Will things get better? - Will the shit show that is 2020 eventually end or is this a "new normal?"

[Gravityqueen4life]

nope

 

[The Spice boi]

Sure, I don't lack food or shelter, I can travel to any place in the world, I have a device in my pocket that allows me to read every book, listen to any song, watch any porn, and to talk to anyone I ever met.
But #BLM is really stupid.

Oh hell yeah, couldn't agree more

 

[muh_moobs]

This is the new normal.

Leftist radicals will always have something to riot about. And the way everyone fell over for Coronavirus has told world governments that people will fall over and surrender all of their rights as long as the government makes them scared enough.

Cash money is rapidly becoming no good, and microchips are on the way.

By spurning our futures we sacrificed our children to Moloch. Sure, we'll be kept comfortable and placated as long as we continue to consume, but the good times are over.

 

[Goyslop Muncher]

You’ll only really find “kill whitey” stuff on social media

It's on the news 24/7
It's in youtube videos promoted by Google on the front page
It's preached like a cult in every school
Every business says they agree with it

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

Buy a gun, do some muay thai if you have the money. Base peace of mind comes from personal security. Understand the Fiat currency in your pocket is being printed, like all fiat before, into worthlessness. Take measures to invest in useful prep items and long term commodities to preserve your wealth.

all that is useless because when an actual break down of society starts to happen individual power centres will form to fill the gap and take authoritarian control of your life. Under the new regimes you won't need to worry for your safety because the government will take care of that for you. What everyone should do is move to places where the government that springs up won't be worse than where you left.

 

[Idiotron]

Of course it will.
Despite what people think, we still live in very safe and secure times.
The virus is almost done in Europe, life is getting back to normal.
US is having riots similar to the 1992 ones but nothing major, will fuck up the economy a bit but shit like this is relatively mild, from the perspective of human history.
There's some tension with China and India.
Apparently, they have some agreement now that nobody can carry guns near the border so it's soldiers beating each other to death, crazy shit. From what I know (I did some reading because I was interested), this has been going on for over 100 years.
It's not the first time and it won't be the last.
Other than that, things are mostly going as usual, that's not a good thing to say about some places but oh well.

People are overreacting.
Mostly Americans and somewhat Brits because they, especially Millenials and Zoomers, don't really have memories of times when it was really bad. Now, they will. Welcome to the club.

 

[DudeWithTheFood]

It's on the news 24/7
It's in youtube videos promoted by Google on the front page
It's preached like a cult in every school
Every business says they agree with it

Do you really think businesses actually care lmao

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I don't think so, the whole "best time to be alive" is just massively bullshit lie being told by the rich establishment so they can get the masses to keep things in order:

• In the social sense there is massive drug epidemic, you have a lot of people who are not only disconnected from one another, but have no real ability to communicate. You have either people who know they can do whatever they want and face minimal repercussions or absolute doormats who will literally say thanks when their children are killed by the former groups.
• In the spiritual sense we have decades of brainwashing that religion is "bad and uncool" that resulted in a society that replaces religion with politics/consumerism/both and fractured communities where no one trusts the other.
• In the technological sense we have embraced convenience at the cost of privacy and, eventually, progress. Technology is now gatekept by massive corporations who will, at best, buy competitiors and, at worst, outright sabotage them and use the media and copyright to kill them. Those corporations also develop systems for dystopian countries which will inevitably be used by the west when it will be proven to be a success.
• In the educational sense, academia have turned into places where ideas die (unless you are at STEM, but even there there is a push to gatekeep certain subjects, ie, "AI is racist"). You cannot question any "truths" without massively risking your economic situation. Not to mention the incoming student loan bubble bursting. Besides academia, people have zero respect for any manual labour and would happily vote to have slave labour immigrated in and do it for them. Finally, the average citizen is, if anything, dumber than ever - The insane amount of information available through the internet has caused people to lose their ability to question information or try to educate themselves on additional fields.
• Politically we have the conservatives be the voice of reason and the democrats to go for increasing extremes, including actual attacks on people. Bolstered by their power through the media. Eventually the democrats will get a win and then the autists will run the asylum.

There are probably more things to note, like the obesity epidemic, the reduced amount of whites in pretty much all western countries, the multiple economic bubbles... Things will only get worse but rather than a glorious war to kill all of us, we will just live in ever worse conditions with no privacy and a constant sense of dread over being targeted socially for percieved slights.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The insane amount of information available through the internet has caused people to lose their ability to question information or try to educate themselves on additional fields.

It's such a bizarre irony that the vast amount of information available on the internet has only made people way stupider, I mean stop and think how contradictory that is.

 

[TFT-A9]

It's such a bizarre irony that the vast amount of information available on the internet has only made people way stupider, I mean stop and think how contradictory that is.

Not all information is equal

If someone says "I'm smart because I spend hours a day reading blogs that do critical analyses of Steven Universe" I'm going to call them a retard because while that may be a lot of information they're taking in, it's about the biggest waste of brainspace imaginable

It's practically a given that your brain does not have a limitless capability to retain data, and honestly if I didn't already have a fuckton of genuinely useful shit crammed into my brain's filing cabinets I'd probably be fairly ashamed of knowing as much as I do about certain other pointless shit

 

[Dom Cruise]

Not all information is equal

If someone says "I'm smart because I spend hours a day reading blogs that do critical analyses of Steven Universe" I'm going to call them a retard because while that may be a lot of information they're taking in, it's about the biggest waste of brainspace imaginable

It's practically a given that your brain does not have a limitless capability to retain data, and honestly if I didn't already have a fuckton of genuinely useful shit crammed into my brain's filing cabinets I'd probably be fairly ashamed of knowing as much as I do about certain other pointless shit

Yes, people have all this information, but no good way to sort it and not all of it is equal, like you said.

