 easy. Just have a decently happy life. It is absolutely possible for you. And you are so fucking young. You have so much time still. You don't get the right to be a doomer unless you are horrifically disadvantaged to other girls in appearance or a disability. Chances are you arent. You aren't allowed to be a doomer.

This.

I don’t get it explain

ok wait wdym by this? Are you upset that people that were previously doomers/nihilists are trying to help others out of absolute negativity, or..?

@@astraleopard6946 he's talking about gamers

VERY well said!

Yeah, the boomers really fucked us younger generations over

I’d say it’s part that, part being overwhelmed with almost exclusively negative news all 24/7 thanks to the internet. Gen Z and some Millennials grew up online, where every major world event and petty drama is pumped in their brain and treated with equal importance all the time. Even back when people’s lives were objectively worse on average, the stress of the outside world was mostly limited to the six o’clock news and the morning paper, you could take a break and carry on with your day. Now you can’t just turn off the tv, put the paper down or ignore gossip, because you carry it in your pocket at all times.

​@@amethystimagination3332 could also be the active shooter drills for kindergarteners

Yup, Gen Z here, and I can tell you that everyone I speak with is frustrated to hell and back with the lies, and the lack of action in general. Shooting? Nothing changes. World slowly burning? Nothing changes. I think the vast majority of us could live with bad news if it was like "climate change is real, ExxonMobil facing bankruptcy" or "3 school shootings this week, automatic weapons are now banned" like seriously. It doesn't have to be instantly fixed, but for the love of anything good left in this world, we want SOMETHING to happen, something to change. It's not the bad news that driving us insane, it's the SAME bad news happening every week, every year, and reading the same press releases from every single person who could fix problems. It's always "we are committed to planning how to fix something somewhere at some time until you all forget about this, then we are committed to squeezing more money out of you all."

@@amethystimagination3332 It's the realization and outpouring of the world's collective negativity online, and on the news, and amplified by increasing technological progress, not to mention the increasing natural and man-made disasters, the echo chambers, the growing self-awareness of humanity regarding their rights, independence and freedom, and the alternate perceived realities narratives that societies have constructed both within (far-left reality vs left-wing reality vs right-wing reality vs alt-right reality) and outside (international tension and different worldviews). And then there's the normalization of negativity because of how click-baity negative news is. On top of that, there's growing polarization in the world - domestically and internationally - as well as people being disillusioned by corruption in politics, by harsh economics, by cruel society by the seemingly continuous set of amoral and emotionless events both recent (wildfires, disasters, shootings, protests, insurrections, wars, dictatorships, pandemics) and the massive pile of mistakes made in the past few centuries and left as a planetary-level mess to clean up (many of the tragedies we've experienced can be directly or indirectly attributed to the Cold War, World Wars, colonisation and their aftereffects, if not linked to corporate or aristocratic greed). Humanity is wired to remember negative circumstances much more strongly than positive events, as a survival instinct to prepare for danger. It might have been useful in the past, but it's detrimental now. If it weren't for the web, humanity wouldn't be here today, for better or for worse, but there's no going back now.

Now I understand why they are so happy they talk about his youth.

I feel that in my soul.

I'm turning 32 I just want my parents to die before I do so they're not as sad I know my little sister Will survive me and be sad but this place sucks this plain of existence blows

The pseudo-sociological talk of “generations” muddles the issue, and pits people against each other who should all be able to agree that the economy and the planet are a mess.

​@@ailblentynAgreed!!

There’s a scene from a game called We Happy Few, it sees the main character, Arthur, on a bride with a constable standing next to him. Arthur, murdered his brother essentially, and the bride scene has him coming to terms with that. His old life, gone, without a trace in the mortal world. He asks for mercy, the constable hearing this asks if Arthur CAN be granted this mercy. Arthur replies, “no,” The constable then grabs his arm and lets off an amazing quote, “life goes on, that IS the mercy.” Give yourself that mercy, who cares if you’re not exactly in the shape of what everyone else around you wants. It’s your life, just be merciful.

