The Age of Progress Is Becoming the Age of Regress – and It’s Traumatizing Us(eand.co)

4 pointsby Red_Leaves_Flyy4 lata temu3 comments

The Age of Progress Is Becoming the Age of Regress – and It’s Traumatizing Us

https://eand.co/the-age-of-progress-is-becoming-the-age-of-regress-and-its-traumatizing-us-2a55fa687338

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History is not linear and all previous human civilizations are now relegated to the dustbin of history. It turns out that treating people like replaceable cogs in a global economic resource extraction machine is not a good way to organize society so these numbers are completely unsurprising.

I've personally checked out of the entire deal. There is nothing I can do that will make things any better at this point. Whatever job I can sign up for feeds into the machine that is destroying the biosphere so I've decided to not do that, it's pretty simple. It's not even about stress anymore, it's just the fact that most people are greedy assholes and couldn't care less about anything other than their own comfort and well-being.

Consider your day-to-day activities and then ponder whether your participation in the global apparatus is a net positive. You'll likely discover that it's not but you'll carry on doing what you're doing anyway because there are no other options. So if things keep going the way they are then the inevitable outcome is ecological and civilizational collapse. Most of the signs are all there but people just refuse to look at them [0][1][2].

0: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

1: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

2: https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=809#809-dusty-...

tetris114 lata temu

How did you acquire the financial independence to "check out"? You'd need a farm, several solar/wind generators and backups and a way to pay for internet, surely?

curmudgeon224 lata temu

This is the report the article is based on "Stress in America 2022", worth a read:

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2022/concerne...