It is late Sunday night (early Monday morning) and I find myself feeling annoyed. Granted, I often find myself annoyed these days and I wonder if I should just throw my hands up and ignore what happens in the world, like so many others seem to. It is just that I wonder if they are actually ignoring it, or they are trying to ignore it but still feel it weigh on them.
Is it better to repress than address?
I feel a bit like in that poem "First they came" but it is most of the world not speaking out against what is happening - and it has been happening for years already. We are in an escalation phase now, where the speed of disruption is advancing and the world is becoming far more volatile. This isn't a controlled explosion though, because so much is happening that unintended repercussions are going to ripple through humanity for decades to come.
It makes me worry about the future, because that is where my daughter will be, and at this point, I don't see how the world is going to be safer, healthier, or have more opportunity to create a good life. It seems more like the majority are just going to have to make do with less, and that creates a lot more inevitable issues that we have already faced previously.
We keep repeating the past.
And the way we are operating at the global scale, is going to exacerbate problems at the local levels, which is where we live our daily lives. We are already living in an environment where community has been decimated by technology and economy, but it is going to have even more increasing pressure as nationality, identity, background and ideology are fought on the streets, neighbour against neighbour. In some places, it is already there, isn't it?
Do you live in a suburb like that?
Would you want to?
I think a lot of privileged people have their head in the sand, not really recognising how fragile their daily way of life is and how quickly it can shift. Perhaps they have a decent job, live in a good suburb and their investments are doing well enough. But what most don't realise is that their stability is dependent on thousands of other factors that are outside of their control and often being delivered by people who are not financially or socially stable. Privilege makes us blind to the concessions we receive at the expense of others, and often to the supply chain that enables the privilege we enjoy.
Currently, I feel that a lot of people are putting their head in the sand in the hope that they can just get on with their lives and everything is going to be okay. Yet, while ideally it will be okay, I don't think it is going to be for a while at least. Instead, I think the world is going to get much more volatile and dangerous, and it is going to continue to spill out onto the local streets as various people take matters into their own hands, after snapping in frustration.
How long can you suffer before you snap?
We see in the movies agents getting tortured to extremes and keeping their mouths shut, but they are just movies. In reality, the majority of people are soft and unaccustomed to extreme pain and suffering, as well as conditioned to be more emotionally reactive to even minor negative stimulus. This means that as life challenge increases, more people move toward the extreme end, where people who were struggling get dropped off the edge into the snap categories.
What do they do?
When it is one or two, it is seen as an outlier issue, but when it is happening weekly or daily, it has to be addressed a a common problem, and something that should be addressed. For instance, here is a map of mass shootings in the US from 2025.
How many more red dots in a year before something is done?
There was a shooting in Austin a few hours ago, which they seem so far to suspect is an act of terrorism in response to what is happening in Iran. But, is it that clear cut, or it that some person just snapped? It is a question that can't be answered, because it is impossible to tell what truly goes on in another's mind. But I suspect that a lot of these events, whether based in religious ideology or some kid getting revenge on peers that teased them, are performed by people who for whatever reason, just can't control the responses to the way they feel. And the more people who are pushed toward that edge, the more who will fall over.
And I think that the events that are happening globally now, driven by the outrage porn of the media companies enraging viewers for profit, are pushing more and more to that edge. And not only pushing them to the edge, but also making life difficult away from the edge, so there is less to lose.
What would you do with nothing to lose?
Society is failing and I am unsure if we will ever come back from the brink.
Taraz
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We often obsess over tangible value, the kind that shines on graphs, but your post reminds us that true “gold” is what slowly trickles into everyday moments: a quiet Sunday, an honest conversation, or simply time well spent.
I appreciate your sincerity, @tarazkp. In a world that chases after the ephemeral, reading your words is like taking a necessary pause to recalibrate what really matters in our lives. Happy Sunday!
The challenge is, recalibrate to what? Too often I feel that there is nowhere to go. Maybe I should live alone in the forest.
I literally live in a forest, in a rural area 10 minutes by car from the city. The tranquillity is wonderful, although the cold weather does take its toll...
It is cold everywhere I guess. I am not in the city, but perhaps I should go into the depths. A lonely island in the archipelago here, with no electricity.
Their really is nowhere to go, maybe if you someone with your mindset were president of the free world things will change, or maybe you'd do a 180 and change on us!🙂
It's a pretty bleak picture of the future for sure. I worry about my nieces and nephews. I have a feeling it is going to be a hard world for them to navigate.
It seems like it but we'll always have hope. All my life ive been hearing " thins will get better", safe to say things havent gotten any better
When instability threatens the future of our children, it forces us to question what kind of world we are collectively shaping.
Plus, I did know that the US is facing mass shooting issue, but to this extent, not at all. I don't know, why they are even willing to play external wars, or in their words, self-defense against predictability, while the internal self decays. Every inhumane thing is being normalized and nothing else. I wish I had taken my camping classes seriously, I could had enjoyed some peaceful time in the woods...
Maybe they have just accepted the shootings for what they are?
If they were gonna take strong measures against the shootings, they would have, but every measure suggested deviates from the fundamentals of the country itself(like banning guns entirely)
The idea of living on a deserted island hasn’t left me since I first read Robinson Crusoe 🤣
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Although it may appear simpler to overlook the disorder surrounding us, i think this approach only worsens the issues we encounter as a society.
I often tell my wife we are lucky and need to count ourselves as such. We are just one catastrophy away from being without anything. Fingers will remain crossed.
As for the violence and people reaching their breaking points. I agree. My brother and I talk about this sometimes. It seems people are becoming more volatile and angerier every day. I would assume it is not just one thing but a combination of social media, financial stress, etc.
Some days I try to just focus on my own little world, but it’s hard not to notice that things feel off. I don’t think most people are pretending nothing’s wrong I think they’re just exhausted and trying to cope in their own way. I know I do that sometimes too.
But when you have a child, it hits differently. You start thinking about the kind of world they’re growing up into, and it’s scary. It’s not just headlines anymore it feels personal.
Could be that or could be that they are at least attempting to be doing things without the virtue signalling (to the point of ridiculousness).