Well we already live in the reality that a few elites control large groups of people. We can't get much worse than where we are unless we are talking about Nazism the likes we seen in Germany, and given current circumstances that might be inevitable something like that arises. I don't see how it's scary to want a way out of this. It's scarier to see everyone lie flat and give up.

Just one disgraced austrian painter and war vet is all it takes

@@alreadyblack3341I’m ready for it too it’ll be fun

@@alreadyblack3341 Not true, that austrian painter got a lot of help along the way.

@@drewm9903 I meant less in a single strongman sort of way and more of like a butterfly effect kind of way.

thanks for this! a good way to start stepping away to doomer mindset alongside to the video💕

Thank you for sharing your bits of wisdom

FINALLY. Someone who's not always sad and gloomy.

You cant think your way out of a dead end job unless tou got a sweet gig around the corner.

Yeah I feel that hard. It’s even better when people think your being dramatic or whatever when you point that out

I feel you man, found out i have autism last year at 23, everytime i take a step, i feel that im doing something wrong cause Everyone kept telling i do stuff wrong.

Well, that's because the world isn't actually made for neurodivergent people at all.

THIS. i'm an undiagnosed autistic and ADHD trans person who's father is a hyper-religious pastor who despises lgbtq+ people and thinks ADHD meds shouldn't exist. i practically just graduated and i already feel like i've failed.

@@deinodinosuchusLet me guess, all trump voters are nazis? We get it, you're mentally ill.

Yes, you don't really have rights Eating isn't a right, having a roof over your head isn't a right, education isn't a right...they're all privileges afforded to those who can pay. And it's getting harder and harder to afford these "rights"

We already pay taxes just to breathe lol

Mark my words, someday Nestlé will buy the atmosphere from the federal government and charge us for bottled air and make it a crime to breathe normally and Boomers or the equivalent at that time will be moaning about how kids these days are thieves and Communists for wanting to breathe for free because Nestlé bought the air fair and square and they have a right to profit from it.

@@rickydo6572 which always seemed so outlandish to me. water is a privilege - *water* of all things. this is an insane world we’re living in.

@@rickydo6572 True. Those aren't considered rights; they're considered needs, and we're expected to work in order to meet those needs. That would be fair enough if working actually allowed us to meet those needs. However, prices have gone up way faster than wages. And therein lies the problem. When working no longer allows you to afford to live, what other choices do you have?

It's good you can see it and admit it. 💯

I feel the same way, about the last part of your comment specifically. I’m not in the same situation as you so I’m not as experienced, but I feel like the only way you get anywhere nowadays is through connections; real or artificial. Whether it’s moral or ethical is besides the point, because it seems that if you don’t take full advantage of your environment and circumstances(other people fall under this category especially) you’re deliberately hindering your own potential and reducing your likelihood of success/longevity in the world. It’s sad, because I feel altruism and humility are extremely powerful and admirable virtues, but those traits alone will play to your deficit in the long run if you don’t also opportunistically act selfishly or in your own tribes best interest. It’s just a very difficult social landscape to navigate, working my first job helped me learn how to act around my coworkers and gave me a better understanding of workplace dynamics but I’m still learning things everyday. It does get better with time though

You really have to metagame to win at life...

Well it's good to see some people that lucked out in life are still self aware, because I can confirm this is not the case for most people...I'm in my early 30s and I've pretty much fully given up at this point and have accepted that if I'm ever forced out of my family home I'll just self delete because there's no way I'll be able to afford even the shittiest ghetto small apartment in my city when rent for that is still like 4k a month.

@@redfox4561 or move to a city where it isn't 4 grand a month...

