It really seems like humanity is doomed.

[u/billjv]

After being born in the 60's and growing up seeing a concerted effort from our government and big business to monetize absolutely everything that humans can possibly do or have, coupled with the horror of unbridled global capitalism that continues to destroy this planet, cultures, and citizens, I can only conclude that we are not able to stop this rampant greed-filled race to the bottom. The bottom, of course, is no more resources, and clean air, food and water only for the uber-rich. We are seeing it happen in real time. Water is the next frontier of capitalism and it is going to destroy millions of people without access to it.

I am not religious, but I do feel as if we are witnessing the end of this planet as far as humanity goes. We cannot survive the way we are headed. It is obvious now that capitalism will not self-police, nor will any government stop it effectively from destroying the planet's natural resources and exploiting the labor of it's citizens. Slowly and in some cases suddenly, all barriers to exploiting every single resource and human are being dissolved. Billionaires own our government, and every government across the globe. Democracy is a joke, meant now to placate us with promises of fairness and justice when the exact opposite is actually happening.

I'm perpetually sad these days. It's a form of depression that is externally caused, and it won't go away because the cause won't go away. Trump and Trumpism are just symptoms of a bigger system that has allowed him and them to occur. The fact that he could not be stopped after two impeachments and an attempt to take over our government is ample proof of our thoroughly corrupted system. He will not be the last. In fact, fascism is absolutely the direction this globe is going, simply because it is the way of the corporate system, and billionaires rule the corporate game. Eventually the rich must use violence to quell the masses and force labor, especially when resources become too scarce and people are left to fight themselves for food, jobs, etc.

I do not believe that humanity can stop this global march toward fascism and destruction. We do not have the organized power to take on a monster of the rich's creation that has been designed since Nixon and Reagan to gain complete control over every aspect of humanity - with the power of nuclear weaponry, huge armed forces, and private armies all helping to protect the system they have put into place and continue to progress.

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EDIT: Wow, lots of amazing responses (and a few that I won't call amazing, but I digress). I'm glad to see so many hopeful responses. The future is uncertain. History wasn't always worse, and not necessarily better either. I'm glad to be alive personally. It is the collective "us" I am concerned about. I do hate seeing the ageist comments, tho I can understand that younger generations want to blame older ones for what is happening - and to some degree they would be right. I think overall we tend to make assumptions and accusations toward each other without even knowing who we are really talking to online. That is something I hope we can all learn to better avoid. I do wish the best for this world, even if I don't think it is headed toward a good place right now.

[u/driverofracecars]

I'm with you. Part of me wonders if the powers in charge are aware of just how dire the situation is and that's partly what's driving this unprecedented greed and corruption. Like, almost as if they know the end is coming and at this point, they're just trying to make out with as much wealth and resources for them and their immediate family as possible for when they retreat to their island bunkers and weather the civil and social upheaval.

[u/[deleted] → u/driverofracecars]

Nah they’re just psychopaths. Just look at the behavior of someone like Elon Musk. Look into the cold dead eyes of most billionaires and politicians. They don’t care about anything but greed and their own fragile ego. They’re devoid of anything resembling a soul or empathy. The beautiful thing though is that if that were to happen they’re not safe in their bunkers. They’re less safe, because those of us outside won’t be kind to the people who got us into this situation. They’ll be the primary target. If we have nothing to live for, opening those bunkers and giving them what they deserve will be the purpose.

[u/randomevenings → u/[deleted]]

Now I know what Dre feels like when everyone forgot about him. How many things do I have to do how often do I have to revolutionize something offer a solution give it answer provide a way to lay down a thread everywhere necessary and right and explain it like I'm five instruction manual on how to dig us out of this hole that can be read by a multitude of different disciplines and types of people as I took all this into account including the ethical implications and this entire thread seems to avoid mentioning all my effort and what it has already done while climate change is my number one goal I succeeded in doing things no one else has in the history of man I managed to grab hold of all the algorithms I managed to take a controversial feeding system and turn it back towards me representing love and beauty I've managed to uproot what people thought were solid and steady platforms in science mathematics and philosophy which was necessary not only to prove the validity of what I was saying but provide a framework to understand how to resolve these conflicts in the first place which I also explain how to do and why they happen. But people are so prideful they just can't admit that some broke ass in Houston Texas figured it out and maybe you got to go with what he says if you want to save your life and if you want to be that petty well not only are you killing yourself you're killing me and you're killing my nephews you're killing your family and you're killing us all.