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"It's possible that we're heading towards the end of our cosy existence and might need to face some pretty harsh realities.
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Posably for the better. Need to get back to if you can't afford it you can't have it. To meany people want what others have but don't want to work for it. |
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The world once changed very little over generations. The rate of change is accelerating. We will have to adapt. For us in the west the dollar is in its last throes. Austerity is a controlled demolition. If I had children I would be telling them to move to a BRICS country while their money still has value. Nay sayers should look at Argentina. Less than 100 years ago it was one of the richest countries in the world and synonymous with millionaires. These economic cycles are driven by central banks building and bursting economies. Add to that, Britain has actually been in decline since the time of Henry VIII. Depressing? Well you did ask.. |
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"The world once changed very little over generations. The rate of change is accelerating. We will have to adapt. For us in the west the dollar is in its last throes. Austerity is a controlled demolition. If I had children I would be telling them to move to a BRICS country while their money still has value. Nay sayers should look at Argentina. Less than 100 years ago it was one of the richest countries in the world and synonymous with millionaires. These economic cycles are driven by central banks building and bursting economies. Add to that, Britain has actually been in decline since the time of Henry VIII. Depressing? Well you did ask.."
More people keep their heads nowadays. |
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"The world once changed very little over generations. The rate of change is accelerating. We will have to adapt. For us in the west the dollar is in its last throes. Austerity is a controlled demolition. If I had children I would be telling them to move to a BRICS country while their money still has value. Nay sayers should look at Argentina. Less than 100 years ago it was one of the richest countries in the world and synonymous with millionaires. These economic cycles are driven by central banks building and bursting economies. Add to that, Britain has actually been in decline since the time of Henry VIII. Depressing? Well you did ask..
More people keep their heads nowadays."
And ironically, divorce rates are up. |
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I increasingly think we are, everytime the world takes a step forward it seems to go 5 back.
I don't trust any World leader. They can turn in an instance. They all behave like dictators.
Sadly humans haven't really progressed from that scene in 2001 A Space Odessy where two groups battle over a water hole.
Ultimately destruction inevitable, it's physics. |
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"Of everything?
Depressing post I know but the way things are in the world at the moment it feels like we are circling the drain and civilization is heading towards inevitable oblivion!"
I believe the moment the universe as we know it came in to existence, it's always been on a path of inevitable oblivion.
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Of course, for the majority of animals, they have no cognisance of human political/economic/military woes and fears. They are too busy rearing their young and looking for the next meal, whilst trying to avoid being something else's dinner. Their fears and concerns are for the immediacy of the moment. Few plan for the future, much less worry about it.
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Even though their lives may be simplistic (and perhaps by our measure ignorant), I believe that in that lack of awareness there is a calm.
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And I think it's a calm we lose touch with as we grow older and as the weight of the world's problems weighs heavier and heavier upon us all.
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40 years ago, I dreamt I was looking out of my bedroom window, at the garden outside. I could see myself in my dream. And I spoke the most puzzling thing as I looked out the window. I remember the words to this very day.
"That's how the animals do it."
And writing this reply, I am beginning to wonder if that dream was more profound that I can ever have imagined. |
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Things like these happen in cycles. History is full of lessons. Europe should learn its lessons now and understand the importance of self reliance. Countries should learn to rely on themselves and not depend on other countries. People should learn to rely on themselves and reduce dependence on the government. |
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There's many reasons to think our days are numbered as a species, amongst them polluting the planet, war oblivion. But the most compelling is that we have halted nature's natural selection process. Paradoxically, advances in medicine are weakening our human gene pool because people with inherited disease survive and breed. That's against nature's rule for survival. |
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People in Europe confuse “the world” with “Europe and the US”. Generally people in the Uk and Europe know very little about the world outside of their own continent and over estimate its own importance and relevance.
Looking at the wider world things look pretty good. Things are improving for the mass of people on the planet and they have a brighter future.
If we focus entirely on Europe then things look grim, but that probably just reflects Europe’s economic and political performance, which has been somewhere between mediocre and poor for some time. We have more and more people sharing a pie that’s not particularly getting any bigger. We are crawling towards penury.
Alongside that European societies are slowly breaking down with very little cultural cohesion.