So they wind up getting drawn to the bad information, the stuff that appeals to their emotional biases rather than the truth and the rest is history.

 

[Jeffrey Epstein]

We are going to get world peace.

World peace will come as an irremovable applet embedded on the elon musk neurallink 1.0, as part of it's 'pink pill' operating system. That walrus that smells like an elephant standing in front of you in line at Target? You can instantly change her into someone hot and smell some nice orchids instead. That guy who you've capitulated to who also hasn't had enough of beating your white ass into submission? Well, poof, he's gone from your vision now, and your not sure if you're being tickled by a fluttering butterfly or if you're just experiencing what we'll call, 'nothing'(if he bashes your skull in super hard, we've got the extra neurons to compensate for it!). Can't give consent to someone you're unnatracted to? Well, please activate golem mode, and you'll feel like you're in a giant egg yoke while channeling helen keller, all while unbeknownst to yourself, a giant rainbow sperg is covering you with it's feces.

yes, YOU and your friends can be literal boomer wojaks, masquerading as the stars of the matrix movies, jus zooming around in your tesla CYBERTRUCK together, in the only country left on planet earth, china.

 

[Schinna]

Riots of a size which hasn't been seen in decades have consumed the nation for a month but retards still have the audacity to say that this is a phenomenon confined to social media.
There's a point where the consequences of the constant denial of our situation stops being only denial and starts to overlap with malicious intent.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's such a bizarre irony that the vast amount of information available on the internet has only made people way stupider, I mean stop and think how contradictory that is.

Nah, it's already been called in a Brave New World. If the 1984 dystopia has strict ban on transfer of information, BNW has such an outflow of information, filtering actual information is nearly impossible.
But the worst thing is that today's world has the worse of both worlds. Not just an excess of information, but the actual important information either gets deleted or rewritten.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Riots of a size which hasn't been seen in decades have consumed the nation for a month but retards still have the audacity to say that this is a phenomenon confined to social media.
There's a point where the consequences of the constant denial of our situation stops being only denial and starts to overlap with malicious intent.

This is true, on the flipside there is part of me that wonders if no, things aren't going to get better.

I've been reading the tea leaves of American culture for a long time and even long before SJWs showed up I sensed something was wrong.

The first thing that happened was American culture started to just get incredibly stupid, total dumbed down, lowest common denominator shit, that progressively got worse and worse until we hit the next step, the only thing worse than sheer idiocy and that's people started getting progressively more hateful, malicious and violent.

Idiocy+hate is a baaaaaaaad combination.

Think of this modern culture as what you get when you combine the idiotic, hedonistic, Jerry Springer, spring break, Girls Gone Wild, reality TV culture with hardcore Marxist politics, the result ain't fucking pretty.

It just seems like in the modern world after time goes on things get a little worse and a little worse step by step, we're almost at a breaking point now, where we go from here is anybody's guess, I want to believe things will get better, but we've seen the pattern so far and the pattern shows things getting worse.

 

[UntimelyDhelmise]

At this point I'm 40/60 that things get better after this year. A lot of what's happening right now is due to the election and the left kicking and screaming with all their might to get their way and kick Orange Man out of office. But even that aside there's still a multitude of other issues that have been slowly festering for decades that a second Trump term likely isn't going to magically fix.

I hold on to the hope that there will eventually be an upswing regardless, because if I don't my mind immediately goes to the idea that we're at the start of the end that my doomer parents have drilled into my head since I was fucking 5 years old, and that's a guaranteed swallowing of the whole bottle of black pills for me if I allow my state of mind to go there.

 

[tampax pearl]

Things will get better. But you have to work to make them better, friend. Maybe you can dip your toes into gardening, or find a new hobby to pursue. Try reading the Tao Te Ching! Finding positive outlets for frustration can only ever help. Quarantine is the perfect time to develop as a person, to analyze what's happening, and to decide where you stand in all of it. I can't guarantee EVERYONE is trying to improve, but as long as you are, things should be okay.

 

[Saint Alphonsus]

You’ll only really find “kill whitey” stuff on social media (and even that’s becoming less common because I think most people either stopped caring, got bored, or just found another cause to join).

Outside of social media, most people just want to live their lives and not worry about a mob to ruin everything. The only really crazy people you’ll see are mostly in the big cities (who also happen to be spreading the “everything white is bad” message on social media).

I live next to several "vibrants" in my gated community (LOL it's not actually well protected--the gate is pathetically easy to breach, as I have done many times as a teen). During the height of l'affaire Floyd, they were all--at home. They still talk and interact with their white neighbors.


I actually feel for those who refuse to hate whitey even though it is socially acceptable to do so right now. CoronaviRaceWar has been a crisis of conscience for most people. I feel for them like I feel for store employees who don't make a fuss when shoppers enter maskless.

 

[King Ghidorah]

The "le 2020 stinky" meme will be gone by the next year and the "le 2021 stinky" meme will go away after that and so on and so forth it's all cyclical you see

 

[Salubrious]

I think people are mostly unemployed and bored because COVID took so many jobs away. Combined with everyone having to wear masks, and it was a perfect storm for rioting.

Once those jobs come back and a vaccine is found, people will have better shit to do with their time.