With climate change, COVID, and war no longer on the horizon but at our front doors do you all also feel like you're living through the start of the end? I'm immunocompromised I can't go out even in small social circles, weather is insane, and everyone that is near the center is a war hawk. I feel like I'm screaming into the void but honestly I'm just scared and want to know I'm not alone in this feeling
Technically it started a decade or two ago, and we’re just beginning to see the effects. It’s so long a process, that the “end of the world,” might simply be the (traumatic, terrifying, ugly) rebirth of a new style of living. It’s fair to be scared, but the feeling of spinning your wheels and screaming into the void is what can turn rational fear into a deeper darker emotion.
Given the context, it’s obviously irresponsible to say that praxis and human interaction is the cure all, it wouldn’t be even if there wasn’t Covid. Nevertheless, it’s undeniable that nobody will make it through the coming polycrisis alone/isolated, and building community can take the edge off of climate-related doom. See if a local FNB, SRA, or any communist parties are doing coordinated disaster relief, and see if there’s work that can be done while still staying safe.
Solidarity comrade, its hard looking at, for example, Sacramento and not getting a little doomer. The important thing is to keep on, keep at life, and to persevere till the end of capitalism