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... I’ve seen videos and read articles predicting an imminent catastrophe, and corporate greed tells me that this catastrophe is just around the corner.

my own doomerism had me believing this as well, but then learning about texts like the ones cowbee has shared w you has shown me that our situation was predicted a century+ ago and I found it reassuring.

The most wild part is that it was never just some fringe leftist prediction; even liberal & conservative scholars from a century ago also predicted it like Keynes, or Polanyi, or Roosevelt (yes the president). It turns out that almost a century ago americans and other westerners just stopped paying attention to all the warnings from all of the scholars that they used to listen to and now we're in this doom filled future because all the people who benefit from the status quo have successfully created an environment where the future is seen as either more status quo or nothing but abject horrors to scare us into drinking the kool-aide of inescapable climate change and perpetual oligarchy.

Once I developed a rudimentary media literacy because those texts; the mainstream media became transparent and it became clear that everyone, but the people of ruling class, are kept ignorant of reality because ignorant people are easier to manipulate into all the unnecessary asshattery that we've been doing for the last five generations.