Is the world really going to shit or is everything just exaggerated by sensationalist, fear-mongering media?

[mister meaner]

Rising prices on everything, climate change, civil unrest, political tensions between countries, etc.

The doomerposting done by the media is starting to get to me - one example of this is how new viruses and infections like monkeypox are now being circlejerked by publications when these would’ve just gone unheard of before Covid.

I unsure if this world is worth one bringing new life into anymore, and that scares me. Is it exaggerated or is the world fucked?

I think I already know the answer but I don’t think I’m ready to hear it…

 

[not william stenchever]

The world's always been fucked and people have brought new life into it anyways. The only difference nowadays is that the fuckedness is vastly amplified by technological means. Consequently this means the inbred overly wealthy fucks with delusions of godhood have those delusions also amplified by technological means.

Do with this information what you will.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

yes

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

Some things are sensational, some not.

• If you are going to raise kids, do not let them use the Internet.
• Do not leave your child unattended or with others.
• Do not let them watch live television.
• Purchase physical media or download it into a local network library.
• Homeschool your child.
• Provide physical books for reading material. Avoid newspapers and magazines.
• Do not listen to talkshow radio with ads in cars.
• Make sure all video games are offline-only and do not require any microtransactions (it may be easier just to pirate all of your games and their expansions, dlc, etc).
• Do not bring your child shopping with you in stores around or during pride month.
• Only allow the child to use a computer with Linux and network turned off.
• Do not allow your child to befriend children of the ghetto (this includes all whites, blacks, hispanics, and asians in ghetto neighborhoods).
• Teach your child sexual health according to whichever of the two sexes they were both with.
• Make your child aware that pets are animals, not humans like us, and should be treated with respect according to their individual psychologies for optimal training and care (to reduce chance of furry or beastiality).
• Take your child to a gun ranges when they are a teenager (have them fire a gun at least once).

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

It's surprising that there haven't been worse pandemics. As for monkeypox, the gay man can attend a street celebration in his honor, several orgies, and fly across the world to attend more orgies before symptoms show. He can order young twinks to his door with an app.

A sufficiently motivated asshole could take over one of the nuclear arsenals and have a decent chance of triggering WW3. Does North Korea have an h-bomb yet? Don't forget the Pakistan v. India rivalry.

 

[Meat Target]

There's a lot of fucked shit, and technology makes it seem worse.

But if you go outside and touch grass, you'll see that there's still plenty of good in this world.



Where sin runs deep, grace abounds all the more.

 

[Doji]

If everything is really going to shit we're fucked anyway.

 

[Chongqing]

Futa surgery now exists, so I don't think it's sensationalism.

 

[Dysnomia]

It's certainly worse than I remember it in the 80s and 90s. That's not just me being "old". I feel like a lot of things are happening at once at mach speed now when the bad seemed more slowed down then. Where I am it feels like July by April now and sometimes it doesn't cool off until November. I was wearing summer clothes on December 26th. Then you get these polar vortex things where it's hella cold for a week with snow dumped everywhere and the next thing you know it's 50+ outside. Lather rinse repeat. It's killing my sinuses.

Usually it was just cold with ocassional snow. Now winter and late spring constantly fight each other when it should be in the 30s and 40s on average with some 20s sprinkled in.

All the gender stuff is crazy. We've never had this before. I refuse to believe that people are just trooning out of the closet because acceptance. It's a trend. All these people who yeeted the teets and chopped the cock are going to regret it. And the transkids are all going to end up with mental health problems and suicides because their parents and doctors are kookoo.

 

[Lurker]

I need to believe that everything is terrible and going to shit so I can justify my desire to hurt or kill people I do not like.

I need to live in a constant state of anger and fear at all times because I have nothing else going on in my life that actually matters.

 

[OrionBalls]

If you're connected with your local community, talk with your neighbors, play outside, all that jazz, then it suddenly doesn't matter what some doomer says. Personal human interaction is the key to happiness. Join a Historical Society, or at the very least, make some pot brownies for the people who live next door.

 

[Idiotron]

Compared to the past, things are great.
Most of us take way too many things for granted, such as clean running water in every house and grocery stores at every corner.
Once you get used to the abundance of the 21st century, a mild crisis is suddenly the end of the world.

