Every Gen in the history of humanity has thought they are special/doomed/living in the end times and we've managed to not kill ourselves so far. Of course at some point there will probably be a global nuclear holocaust or whatever but that will pass too, and in any case best you can do is your small part to live a good life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860018&forum_id=2:#49839167)

Totally agree about living a good life. Also, I'm politically involved so I'm even trying to do something about the direction of things. But I'm just really pessimistic about where things are going. Is this what blackpilled is?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860018&forum_id=2:#49839173)

I'm right there with you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860018&forum_id=2:#49839221)

The real immediate concern I think is that the West is totally listless when it doesn't have religion. We were built on Christianity for 2000k years and now on a societal level that's vaporized within the span of post-WWII. At worst people are entirely self interested and at best they prioritize their family, but that is still very narrowly self interested compared to how society used to function even in the recent past.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860018&forum_id=2:#49839226)

Our financial system is also more-or-less entirely predicated on growth in the energy supply. And while it continues to grow from a total perspective, it has not grown enough from a per capita perspective. So you have major world powers basically beefing with one another because there isn't enough of the key energy supplies to go around. Particularly heavier oil that is used for diesel and jet fuel.

Various shortages have led to spikes in energy prices which in turn has led to an increase in the debt bubble. This in turn has made it harder to grow because more and more productivity must be used to manage the debt.

Advancements in technology have been in part a reaction to this (if not consciously, but because of incentives.) And these advancements in technology have made life seem easier, even while it is actually becoming harder in a sense to make the system work as a whole.

I think people understand this, at least at a subconscious level. And that is why there is a great malaise. We are effectively all forced to serve a machine that does not work because it is built around an aberration (from a population and energy supply perspective.)

It sounds like a dismal blackpill, but I think things will actually be better in 20 - 30 years. It's just that going through a population bottleneck will not be fun given the way the financial system works. Elites are trying to manage this (directly and indirectly). And as a byproduct, the elite class has attracted some real scumbags for the most part.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860018&forum_id=2:#49840002)

That's not good. Don't want ur thoughts to get darker. Fwiw I am positive/optimistic about life (personally) and humanity (think we will all do good). Lmk if I can do anything to tilt u away from dark thoughts. It's really not worth being blackpilled.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860018&forum_id=2:#49840825)

Also, I really hope we preserve enough knowledge in non-electronic form that we don't have to start over too far in the past if all electronics get fucked by an EMP or some kind of interference. But I also don't want us to pick up where we left off technologically (or socially) because that's probably too late, even assuming a decent amount of history is recorded/passed on about why everything went wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860018&forum_id=2:#49840886)