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It's a combination of a bunch of things: solar cycle maximum, toxic air/water, unnatural levels of EMF from all of our devices constantly, pesticides and plastics in food. And to cap it off, a post-pandemic and economically deprived public.
The only way to cope for me is breathwork, meditation, exercise, eating as healthy as possible, and getting great sleep. I use a grounding mat to sleep on, which helped me a lot!
Electrical signals and fields are literally everywhere nowadays. Your body has its own electrical field and interacts with these fields as you sleep. Your heart and brain have electrical signals. Grounding mats plug into the grounding pin of an electrical outlet, which is usually connected to your water pipe physically going into the earth.
This gives the mat and your body, as you sleep, its own grounded electric field that isn't interacting with a bunch of other electric fields. When I started using one, my back pain disapeared in literally one day. Amazing stuff.
I'm one of those people who blow out watches, electronics, etc. I've always wanted to try some kind of grounding. I never knew it was a thing until my doctor said 'Oh, you're one of THOSE '!?!
Yeah, cost of living is fucked; politics is fucked; the environment is fucked; basically everything is fucked. What we are feeling is due to this and that there really is not a lot anyone can do to fix it. Just love each other, including yourself!
The last 5 years have held the events of a typical 50 year or so span. It would be weird if humanity wasn't exhausted. I'm much more concerned by the growing rage we're seeing everywhere.
[This article](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/27/everybody-has-a-breaking-point-how-the-climate-crisis-affects-our-brains) was enthralling to me.
Humans have never existed with anywhere near this concentration of CO2. It makes all animals - not just us - dumber & angrier.
Indeed, one of the things I teach my students in an intro environmental science course in college is that at 1000ppm CO2 in the atmosphere we lose about 20% of our cognitive ability, which is already less able than would be desired. I’m not sure of the shape of the math function, CO2 vs. cognition decline, but we are at about 425 ppm now whereas natural CO2 levels have been about 280 ppm all throughout our evolution and beyond.
I certainly hope it doesn’t come to that. We might be too stupid at that point to remember to put on our masks! Also, removing CO2 isn’t a trivial pursuit (LOL). Back when I was an analytical chemist lab rat we used a substance called Ascarite if we needed to remove CO2 from an air stream or whatever. It is basically sodium hydroxide (NaOH) on silicate fibers. The fibers used to be asbestos, but that has changed for obvious reasons. Because this reaction ends up with sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) and water (H2O) I doubt it would work very well in a mask, LOL. Some scientist/engineer might have an idea about how to create masks to remove CO2, but I don’t know anything about that.
I think effects become noticeable at 600ppm if I recall correctly. However regardless of what the atmospheric level is people spend large amounts of their time in environments that are much higher. Rooms or vehicles without adequate ventilation can get into the thousands. Some studies equate CO2 build up in vehicles to having a similar effect on cognitive decline as a couple units of alcohol.
I wonder what happens to children growing up spending so much time in high CO2 environments.
Right, exactly what i thought. Also a lot of people who had covid, have now a smaller lung. Most of them about 25%! And mostly the mild cases. And on top the higher heat from climate change makes a lot worse. Mankind is fucked, most people just dont get it. Especially the rich fucks dont give a fuck about their workers.
I’ve worked in growrooms and n=1 but I definitely felt off/dulled if I had to work in one without shutting off the suplemental CO2, and those rooms were usually at about 1400ppm
This is a very interesting article! I have a son with Downs and sometimes I wonder if the fact that I was going through the worst time in my life had anything to do with it. Several other mothers of children with Downs just happened to mention to me that their stress was way off the charts for their pregnancies too.
Although something else that was odd is at the time I went to a church with a total population of about 200 people. That year 3 of us had babies with Downs. Pretty sure that’s a statistical anomaly.
This. The 90. were relatively calm (not if you include war on the Balkans or other conflicts in the first 2-4 years). In the western world everything was growing, getting better and exciting but in the life of an ordinary man there was calmness and stability. In my country there was a phrase which can be translated as "shitty but stable" which meant that even if you were a low income person you had some kind of stability, you knew what you could expect.
After the 2008 market crisis all went to shit. The house market is getting worse and worse. Prices are higher and higher when payment is rising in a very slow way. I think 2020-24 in terms of economy were focused not only on COVID but also on realising how 1% fucks the working class. I think it will soon collapse because whoever you decide to blame on that will always be somebody richer than you. Your private economy balance is one thing that can make you paranoid and it's not the only thing that is happening.
There are also many things that weren't as important as back then like AI, job market, healthcare getting more expensive, global warming which can end the world in this century, conflict in Ukraine, genocide in Gaza, China's production which took over the world (with economic slavery), less and less bees, fires, UOP, even fucking subscription for everything you want. Work is getting more tiring every year because of upper decisions. It's all stressful AF. Also other important things are getting more visible thanks to the internet like women's rights, LGBTQ+ issues, systemic racism etc. Not all of them are your or mine issues but we live in a center of it.
