My longing for the days of around 2010-2013 has gotten intense over the last few months. I've just become disillusioned by everything and my personal political affiliation has more or less become "Please, God, Just Leave Me The Hell Alone". All forms of media being made, all discussions with friends and family, all memes, everything, it's all gotta be about who's oppressed by what and who's awful for what new, nonsensical reason. (Honestly, from now on, unless someone's set a puppy on fire, I don't want to hear about why they're problematic.) I'm just exhausted from it. I don't give a fuck about skin color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any of that shit because it's the least interesting thing to me about a person, but now that makes me a Nazi. I wish I could step away from all these garbage ideologies that have taken over for some reason, but that's not possible because nearly fucking everything is based around that shit now. And if I just want a break from it, one half of the people I know will say that's just my 'privilege' talking (even though I'm part of a ~marginalized group~) and by not constantly embroiling myself in their particular brand of IdPol I'm somehow helping their opposition. It seems the only escape from the constant bombardment of "You are bad and evil because of [insert quality you can't change here]!" is to disconnect from the Internet and live as a hermit somewhere with only older books and films for entertainment.
I'm sorry this is so Autistic, but this is really the only place I have to say this stuff without being accused of being with one side of the shrieking morons or the other. I don't know if it's The 'Rona, the protests, or some combination of both, but lately every morning I wish I could wake back up in, like, 2012 and have everything that happened since then just be some sort of crazy nightmare. I don't see how this can be fixed anymore, I can't believe the absurd levels of tribalism so many have been reduced to. I swear we're only a couple steps above people just yelling "ME TRIBE BETTER THAN YOU TRIBE!" at each other.