 

[The Ugly One]

Some things are sensational, some not.

• If you are going to raise kids, do not let them use the Internet.
• Do not leave your child unattended or with others.
• Do not let them watch live television.
• Purchase physical media or download it into a local network library.
• Homeschool your child.
• Provide physical books for reading material. Avoid newspapers and magazines.
• Do not listen to talkshow radio with ads in cars.
• Make sure all video games are offline-only and do not require any microtransactions (it may be easier just to pirate all of your games and their expansions, dlc, etc).
• Do not bring your child shopping with you in stores around or during pride month.
• Only allow the child to use a computer with Linux and network turned off.
• Do not allow your child to befriend children of the ghetto (this includes all whites, blacks, hispanics, and asians in ghetto neighborhoods).
• Teach your child sexual health according to whichever of the two sexes they were both with.
• Make your child aware that pets are animals, not humans like us, and should be treated with respect according to their individual psychologies for optimal training and care (to reduce chance of furry or beastiality).
• Take your child to a gun ranges when they are a teenager (have them fire a gun at least once).

You only need to do the first one to prevent them from becoming furries or troons.

 

[Soycast Guy]

Rising prices are certainly making everyone’s lives a lot harder, and people do put way too much importance on politics so there’s political tensions. I don’t know anyone who’s afraid of monkeypox unironically and people have been dooming about climate change since the early 1900’s. The world isn’t gonna end though, but things are harder than they were before.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Compared to the past, things are great.
Most of us take way too many things for granted, such as clean running water in every house and grocery stores at every corner.
Once you get used to the abundance of the 21st century, a mild crisis is suddenly the end of the world.

I love central air and people not dying in childbirth, as well as no human sacrifices.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I need to believe that everything is terrible and going to shit so I can justify my desire to hurt or kill people I do not like.

I need to live in a constant state of anger and fear at all times because I have nothing else going on in my life that actually matters.

"please dont make me face the wall if the time comes"

 

[Moths]

Both

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

Some things are sensational, some not.

• If you are going to raise kids, do not let them use the Internet.
• Do not leave your child unattended or with others.
• Do not let them watch live television.
• Purchase physical media or download it into a local network library.
• Homeschool your child.
• Provide physical books for reading material. Avoid newspapers and magazines.
• Do not listen to talkshow radio with ads in cars.
• Make sure all video games are offline-only and do not require any microtransactions (it may be easier just to pirate all of your games and their expansions, dlc, etc).
• Do not bring your child shopping with you in stores around or during pride month.
• Only allow the child to use a computer with Linux and network turned off.
• Do not allow your child to befriend children of the ghetto (this includes all whites, blacks, hispanics, and asians in ghetto neighborhoods).
• Teach your child sexual health according to whichever of the two sexes they were both with.
• Make your child aware that pets are animals, not humans like us, and should be treated with respect according to their individual psychologies for optimal training and care (to reduce chance of furry or beastiality).
• Take your child to a gun ranges when they are a teenager (have them fire a gun at least once).

My kid sells drugs to your honor student.

 

[ThicClaw]

All the gender stuff is crazy. We've never had this before. I refuse to believe that people are just trooning out of the closet because acceptance. It's a trend. All these people who yeeted the teets and chopped the cock are going to regret it. And the transkids are all going to end up with mental health problems and suicides because their parents and doctors are kookoo.

Doctors and therapists that just throw any mental illness at a child/teen, which further reinforces their delusions of being stunning and strong, brave and unique individuals who should be recognized for their "struggles", are fuel for this fire.

 

[Catler]

There's a lot of fucked shit, and technology makes it seem worse.

But if you go outside and touch grass, you'll see that there's still plenty of good in this world.

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Where sin runs deep, grace abounds all the more.

This basically, “touch grass” has merit even if it’s mostly used by idiots.

I’ll go out for a while in my yard, lay in the hammock, listen to the birds, and think to myself “it’s not really all that bad”. What I read online just doesn’t match the immediate reality around me.

Disconnecting even for a short while in incredibly good your mental health. It might even be the most important thing one can do for their overall mental health.