Agree! We don't need focus into Andrew Tate and men Vs women and all stuff

It's a lot like the advice on airplanes to put your own oxygen mask on first, you will be entirely no help to others if you're passed out cold and hypoxic. Even if you can fight whatever issue it is, you can make a much better difference if you're at your full strength and not sapping yourself of every last drop of energy for it

Before the pandemic, my father would always come home tired and angry. Things have gotten a little better for him since moving to largely online work. Regardless, he still despises the two hours there and back he has to drive, the company lays a bunch of stuff on him, and he’s admitted to me that he’s just counting the days until retirement at this point. Growing up I was told all the time that I should appreciate the fact that I’m still young and “living in a bubble.” That once I go out into the big wide world, the fun is over. Or something like that. Meanwhile, I got let go from a UPS store (franchise technically) recently. They said that while I was a good employee, they were concerned about my ability to handle the stress. And that’s the thing. Top 10 in the entire country when it comes to performance. Average of 4.9 stars on google maps with at most half a dozen reviews under 5 stars. Smallest store in the county. Busiest in the state. Processing around 2000 Amazon returns PER DAY. As part-time, I worked 23 hours weekly. At $18 per hour. Closing shift from 10:45 to 7:00. Frankly, I was stubborn. I pushed myself way too hard because I didn’t want to feel like the weakest link. Like a disappointment. My coworkers (managers included) were genuinely good and supportive people, the ones who make such grueling work even remotely tolerable, and I didn’t want to let them down. Even when it was slowly killing me. Whether employee or customer, leader or follower, we all were (and continue to be) subject to policies that even the owners struggle to understand. And of course people would come complaining about them. Getting upset at US for something completely beyond our control. When difficult customers ask difficult questions to someone who has little to no formal training or the experience to answer, the cracks begin to show. “It’s UPS policy.” Doesn’t sound right. Feels like another excuse. Technology nearly a decade old. Damaged scanners that struggle to see past the glare of the sun itself. Electronic scales literally falling apart. Computers with outdated software crashing at least once per day. A database incapable of communicating customer info between stores. The bathroom doubles as both break room and storage. Officially we can’t change the store layout without express permission from corporate, even when doing so would objectively make things better for everyone involved. And now I’m finding out that the company drivers, the backbone of the whole damn logistical structure, are keeling over from heatstroke. I’m just… tired. Tired of constantly bearing witness to the pointless suffering, knowing damn well how incredibly powerless I am to stop it. Do I even control myself at this point? Simply put… There’s a hole in the raft. Instead of simply patching the hole, here we are pathetically bickering amongst ourselves, pointing fingers and laying blame as if identifying who made the hole would even solve the problem. Never has. Never will. We’re sinking. And no one seems to care. Not like anyone listens. To a stupid kid like me.

Because focusing on ourselves will solve climate change, will solve housing and healthcare becoming more expensive and unattainable day by day. These problems that society can't seem to solve are not problems that will go away on its own or by the actions people have already done. No matter how well you do personally this economic and political system will fuck us all.

@@goldminer754 That's why self-reliance and urban exodus are a thing, people want to get away from the big cities which are the places that most contribute to the problems. Don't worry about problems beyond your reach, but if you want to make a difference in a positive way, buy land, sequester carbon by allowing natice vegetation to grow.

The contract was never formed in adolescence. Can't break something that isn't there in the first place. Think about it. Contracts must ben made in anticipation of adulthood not in adulthood.

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

J.R.R. Tolkien was a war veteran who lost most of his friends from early life in horrific circumstances and after that an _incredibly_ successful intellectual. His experience, and the conclusions he drew from it, are completely divorced from anything a typical doomer has to deal with.

I am mostly glad this isn't the "weak men, hard men, times, something something, strong men" and the "evil cannot create..." quotes people keep paroting around like Elder Scrolls NPCs

@Rafael Bogdan He certainly didn't have to deal with as much gaslighting.

@@lisarox4221 What has the weak men/ strong men nonsense to do with Tolkien?

