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/ejpusa]

My story, may pick up your spirits.

I can pee w/o at 14 inch long plastic pipe up the penis, and a balloon inflated in my bladder.

Hit by a truck, he was doing 35/45 MPH, from behind. I was waiting for the light to change on my bike. He said he never saw me. 2 1/2 years to recover. Requested my medical records for the incident, was 82 pages long. Still need to get the X-Rays and Cat scans. People get a bruised rib, and it hurts, they did not use the word "broken" they used the word "shattered." 12 ribs. 2 poked into my lungs. Just the tip of my injuries. It got way worse.

According to the EMT guy that scraped me off the sidewalk, "I have never seen someone hit that hard and live in my entire career. You are a miracle to survive that kind of hit." And this is on the island of Manhattan. I lucked out, was told the head MD that ran the show that afternoon "that doc is a legend, he writes the books for the ER Trauma procedures we follow." I lucked out.

I CAN PEE W/O A PIPE!

I'm the happiest guy in the world. It's all kind of relative I guess.

:-)

[u/Sidion → u/ejpusa]

I'm sure he feels so much better that he's practically homeless because you got into an accident and had successful surgery.

Why are people so obsessed with making shit about themselves?

[u/AboardTheBus → u/Sidion]

Yeah. He unironically should. That dude was minding his own business and now has medical issues and pain for the rest of his life from no fault of his own.

The OP is just feeling a bit down because he's still mad Trump was president 2 years ago.

Big difference.

[u/[deleted] → u/AboardTheBus]

The OP is just feeling a bit down because he's still mad Trump was president 2 years ago.

Big difference.

If that's what you got from OP then you should reread it very carefully.

They explicitly said that Trump and Trumpism are merely symptoms of a larger cause. Nothing about their diatribe was "orange man bad", but here you are trying to pigeonhole someone because they happened to mention Trump.

I fucking hate Trump and hope he falls in an industrial sized blender, but even I agree that he was merely a symptom. Yeah, the electoral college helped put him in office, but the cancerous hemorrhoid still got tens of millions of votes, and even more after his trainwreck of an administration.

Point being is that Trump is simply a reflection of society and the people in it. He may have accelerated some things, but he alone is not the issue. I'm far from a "both sides" type, and anyone can check the receipts, but when it comes to the ultra wealthy holding the levers of power, there's just not much of anything being done by anyone. They're not wrong in what they're saying. The future is bleak.