Re:Young people in U.S. dying at high rates
by r00fus on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:32PM
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Why is the "zombie apocalypse" so popular? because we have a surfeit of ways the world will likely die, and zombies are less likely than the insect/animal extinction, climate catastrophe or tweets launching nukes, so it's almost comforting in an escapist way.
Re:Young people in U.S. dying at high rates
by FussyZeus on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:39PM
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It's incredibly comforting. I can do something about a zombie. I can't do something about the orange doofus tweeting war on North Korea and burning the planet.
Re:Young people in U.S. dying at high rates
by shrimp_emoji on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:42PM
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Through what dark lens is the unrelenting social progress we've made warped to such dystopic proportions? uwu
But the war, climate change, and economic inequality stuff, big true.
Also, increasingly digital society is moving the average person into the world of physically isolated sexless hydrogen that people like me have been in the whole time, which must be difficult. x3 Look to Japan; the future!
There's so many things getting worse seemingly all the time it's hard to really keep track of it.
Edit: The various surveillance states, re-emboldening of nazi's, the looming threat of Civil War in the United States, a handful of corporations attempting to own and monetize every aspect of life...