Relative stranger from America, Christ didn't forget us brother!

You will win the war and wrest control of your life back from the chaos. Just keep your head up, your eyes forward, and put one foot in front of the other, taking care of yourself and those around you the best you can. You will get through this and the future will be much brighter than you think now.

@@irreducibleBoogieas a fellow American and Christian, please don’t take advantage of someone’s despair trying to evangelize. It’s manipulative and inappropriate. It’s also assumptive and condescending.

@@neosapienz7885 I thank you for your kind words and support brother. Me and my people will indeed fight off this evil and strive for a new, better, wiser and just country. Because we have no other choise if we want to survive.

I hope you find your peace brother

This is exactly what I was thinking too, I was always told about how smart I am and all the 'potential' I have in school and growing up. However, I was never really taught how to manifest my apparent potential. Life has been a living hell trying to figure everything out on my own, and I'm still waiting for that supposed white privilege to kick in lol.

"Working smarter not harder" is the greatest sentence in this generation.

Indeed. The problem isn't being told your efforts are worthless and futile. The problem is them actually objectively being worthless and futile.

@@thesong7877 *extremely loud correct dinging*

@@thesong7877Truth.

im at the same point in life (23), and the country i live in (israel) is both burning around me and fueling the fire in other countries, and the planet itself look like it is about to go to hell thanks to us humans, so what is the point

Expect nothing and you’ll never be disappointed

that is so much harder than it sounds tho@@blakebridges1030

now it seems like the best is too far fetched, something has to go wrong along the way

@@blakebridges1030 Expect nothing and reality will find a way to lower your standards.

That's what got men to volunteer to fight in the world wars. Without optimism there'd have been no war at all

Optimism instead of revolution I guess

"I think most people of any age can feel the deleterious aura of this current world." YES! Almost all of us, regardless of age or how well or not we might be doing, are increasingly aware of the dysfunction and injustice of the current system. Unfortunately that doesn't make it any less painful or scary to see said system collapse around us. But everything has a natural life cycle including human societies, and I do honestly beleive that once this painful transition period is over, whatever emerges from the ashes on the other side will be much better than what we have had before. The collapse and death phase of a society is always painful and traumatic, but equally, it is always what happens right before a complete rebirth.

@@soundseeker63 I totally agree 💎

Things DO matter! There are things you can do, even if it is just doing something small. When has any of you noticed what the warmth of a smile means, or a hug, or just having a person around you that means something to you. Maybe a story or a character from a story is what gives you warmth. If you can only find comfort in stories right now, why don't you try doing something like RPing in a story setting you know, and you will see that your choices have impact. YOUR CHOICES matter. And they don't just matter in these stories. You can't change the world, but you can certainly change how you choose to view those around you and yourself. I know sometimes it just feels like giving up is the only option, but really, there are so many things one can do. Don't just say goodbye to a life you haven't even started yet. There is hope and meaning, you just have to find out for yourself where it lies for you. Be kind to yourself. I hope this may help some doomers. OF course, life won't just turn around. But, step by step, slowly moving forward, maybe you can find a meaning to latch onto. Something that gives you joy, and that gives your life some bright colour. Even if it is just that one story, that one series, that one cat tictoc video that made you smile- whatever it is, these moments are the ones you should try to find. What makes you smile, and adding it slowly into your life. You can do it. I believe in all of you.

Right. Bring that "successful gaming" into the real world to kick ass.

