Be honest, does anyone actually believe things are going to get better or are we all just pretending??? > Likes and Comments

I have a degree, a full time job in the city, i don't go out much, i cook at home, i do everything they tell you to do to be financially responsible. and i still share a flat with two other people in my mid thirties because renting alone is genuinely not possible on one salary anymore. and every time it comes up in parliament they talk about it for forty minutes and nothing changes. i have stopped watching those debates because my blood pressure can't take it. might give that book a look because honestly i need a new way of thinking about all of this

Moved to the uk from zimbabwe fifteen years ago and watching what is happening to democratic institutions here now feels uncomfortably familiar in ways i genuinely wish it didn't. things that felt unthinkable when i arrived are just part of the conversation now. i don't say this to be dramatic i say it because i have seen what the early stages look like and i think people who have only ever known stability are genuinely underestimating what it takes to maintain it.

I don't think the choice is between blind optimism and giving up.

What worries me most is how easily we get used to systems making decisions for us, especially when they promise comfort and security. After a while, we can stop asking who bears the cost of those decisions.

I explore a similar question in my fiction: people try to escape a system, only to discover how easily they begin recreating its rules themselves.

What gives me hope is that people are still asking these questions, listening to different experiences, and refusing to treat the way things are as the only way things can be.

The democracy creep is actually what's bothering me. it never happens all at once and that's exactly what makes it so dangerous

We're just pretending. Humans get used to things way too quickly, especially now with escapes to social media, and there's way too many of us. If American gestapo can shoot our citizens in the street and everyone just complain about it on Facebook, we're cooked. Let alone climate change, qualified immunity, billionaires, flock surveillance, drugs, homelessness. Our extinction is surely near. One of the reasons I don't have kids. I think the fact that there's so many of us makes it impossible to make decisions that don't harm a good half of us.

Is there an audio version of this book???

That’s exactly what unsettles me too — how quickly alternatives start copying the same logic once they gain power.
The fact that people still notice it and talk about it may be one of the few reasons for hope.

Ann Applebaum has been saying for years that what is the most terrifying her is that ordinary people avoid politics, as in they dont run for any offices. It's easy a comfortable to stay at home complaining, but fighting, making changes requires effort and, sorry to say, a hard arse, as my granny used to say. You want to live in a good country -do something! Write a book, write and article, become a politician even if at low level. At least go and vote. Anything!

Patricia wrote: "Can we just take a second and talk about what is actually going on in the world right now because i genuinely need someone to make sense of it with me 😭

Let's start with the climate because that a..."

There are Pieces of The Equation that The Majority of Humans lack, so they are Calculating on Fractions of Equations. Which makes All their Calculations Incorrect UNLESS You have the WHOLE Equation, which No Human has.

Yes. Everything IS Going to be Okay... For Those Who "Figure Out The Lesson To Be Learned."

BUT the Lesson we have to Learn TO Survive this, is GOING to come at a High Price AND Only those who Learn The Lesson will be Okay.

I've been Working on this Subject for 42 Years. This Topic IS My Life Work. I built An Ark for it. I have too much Data to Reference here.

This is A Trial AND it's Darwinism AND Its Resource Partitioning AND It is supposed to be Taken Seriously. If you "Relax" and "Coast Through" you Failed the Trial. You won't make it.

The Trial is "CAN YOU LEARN WELL ENOUGH TO LEARN THE RIGHT LESSON?" Which most Humans can't. AND This is how you Weed out the Ones who CAN'T Make it.

The Grim Reaper Paradox is when A Person is so Uneducated that They are TOO Uneducated TO Learn, which Activates Cell Apoptosis associated with Resource Partitioning. Which is Sudden Cell Death.

We are Evolving to a New Environment where The Human who Fails to Learn Well Enough To Learn The Right Lesson CANNOT Biologically Survive.

Relax through this? You Fail.
Don't notice The Chaos? You Fail.
Learn the WRONG Thing? You Fail.
Panic? You Fail.
Follow The Wrong Message? You Fail.

Only 2.9 Billion will Learn Well Enough TO Learn The Right Lesson, which Only 2.9 Billion People will figure out by 2029.

My Advice. GET CURIOUS. GET LEARNING. Use Arete. Master The Math to Measure Truth. SPEAK ONLY Truth.