Ging

I can understand being hopeful for something greater taking it’s place post-collapse, but why wish a downfall for an entire team of humans that feel pain just as much as you and I?

Comfortable. Not drinking too much.

we traded uncertainty for reliability

Reliability is still a privilege for fewer and fewer imo. For many more it’s fragile, conditional, and easily stripped away by illness, layoffs, or a single bad landlord. The fact that conditions improved over a century ago doesn’t license complacency. Those gains were forced by people who refused to accept tiny, daily violences as normal. If you think we should stop pushing once life stops being medieval, ok maybe? Not really, no. Don’t pretend that’s moral clarity; it’s settling. Your ancestors may be jealous, but they’d also argue that you maybe lost the plot.

I don’t fully disagree but don’t you kinda believe it’s embarrassing that we have to micromanage our lives to “reclaim” scraps of fulfilling time. People shouldn’t have to hack their days just to have time for joy, rest, or growth. Society’s standards and workplaces should be designed so basic dignity and meaningful downtime are built in, not something we beg or gamify away.

Everyone’s taking the ‘what an odd thing to feel obligated to announce at all’ view/reaction
Does anyone else have an internal critic that starts also screaming “wait, they also know everyone can’t react any other way–are they banking on us being unable to let go of the numerous suspicions that will continue to live rent-free in our minds for days?”

I know I’m being paranoid, but please someone help bring me back down to a level-headed take on this matter I beg you!

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