​​@@evilsadness3867 Edit: finished fully reading your comment. So basically you're saying find your coping mechanism and distract yourself from reality so you can join the smombie happy people. Ever thought about that it might not be about being content and happy at every price. Why wouldn't i be depressed, why would i try to look away from the stupidity and insanity around me? that's bs really. They don't. And that's not even considering free will and choice could easily be an illusion. Or yeah, they do. But when 9 million people do x the one person doing y won't change shit. It's okay, they got the world they wanted and managed to keep the slave classes just about content enough so they won't actually do something about their situation. And the audacity to talk about things like trickle down economics... like... how stupid are we? They are trolling us left and right for centuries and globalization made it more obvious and apparent than ever before, still the wheel keeps turning and turning and while i'm writing this on my hightech phone transmitting data via space to all of you... a child just died from hunger. And another one. And now someone commited suicide. We're merely tiny specks of dust in giant ant colony that lost control over itself. Now all left to do is to lean back and watch with a smile as the world burns up. ❤

Legendary statement.

It's definitely time the world got unfucked

Unfucking things would be great, we should work on that, we just need a lil wedge in the door

Unfuck? Like c'mon, let's pretend that the United States does care about the world, can you imagine that? We have a lotta of problems, in which, all of them are caused by the USA.

We’ve got to wait until the old folks running the world pass on first.

lol.

You already gave up bruh

In this economy, most of us can only survive instead of thrive. Best strategy I can think of is to share costs with friends or relatives and plan purchases carefully.

It'll only get worse

look out for the next one ;/

I basically got a free 2 year vacation from school lmao. Freshman year straight to Senior year.

feeling this way too, for me the lockdowns started in the end of 8th grade, and i’m not a dumb kid but i can’t focus on online school, but after the year and a half of not leaving my house i couldn’t get back into the groove of school, especially not high school, certain personal problems were made much worse and my school pretty much expelled me into a alternative program where i was extremely isolated, after i got done with that i had no motivation for school or just anytime, straight zeros all the way down, i dropped out of high school proper just recently after i moved to a new place, and it feels like that was all a waste of time and effort, not just bc covid royally fucked my entire high school experience but bc everything is just so fucked that that didn’t even matter from the beginning

Covid definitely didn't help but it didn't cause anything. Doomerism predates covid by years

The rich and powerful rely on so called "lazy bastards"for everything. When we the majority leave, they lose big time. The only way to not lose at a rigged game is to not play at all.

if there wasnt at least some level of social security these greedy rich fucks would all become targets of savage resistance groups

I, for one, would love free money. Trump and Congress all get free money, why can't we?

​@@benjamindavis2475 Trump isn't the President anymore.

​@benjamindavis2475 cus they don't want to tax the rich which is either themselves or their major donors.

That is well put. What's the point of living a great life right if no one will remember you? I as well will be dedicating myself to be being the best man I can be when it comes to my community and family.

I want to be a good friend to someone 200 years from now just as ones 200 years before me have

The world is a VERY big place. Your legacy, and mine for that matter, has an almost 100% chance of being insignificant on a macro scale. So focus on the micro. Be a good man. Love well. I know a woman who devotes her entire life to caring for abused animals. Nobody will remember this in 50 years, but that simply does not matter. She is a first rate hero and the good she does moment to moment is enough for her and should be enough for anyone. Scale is way overrated.

Shakespeare was only popular of and on until the 18th century, when a superfan made a great effort to popularise his work and he became known as a great playwright in English literature.

& even if your name does end up in some history book, after a few centuries you’ll just be another random name that a kid has to memorize for a test, then forget about right after

I find the opposite. Society encourages profuse empathy and selflessnes to the detriment of myself. Getting more assertive.

It's very important how do you apply the values.Too much empathy and care can transform in an utopia or lack of empathy and care can lead to a much agressive form of society.I can t say that today society show any form of empathy or care....everything is fake and comercial.

@@scary5455 I find it quite a complex situation--the society itself is structured in such a way that forces those of suicidal levels of empathy of selflessness to be at the bottom, yet this same society considers those values as the highest virtues.

Letting go of a dysfunctional world while at the same time creating and building a better world.

Better chance, but 0.00002% is a better chance than 0.00001%. You sure there's a good chance at this? And what would we even change it to? And how?

It didn't exist then either those ideal worlds don't exist anywhere

And no one to ask for directions either.

