The profound loneliness of being collapse-aware - eviltoast

I feel this SO MUCH.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve been around from the old peak oil scene’s days back in the 2000’s (2005? 2006?) when I was in my early twenties? It doesn’t make me lonely, even though becoming aware of it all did cause me to lose most of my friends (they’re still trying to party it up, I think, successfully), and almost nobody’s really turned up to replace them since then. Loneliness doesn’t bother me like it used to, but ignorance and apathy and the toxic positivity that says to wish it all away and get yours while you can is really irritating.

    I don’t talk about it to anyone anymore offline, because that strikes me as a painfully pointless way to make my lot even worse than it’s already been made.