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1) it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the current system;
2) the current system is ending, soon. it is not sustainable, socially, politically, environmentally;
3) our dispreference for the end of the world (nuclear war) diminishes — our willingness to take risks with collective survival increases — as something similarly scary seems already baked in, a sunk cost. the end of the world seems less worse-than-the-alternatives than it used to seem.
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@interfluidity Acceptance... i feel it too. Quite the high to see my childfree disposition adequate in a way i could not have imagined when i formed it.
But i think i am not all that exemplary of non-us people, if i had to take a guess denial is much more common here in Germany / the EU.
It seems a broad theme, covering covid (which is apparently non-existing) to climate catastrophy (which is mentioned, but ignored). Most i see aside from Mastodon is just carrying on, and masto itself seems like a very exclusive club.
This feels like a meme used too much, too early. Like the dog in the burning room. Only now, it is punk's "no future" that seems like it would belong here rather than in the 80s.
I wonder what the general feeling in non-us and non-eu areas is, not much on the news.