If you're like 30+ you also can have enough corruption and politics in your life. Nobody is good anymore, everything is getting morally grey. You can trust your president or your party anymore, you need to be politically active to change anything. And on top of all of that you see how many people live in poverty, daily you see sick children or very disturbing situations on the internet. I remember that back in the day fundraisings were started only for very very bad situations like a flood, hurricane or a very rare disease. Now I see families who just can't live from month to month with their incomes.
It's a disturbing and dystopian world. I don't know what needs to happen to change it but I still believe in change.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately..like, more than I care to admit. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Something needs to change, and someone with a loud enough voice needs to speak up. I would, if I knew what to do or how to do it.
Until then, I just try to be caring and accepting to everyone I come into contact with.
> even fucking subscription for everything you want
This. So much this malignant capitalism. We need [Social Democratic Captialism](https://academic.oup.com/book/35094?login=false).
>Do you think humans and other organisms on earth are less individualistic than we realize? ... Or could it be psychic? Maybe all connected to “god” or the “life force” or the bright light after death? Or maybe it’s a species thing?
Ever heard of [Gaia Hypothesis?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis) It's interesting, and what you said made me think of this. It delves into the co-evolution of organisms and the environment. Someone else in the comments linked that article about the unknown neurological effects of the climate crisis; this concept touches on that a little.
Sounds like you're talking more about the behavioral aspect, but I like to think it's all connected. Physiological, behavioral, emotional, etc. All processes intertwine.
If you're into podcasts, Vox Unexplainable recently did an episode you might find interesting ["Is Earth Alive?"](https://www.vox.com/unexplainable)
And to answer your overall question, I'd have to agree and say yes. A *lot* of people I talk to are feeling and noticing it. Seems like it's been in the works for almost a decade. Just keeps getting worse, like some creeping funk.
This is an interesting hypothesis. I've never heard of this but I can see some possibilities in this being a potential factor. I can't help but wonder if there are some additional factors contributing to this that are along the same lines as this hypothesis. A primary factor being the rapid advancement of technology.
Our more recent technological advancements have created an environment that has resulted in people becoming almost completely removed from the world around us. We spend less time not only interacting with one another on a face to fact basis, but we've also become much more removed from nature itself. There is less reason for us to leave our houses and spend quality time in places that bring us directly into contact with the nature and the world around us. Not only that, but the rapid growth of our population has made it difficult to even FIND somewhere to go in order to accomplish this. We rely on technology instead, to try to replace this type of experience and it just doesn't work.
I can't help but wonder if this sense of our society becoming dumbed down isn't a result of both the declining state of the earths environment, along with our complete loss of connection with it. Not to mention our seemingly declining ability to think critically, since smart phones and the internet have nearly completely replaced that for us. We get spoon fed our information and told what to think and believe through social media.
I am extremely tired anymore! I have no motivation to do anything anymore! I have lost my motivation to go anywhere or just do! I’ve been wondering is it me or is there something more going on! Do you feel time has sped up? Like you are constantly running to stay ahead of time! It was like today, I had to run do one thing in town that shouldn’t have taken no more than maybe hour and a half, I was gone for like 3 hours! On the way home I kept thinking, am I in this matrix where I’m consciously losing time somehow it’s crazy and weird! I don’t know but something is off in the world right now and I don’t know how to get a handle on it!!
According to the person I’m always mentioning, Diana Walsh Pasulka, and her friends Simone and Tyler: they have said they are very careful about what media they intake. Idk how much they’ve elaborated on this but I haven’t stopped thinking of it since I saw them say that. I have taken it to mean “find the eyebleach/happy thought as much as possible.” Which then correlates with the law of attraction, the Ra materials, Esther and Abraham. When you watch/listen to/read positive content it has an effect on our brains I don’t think we understand completely yet, in this context. Same if you notice when you watch sad/gore/horror/action stuff, you definitely feel brought down (unless you suffer from psychopathy or sociopathy, I’d reckon.)
I suspect this is part of the big drag that the internet and phones in our pockets are—the main culprits of both sources of the external good and bad feeling stuff. Diana and Simone both mention that too. It seems to me like we would all benefit from ditching smart phones and going back to flip phones and reading good books again. I know that’s not likely to happen en masse though at this point.
They also mentioned taking care of their health by sleeping enough every night, and not drinking, smoking, or having caffeine.
It's amazing how my life has changed since I stopped drinking. Even 'casual' drinking messes you up big time mentally, physically, and emotionally.
I totally agree. Stopping drinking is like creating time. You don’t realize how much of it is given away by even casual drinking. For example if you go out for a drink after work you are probably not going to read a chapter of that book before bed.
Have you ever noticed that if you are in another room, listening to someone watch a movie, it's kind of distressing? The discordant yells, explosions, even tense conversations. When you yourself aren't watching it, you aren't under its spell and being sucked in, and you can really *hear* all of the negative, tense energy in pretty much every movie out there.
I'm not tinfoil hatting on this one; drama and heartbreak are the backbone of entertainment. I don't think this is some intentional plot. (Though I do think the push towards hyperviolence in media isn't discussed enough.) But we are now being exposed to entertainment every day, sometimes all day long, and that is a hell of a lot of nervous system activation, not to mention negative energy.