It’s difficult when a society has got used to a particular standard of living to accept that things are going to get worse, or otherwise wake up and do the hard work involved in reversing the trend. |
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"With each year that passes I'm increasingly grateful that I chose not to have children "
Same the world is not what is was how wants to bring a life into the mess we servive in. And how wants the burden on the own life in time and resources. |
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"The world once changed very little over generations. The rate of change is accelerating. We will have to adapt. For us in the west the dollar is in its last throes. Austerity is a controlled demolition. If I had children I would be telling them to move to a BRICS country while their money still has value. "
Russia?
Better to live in a first world country but invest in BRICS. That way, if money becomes worthless, you're still rich and you don't need to live in a totalitarian state, or one with a high murder rate. |
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Civilizations has risen and crashed for the whole time since we started walking upright and using tools, last time we all nearly vanished was 10_15,000 years ago, reackon we are here for at least a few thousand years yet, but there will come a time that you will have just 10 of thousands of people spread out acrosss the globe who will become hunter gatherers againg and after a few generations most of earths history will be lost again, wether its man who causes the collapse or a giant lump of rock falking out the sky is the question |
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"Always look on the bright side of life..
'whistles'..Absolutely, what a brilliant song.
'Life's a pile of shit, when you look at it...' Hahaha... love it.
Mrs x"
Tbh at times like this there literally zilch we can do about any of it so just crack on ..
Family and friends and the rest is just stuff that's always gone on.. |
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"Always look on the bright side of life..
'whistles'..Absolutely, what a brilliant song.
'Life's a pile of shit, when you look at it...' Hahaha... love it.
Mrs x
Tbh at times like this there literally zilch we can do about any of it so just crack on ..
Family and friends and the rest is just stuff that's always gone on.."
If you gave someone living through the Black Death the choice of staying put or travelling forward in time to deal with Covid I'm sure, if explained adequately they think their chances were better now.
It's actually a great time to be a human being, we've just all got so used to having it so good we see the negative in everything.
When old people used to say it was better in their day, I used to think it might have been. But now I am the 'old person' I know that's just bollocks.
I'm not trying to diminish anyone's struggle living in the here and now but generally it's much better than it was.
Just pucker up and give a little whistle,
Mrs x |
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"Always look on the bright side of life..
'whistles'..Absolutely, what a brilliant song.
'Life's a pile of shit, when you look at it...' Hahaha... love it.
Mrs x
Tbh at times like this there literally zilch we can do about any of it so just crack on ..
Family and friends and the rest is just stuff that's always gone on..If you gave someone living through the Black Death the choice of staying put or travelling forward in time to deal with Covid I'm sure, if explained adequately they think their chances were better now.
It's actually a great time to be a human being, we've just all got so used to having it so good we see the negative in everything.
When old people used to say it was better in their day, I used to think it might have been. But now I am the 'old person' I know that's just bollocks.
I'm not trying to diminish anyone's struggle living in the here and now but generally it's much better than it was.
Just pucker up and give a little whistle,
Mrs x"
My dad constantly says how much better things were 'in his day' but also tells me that people nowadays have it easy. I think every generation faces existential threats but one day the threat will become reality. |
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"Always look on the bright side of life..
'whistles'..Absolutely, what a brilliant song.
'Life's a pile of shit, when you look at it...' Hahaha... love it.
Mrs x
Tbh at times like this there literally zilch we can do about any of it so just crack on ..
Family and friends and the rest is just stuff that's always gone on..If you gave someone living through the Black Death the choice of staying put or travelling forward in time to deal with Covid I'm sure, if explained adequately they think their chances were better now.
It's actually a great time to be a human being, we've just all got so used to having it so good we see the negative in everything.
When old people used to say it was better in their day, I used to think it might have been. But now I am the 'old person' I know that's just bollocks.
I'm not trying to diminish anyone's struggle living in the here and now but generally it's much better than it was.
Just pucker up and give a little whistle,
Mrs x"
It's purely the luck of the draw, time and place, health etc..
Seeing the divisive rhetoric some spread and others buy into of generation Z having it awful compared to boomers etc might have some foundations and that's not to decry the issues that are very real for them today with property prices etc..
But the generation who were born in 1896 who were 18 at the outset of the first world war had it bad to a degree not know of or experienced by any of us born after the second world war..
Is what it is whenever and you have to just crack on.. |
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"There's many reasons to think our days are numbered as a species, amongst them polluting the planet, war oblivion. But the most compelling is that we have halted nature's natural selection process. Paradoxically, advances in medicine are weakening our human gene pool because people with inherited disease survive and breed. That's against nature's rule for survival."
Autoimmune diseases are increasing. They'll finish us off if nothing else does. |
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