I think the world never existed and was just an ideology disguised as a world.

More accurately the final stage of it: just....acceptance. If the game is rigged and everything supporting it is failing, then whats the point playing the game in the first place and not just cheating? People say it gets better until they see their family starving or going without medication they need. The optimism in some people is honestly sickening.

​@@robertsteiner4696The only way to avoid being a doomer is to be completely ignorant of the world.

@@swaggadash9017ignorance is bliss after all

And yet people will ridicule and mock doomers for how they feel. Do these people think doomers choose to live the way they do? That it's some rose-tinted adventure? I think they do. People really don't have the empathy they preach about. I have a lot of it or maybe I have a normal amount but in comparison to other people, it seems greater. It's because of that empathy that I've become so nihilistic and misanthropic. The left whines and cries and gloats about empathy while simultaneously showing a complete lack of it as soon as a pro-lifer enters their proximity or someone who doesn't completely agree on how trans issues are being handled. (This isn't solely a leftist issue but they are the side that pretends they care so they're an easy example) One thing I'm not sure of is if it's a lack of empathy humans seem to have or if it's selective empathy. Either way, you're all dogshit.

Life was a Ponzi Scheme

Gen z = autism mouse dystopia explains this if you watch on RU-vid

Dont forget that Gen X is also the generation of Second Wave Feminism and no-fault divorce (which was started by the most overrated president back when he was Gov of Cali) so they both halved the value of labor and caused immense psychological damage on Millenials and Gen Z by splitting families

Im a dick for saying this, but stop the support or find a work around. You able to drive multiple hours elsewhere? Got any hobbies? How about online? Otherwise, since you supporting them, make them move with you. You need to look out for you. If they depending on you, they have to go where you go.

Can I recommend you a book to read? Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam

This is a problem because of the car culture and infrastructure we have. We have to drive everywhere all the time, for everything. I used to live in Chicago and after leaving, I realized how much of a blessing it was that I could go anywhere in the city without having to take my car and to have a lot of shops and restaurants within walking distance. If you have the funds, a change of scenery would help.

I'm running a Tabletop RPG game online for my friends to have a reason to hang with with them and break the isolation. You should try to organize an online experience that can also be turned into an IRL experience if needed be to break isolation.

The library, Church, and the social club - and, previously, bars and pubs - were the places to hang out where how much you pay per hour to hang out was negligible. Never look to a business for a good time to just hang out and socialise - which, I suggest, is what you're missing.

same situation here bud, 25 almost 26. About at the point where i've given up.

I'm 21 and I'm already done, I left my family and school, I've experienced all the good and bad, I've been in the military and fought, I've worked and bought everything I've wanted or needed, I've traveled everywhere I've wanted and seen everything I've wanted. I don't want a family or a house or any of that stuff. I know for certain I'm not going to work for the next 50 years for nothing, I'd be working with nothing to work towards to.

My brother in Adam and eve, it's gonna get worse. Jesus is coming soon. I say give your life to Jesus and he will do the rest. Believe in Him and you will have ever lasting life. ❤

@@koolycat4643 Nah, not even god can save us from this Cold, Dark world, if they even exist, that is

@@thetruecyrusplayz1256they dont.. they just dont soo

I feel that.

I don't get why you don't want to be friends with anyone who isn't exactly like you?

Its fine, until 100% of your friends are nothing like you. @@thewhitefalcon8539

​@@thewhitefalcon8539 Maybe it's because they feel that most people don't understand them.

+ dating being rigged where women are only after the top % of men. What sad times...

Right how do you take care of a child when you work 45 hrs a week and can’t pay rent. All while the older generations scream that we aren’t working hard enough, get a second job etc.

​@@NikosM112 look at it from the woman's perspective. We are often left with the hungry children. Of course we want a partner who can help financially. Staying single is often the only financial choice a woman has. Both genders are suffering.

