Just imagine. The entire modern economy, pretty much anywhere, but certainly in any “Western” nation, is now based on the idea that everyone male and female, works full time…
Universities have become wholly female-dominated. So have many, many professional fields. Most workplaces cater to the wants of middle-class women. So does most government messaging. So does the entire “field” of HR and recruiting…
At the same time, birth rates are crashing to totally unsustainable levels. Children aren’t raised properly at all, and are shipped off to “childcare” or to older relatives, as early as possible. Parents no longer no, or care, how to raise kids.
Cook for your family? Congrats, you’re an outlier. Most people seem to view cooking as some sort of “luxury”, and instead base most meals on either frozen shit, or takeaway and deliver, depending on their background…
Marriage is broken, and hell, most millennials don’t even bother with it. Divorces are higher than ever, and many couples barely even see, or talk to, each other, let alone their kids, anymore. So many kids are from broken homes, now, whatever their background or race…
Yet jobs are still flying offshore (never mind automation. It’s not there yet), and immigrants are still piling in to every Western country, partly to keep the birth rates up, and partly to keep house prices and rents ever increasing… Oh, and to push wages down, of course.
This, despite more “locals” working than ever before. This, despite women demanding ever more catering to from corporate, and all of the “equity” bullshit…
There’s no way any of this is sustainable, and yet it is everywhere… In every single “developed” country.
Some people here like to talk about Russia, but christ, look at their birth rates. Look at China, too. It’s not just “American allies and adjacents” that this is affecting. It’s almost everywhere, with a few very notable exceptions…
Amazing to think that “women's rights” and runaway corporatism, plus unlimited contraceptives (arguably) may be what dooms us, let alone all the trans kids raised on hormones shit…
I would say that maybe some parts of humanity can still correct this ship, but I’m not so sure anymore…
I doubt even in 1980 people would have thought that fucking Nigeria and India would inherit the Earth, but here we are…
/rant
Thanks all.
I guess the tunnel towards even some sort of… “Normalcy” and “stability” just seems to be getting longer and longer…
I don’t have a good life wherein I’m still depressed. That’s not it. I have a shit life, with no one (let’s say IRL, because I don’t want to discount that I value you all), full of regret and pain.
My past and present are pain, and I just… Can’t see how I can turn it around.
I keep trying, but I just don’t get anywhere. And I’m increasingly feeling like I’m fundamentally too stupid, or something.
It shouldn’t be this hard to just… Get through life.
So… I dunno, I just… I wish that effort and intention were commensurate with “reward”, but they’re not. Not in the current world “we’ve” built. 🤷🏻♂️
In the next two weeks I’m going to have to go into debt to pay medical bills. With all my other stresses right now, I… Just don’t quite know how to stay afloat. 😔
As terrible as it sounds - fuck the world, lol.