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It took me way to long to realize how I fucked my psyche by consuming all the apocalyptic nightmare movies, tv shows, books and videogames and of course the endless doom and gloom in the news.

Optimism is in short supply nowadays sigh

I have a similar story with anxiety and I got mostly rid of it in steps, including therapy. I wish more people realized feeling constant worry about the world is not normal.

It’s not that the world is doing great, but that you or me worrying about it doesn’t have any benefit, so it’s unnecessary. We can’t control everything, so we should focus on what we can.

E.g. I live in the EU, so I didn’t vote for or against Trump. His crazyness does affect my life, but I literally cannot affect his behaviour in any way. So no need to obsess over it - I might roll my eyes over some headlines, but that’s it. I remember when I felt devastated in 2016 after he was first elected, and I felt paralyzed with fear and the lack of control I have. I’m so happy I’m not at that mental place anymore.

And again, I’m not gaslighting myself that the world is perfect. I’m accepting I can’t control everything, and focus my attention on the things I control in my life, and stop constant worrying on the million things I was anxious about. It’s very hatd to explain, took a lot of introspection and some therapy, but it’s possible. Therapist said I had general anxiety disorder (GAD) that I developed due to my mother’s constant negativeness and worrying. Now when I talk to her it’s so obvious, but I never realized it back then. Interesting how big an impact our childhood has on even those of us, who are lucky with regular middle-class upbringing.

Syria was a water war.

It started after farming collapsed in the drought and the farmers started the revolt.

There’s still going to be wars over resources like water (and now the oil again, for no apparent reason that isn’t power hungry distraction tactics).

I mean, hopefully to bring perspective, the water wars are happening now. People are fighting corporations who are draining the aquifers for alphalpha and such to send abroad, there are faucets running dry and everything

It's not going to be mad Max... These problems still exist and are on track, but they way they present themselves is as a slow burning down of the infrastructure that our country is built upon

The people will remain. There will be hard times, we will have to come together to solve problems. We might have to relocate as areas become untenable

There will be unrest and disorder, but not mass murder. We just don't have it in us without years of indoctrination and drug use

I had a partner who was convinced we were in a perpetual state of being weeks away from losing access to water. We lived in Seattle... Fear is often really illogical and it can be difficult to step away from it (Sorry if this posts twice phone is acting weird)

Yeah, we are fed news to make us sad an angry all day. And we come here to comments to get more sad and more angry.

The world is not as it seems here in the Lemmy comment section though, not even close. You can most definitely still be happy, and you should be.

Thank you, it helped.

Old mate: Even hell has layers.
My interpretation: Whether things get better or worse, if we react well then it will help.

I’m getting in shape too. Recently got a manual labor job to speed up the process. If Civil War happens, I’ll at least be strong and fast enough to kill some fascist scum.

Fun fact: great filters don't necessarily have to wipe out the species, they just need to be obstacles unsurmountable by our current resources, mental capacity and evolutionary state.

It may be that for any species that develops spatial reasoning and language while still carrying survival instincts, that they can never get past a certain point where their tech keeps outpacing their own mental/cognitive capabilities and they keep bombing themselves back to the stone age, or creating some kind of technological wonder that they can't control because they're still unevolved primates/reptiles/insects/cephalopods despite having individual potential for thought and self-awareness.

There may be millions of civilizations out there just like us, who can look out at the stars and dream of a larger universe, but can never make a progress past their own prejudices and fears to ever get out into the universe until eventually their species just evaporates away into the great sea of entropy that comes for every world.

We can solve this problem French style.

Creature?

For people reading "water wars" and still chuckling and not taking it seriously because you're imagining a Mad Max world with gangs of people in dusty leather driving hot-rods with spikes all over them chasing down tanker trucks full of snapple, ya'll need to understand that the term "water" isn't going to be used overtly nor as a primary driver for events, and it will be only one of many compounding factors that drive people to mass-migration events.

The mass-migration events are going to get larger and more contentious, and it will lead to people electing even more authoritarian leaders because people have a deep-rooted fear of outsiders entering their land.

These authoritarians are going to start more fights, provoke more wars, and do horrendous things to innocent people. To those saying "this is already happening" yes, you are right... but it's going to get worse as the climate heats up and resources like water become harder to access in areas of dense population. These are the places that the rest of the world will start to cut off and starve first, either overtly or just as a consequence of nations having to divert resources where they can.

Save money. Have about 3 - 4 weeks of food and water on hand in case you end up having to move or in case there is civil disruption that cuts off services for days or weeks. Buy a lot of rice and beans. Get a gun. Get a plan together in case you need to leave your city. Do these things no matter where you live or how safe you think you are.

Over a resource we don't actually need more of. It's just one that's profitable