@@glassycreek1991 Women lose nothing in a relationship. Only men. Women are not suffering.

@@NikosM112 well I suffer and I am a woman.

"I think bringing a child into this hell and then telling them you love them is sadistic asf" Wheeew this is hitting bro 😮‍💨👏🏾💯

@@austinjrbwe’re slowly coming to that conclusion 💯

Misery loves company.

I can see where you're coming from. I sympathize with it as well because I used to have the same thoughts. Nowadays, I do have a different perspective, however. I gain hope from the thought of doing everything I can to raise the next generation to have it better. Things are bad now, but we have it so bad because the world is so rapidly changing and we weren't properly prepared for it - and that's not necessarily our fault. But if we can examine the world around us and speculate possibilities on where it is going, we can make a difference and make that difference for our kids. I see so many people in our generation who are SO passionate about making a good difference in the world. That gives me hope. Hope that we can have the chance to bring someone into this world and give them the tools, knowledge, wisdom, and build the environment they need to have a better life and continue to make it better for future generations. To fuel them with that same passion that so many of us have. Maybe I'm delusional, but I just can't see a way that we are completely hopeless.

the school system has definitely gotten worse since covid. Violence against teachers by students has been rising as well as general disobedience. i graduated in 2020 when Covid had just set in, it seems like i just barely made it out before shit really hit the fan.

@FearGX I feel the same way. People tell you that "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take," but they never consider that you might have been handed a gun against your will and pushed onto a firing range you have no desire to be on.

What were those dices?

@@somerandomdude5043opportunity’s

You're still here @FearGX. You haven't lost every die you've thrown. Keep going and be strong...no matter what.

@@minimalbstolerance8113lmfao bro that saying is absolutely about basketball and not shooting guns. Unless you’re going for some kind of metaphor and I missed the point

A lot of it has to do with alienation with our work. Capitalism has alienated us from the direct satisfaction of our labor. The only reason why this youtuber is optimistic is because he got lucky on youtube. His channel is like that one black mirror episode where most people ride on stationary bikes to earn credits. And if end stage capitalism isn’t bad enough, we also have the terrifying consequences of climate change. I suggest reading Ted Kazinsky’s manifesto. While not perfect it is a good starting point. I also highly recommend the works of Noam Chomsky.

Work was the point, but specifically the work you actually like. Zoomers were born in a time where what you like is not what's good for you.

Working hard gives you work skills

@@JoshGoblin legit fucking comment for gen z

Gen z needed to create their own labor their own industry their own economy and their own empire

Let go of toxic people and situations. It's okay to be on your own 💜.

I'm a gen Z (97) but have similar parents who did the same.

That is painful... my sympathies.

Gen x’er here and diagnosed in 2019 with breast cancer shortly after watching my dad die of prostate cancer( which was what his father had; dying brutally after a late diagnosis) we might be sisters 😢

@@pamelqtaylor8335 hope you're feeling better now. Its a tough disease to get through and it can scar you for life mentally and physically but it will make you stronger.

I believe same is everywhere now. Talking in trains or buses is almost nonexsistant, expect relatives and drunks. People working in stores are generally nice, but abused by their higher-ups and some crazy old ladies that can drive anybody insane. I believe same is happening everywhere, one way or another. We just started to noticing it, problems are all very old by now.

I think that is by design. People can rise up if they are kept socially isolated or things are made to be isolating by design. The rich learned from the Gilded Age. The secret is many of us need to form groups that work towards the similar goals, but are separate. Think if BLM, Occupy Wall Street, and several other groups were working at the same time but not really aware of each other initially. That is how we change the system.

@@anthonycekic4509 YES. It is entirely by design, it's so much easier to control a people who think they're not strong enough to fight back. Always be willing to throw a brick at a cop with your fellow people.

