GenZedong

I like to think of it as depression on the societal level, which has only gotten worse and more widespread amongst the population over the decades. The stagnation of living standards, decline in real life third spaces, and the failure of liberalism to explain away the symptoms of empires decline might cause psychological distress of the likes of Doomerism. Why do I say that?

I think the definition of doomerism as the last standing leg of individual liberalism, that nothing ever gets done, and oneself cannot influence the realities they are confronted with, is really helpful to be expanded from the individual to the masses.

As we, as society, are forced to revise our models of thinking about the world and the place we all take in it, we are essentially stripping us of our old abilities to cope, and questioning every source of stability we have taken for granted. While changing our tools of thought, even the space of our own mind begins to shed of its old identity, being stripped of the now unstable foundation.

I think that for some, the pandemic might have been the push from the habitual, albeit relative psychological safety, to the presumed maliciousness of those that practice the now dying western culture.

As a kid i didn't understand what some call 'culture', and guess I still don't, but what I'm certain about is that it is dying with this current liberalism. The capitalists repression of new generations participation in society, their hopes of a better future, that is build with them, may play a big part.

Heck, I see a lot of my peers struggling with the ability to talk to each other, how do we then even create new culture then? We don't party, we don't meet each other, most of us don't even know how to make friends, nor how to grow up and become a person that we aspired to be as kids.

I just wait for the climate crisis ramping up again this summer. Real fun.

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Tbh we cooked. Old cultures dyin, everyones feelin it. Either we all remain blind to the demise capitalism forces upon our present societal structures, or we get rid of those damn contradictions, and may have a cultural revolution ~~(god this time better be good or we dead)~~

Thoughts of the looming Greatest Depression are probably lurking in the back of their minds and they are starting to put up social barriers so they nobody will ask them to share their food.

Well children are apparently declining in their literacy rate if videos online are anything to go by (in America, but I would not be surprised if other capitalist countries in decline are going through similar problems), so it could influence how they speak because they might only watch social media shorts and talk in ways that influencers do (some of whom are thoroughly rude or just ignorant about the world).

Have you been going on long practicing walks? or are you just gonna have a rough go for the first couple weeks?

That sounds really cool. Why are you going on a pilgrimage?

Don't beat yourself up about it. You made a mistake and then fixed it. Plenty of people in the world have made worse mistakes than you have. If you were aborted, there would be one less Communist in the world, which would be a terrible loss.

So you brain glitched and then did the ethical thing by paying for it and even extra as an apology. That's the important part, not that you made a mistake. The other important part is, assessing why it may have happened and if there are ways you can do differently going forward that would prevent it from reoccurring.

Nobody gets through life without making mistakes. Some mistakes are just more visible than others and so are perceived as more embarrassing. Now, sometimes people don't try to learn from mistakes and so they just keep repeating them; that's a problem. Or sometimes people repeat mistakes for reasons that are largely out of their control, which is a problem, but they aren't necessarily the cause. But nobody is getting through life mistake-free and embarrassment-free.

Everyone else who saw has probably forgotten by now; do you remember all your coworker's goofs?

I assume it's an attempt to moralize the American public.

Kinda crazy considering the chicken paste used for nuggets is highly sus. I for one, as a carnist, in this specific case, would prefer a vegan alternative.

Do they actually taste the same? I've never tried vegan substitutes before myself.

carnist behavior.

oh yeah, a decent number of users created their accounts around this time in 2022 because of the /r/genzedong quarantine

Dang, I wish I could even consider moving to Vietnam (or China, but honestly, Chinese citizenship or permanent residency is basically impossible), but lack of money and the fact that the requirements for permanent residency there are very difficult from what I have read makes it so that I am just stuck in America.

Somehow last year I came out as a communist to one of my cousins, and to my genuine surprise he actually took it well. Most of my family is a mixture of liberals and reactionaries (and almost all of them are zionists of course).

The ceasefire was broken, like, 10 minutes after it was declared bro. Israel launched its biggest attack against lebanon ever during the ceasefire lol