@turbarius The grand fall you are looking for happened a hundred years ago and then again in 1939-1945. The rest is the afterglow and now the falling night. The cannons you are listening for have long gone silent; inspect the debris now.
At the heart of every GenZ mental derangement is knowing, across the entire timeline of humanity, that they missed the peak by a hairwidth. Entire lives, on the slope down.
« Je suis Ulysse, fils de Laërte, dont les ruses sont fameuses et la gloire touche au ciel. J'habite dans la claire Ithaque ; une montagne la domine, le Nérite aux bois tremblants [...] C'est une île rocheuse, une nourrice de guerriers, et moi, je ne connais rien de plus beau que cette terre. » Odyssée, chant IX.
there is a theory that depression is the soul’s way of rejecting the life you’re forcing yourself to live. your spirit shuts down when you’re too far from your purpose, people or path.
There’s a cult hiding beneath the earth that has existed since the fall of the Roman Empire who has been systematically destroying any chances of me having this; from making short haired tomboys into lesbians and making muscle cars expensive and shittier, all because they hate me
“Finally, now that I’ve gotten my bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD at the age of 30, I can apply for my first real job. I’m sure I will get one quickly with my extensive academic background.”
One of the astonishing revelations of the Covid era is that the nation-state no longer exists.
There are only corporations, cartels, mafias, militaries, intelligence agencies, and the owners of capital.
These groups are supranational, above any law, and they believe they are allowed to kill people (through wars, assassinations, and profitable stochastic harms including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and pollution).
While there are subtle differences and ongoing rivalries between these groups, they share the goal of wealth, power, and control over others.
Over time they are merging into one giant predatory blob — Global Monopoly Capitalism.
Now with AI they have the ability to shape nearly all knowledge production and thus our perceptions of reality itself.
The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.