You know what I think is funny? I'm older, Gen X, and I'm social, so when I'm at the grocery or out and about I talk to random strangers. You know who is put off by me and walks away? Anyone under 30. You all have been conditioned this way. You choose the online chat function for customer service so you don't have to talk to someone. You have your groceries delivered. I think your parents and their "don't talk to strangers" thing might have contributed to it, but most younger people I know avoid talking to people like the plague. (I've been told it's too anxiety producing and uses too much emotional bandwidth.) Talk to strangers. It is scary at first, but I've met a lot of people that way. I'd also suggest volunteering somewhere if you can. Most places are thrilled to get the help and you'll meet so many new people. Also, look for community groups. I just found a local garden club and went to their meeting. These women are so friendly and willing to help me learn things. Look into the programs at your local library. They have game nights and book clubs and they are usually free. (I worked at a library for a while. The only people who came to the book clubs were old ladies. Young people didn't want to be around that many people. But, those old ladies brought the best cookies to share!)

@Laurtew Stranger Danger started in the 80s and kept going in the 90s.

Glad your first steps were a fake pandemic rather than the very real vietnam war draft of the Great Depression of the 30s or post war WW2 rationing. Count yourself lucky.

Don’t you mean pandemic ??

@@josem588 No, it was planned. Look up Event 201 that was held at John's Hopkins in October 2019

The Jews would go on panic mode if that happened.

And then your generation flooded the host country with incompatible third world people and culture causing suppression of wages and fracturing social cohesion (it's a real thing look it up) all while increasing demand for jobs and housing, inflating housing and over stressing the social care systems that were calculated for the people of the host country. Let's villainize the native people of said host country and have it's own government work against them. Gee I wonder why it's all fecked goy but anyways let's import more because we're going to say no one wants to work or we need more workers. Enjoy the shit bed you made, day of the pillow awaits and these imports hate you.

Um, wow, this is enlightening. So things sucked even before the Boomer generation then?

@@cookiesmcsalsa1281 Sometimes but over all there is no precedent for this current hellish landscape they helped to create.

As someone who watched her father work hard and he was a success and I am now working hard and living a life I love, I think maybe you created a life you expected. Sometimes the rewards aren't what everyone says they should be, but I'm happy with what my work has gotten me.

@@cookiesmcsalsa1281 If you check out history. Things have sucked since the beginning of the human race.

whats the job

I believe in you man. Keep going. I’d hate to see you give up now that you’re just starting again! 🏍️

Lol don’t tell your boss what you’re doing in personal time. Always say you have to help family…. Hope you learned your lesson

The problem with rasing everyone wages is businesses just raise their prices to compensate it.

@@abemartinez9623 that’s toxic culture bosses shouldn’t care wether you have a sick relative to take care of or you wanna scratch your underboob in your own personal free time.

I was just recently observing a sizable influx of elderly/retired folks in my local gym lately. Many of which clearly didn't bother caring about their health or fitness for the first 60-70 years of their life so to see them clinging to their last few moments of life is pathetic. I know that's harsh but it's how I feel. Probably sounds harsher to you as a person who cares for them. But they're the ones with all the property and assets. They look down at me like I'm some impediment to enjoying their pension. All of which I will never see. And they clutter up the place, my town. Taking up 5 parking spaces with their boats and RVs. I hope my life is cut short around 50 and go out with a bang so I don't become whatever they are.

No it hasn't! American healthcare is the worst in the first world. All the time, energy, and effort has been put into extracting the most money.

@@thewhitefalcon8539 I can understand your sentiment, there is a lot that I feel needs reform when it comes to the American healthcare system in terms of sccessibility. I'm coming at this from the perspective of a UK nurse - while more accessible. however, there are still some negatives even within a socialised healthcare system. Overall though, in terms of technological and scientific enhancements over the centuries, the life expectancy of humans has significantly increased for the majority living in first world countries. What I feel needs more work now, however, is a shift towards making life easier for the time we do live, not just focusing on how many years we get but improving the quality of it.