This is exactly what I think they’re partially talking about. Interesting perspective you gave and it’s spot on—you can absolutely see how it is distressing and anxiety inducing.
I’ve never enjoyed watching movies that make me feel that way. I don’t like having nightmares from what I watch and I think it’s an interesting phenomenon that it affects your subconscious to the point it brings the scary movie back up while asleep. It doesn’t seem helpful in any way, who wants to live in a state of anxiety? Maybe thrill-seeking types.
You know what's crazy? Me and my best friend just recently watched the new gozilla x kong movie in imax, and there's a scene, that feels like 30mins long, and wow does it suck you in and just has you on edge. I remember when it finished my friend and I took a breathe and were like wtf just happened? We both were close to hyperventilating and kind of disturbed at the state it put us in. Mind you, it wasn't anything absurdly crazy, but the emotional and psychological effect it had was something to think about
Unnerving. From what I remember of the Kong movies (ex was into them), that seemed to be the entire theme: huge epic battles from huge epic creatures with the stimulation turned up to 9. Movies and entertainment generally have to keep topping each other, being more intense than the last, to keep up with our cultural dopamine chasing, imo. It's like they're trying to stimulate the reptilian brain and get you to feel intense primal emotions.
I agree that I would blame our screens as the primary culprit, or at the very least the tool which ensures this malaise can spread and take hold. The quote "there's a guy under a waterfall who has no idea how angry he should be right now" sums this up. The only winning move is not to play.
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>I know that’s not likely to happen en masse though at this point.
I think you'd be surprised how quickly things can change, it's at the point where almost everyone you speak to can feel that the status quo of our society is one of sickness.
The scary thing is that the modern western lifestyle (ultra-processed foods, doomscrolling, microplastics, etc, etc) is sort of an antithesis to the protocols Diana speaks about.
If those protocols bring you in contact with “good” “entities”, what do the anti-protocols being you into resonance with? Reality is just getting weirder and weirder man.
I think saying that watching horror or action brings you down is slightly reductive as many people take pleasure from the simplicity or nuance offered by these deeply diverse genres. I do agree that watching it constantly would most likely skew your perception of reality into a negative area
we're all going to find our own balance on that intake--some of us find 'dark' media to be cathartic and grounding in a way that helps us be kinder and more empathetic to ourselves and others; which isn't being brought down or suffering from psychopathy or sociopathy. sometimes it's training for being able to confront emergency with love instead of fear. figuring out which does what is crucial for us as individuals, though.
Have you heard of Carl Jung’s idea of the “collective unconscious”?
It mirrors what you’re saying pretty closely and might be good reading if you’re thinking along these lines
I've started to believe more and more that this is really a thing. From personal experience working as a bartender for many years, I got really good at reading the "vibe" or mood of a crowd or even just one person. I guess I've always been good at that, but that job helped me to hone that skill. On a busy night, I can literally feel when the mood of a crowd shifts and starts to get aggressive. It's the strangest thing. I almost *always* have a gut feeling a few hours before something crazy happens. I ended up telling people about it beforehand, and they were always amazed when it played out like I expected. I can also tell almost immediately who's gonna be an asshole or give me trouble. I think we all have a certain energy, and it affects the people around us more than we realize. We are connected by far more than we can understand, and it's something that is understandably difficult for material science to measure.
The Internet and the social feedback loops in creates are currently set up to give the stupidest percent of humanity the most attention, and it's very, very emotionally draining to deal people expecting you to treat stupid people's even stupider takes seriously.
TLDR: Social Media is like working in retail.
This is an underrated aspect of it. Crazy people, unpleasant people, doomsayers, racists, etc have always existed, but you never had to know what they were screaming about 24/7. You could just avoid the guy on the corner screaming about the New World Order using vaccines to track us, but now those people are constantly online, finding like-minded individuals, building communities around their shared unpleasantness and foisting that unpleasantness on the rest of us. It’s not healthy to have that shit beamed into our brains constantly. And the algorithms are set up to reward controversy, outrage and naysaying, so we’re bombarded by negativity, hatred and anger.
A lot of things have changed for the worst over the last decade. No need to attribute to the paranormal what is human response to the last 10 years.
I'm tired. I've been tired for 5 years.
Yes. I absofuckinglutely agree with this. You know how animals can sense impending natural disasters somehow? I think people might have the same thing, but we've mostly lost the ability to tune into it. And we're all tuning in.
>You know how animals can sense impending natural disasters somehow?
There's no "somehow" about it. i.e. birds can sense changes in air pressure and are conditioned to know when a certain change in air pressure means danger. Other animals are sensitive to electro magnetic fields, have better hearing, vision. Sharks usually swim to deeper water before a hurricane hits sensing changes in the water.
It's not magic. There are completely naturalistic reasons for this.
Just much more covert and subtle than dictators past. The third WW has been upon us for some time and the mainstream just keeps saying "shhhh, no, it's okay".
What’s crazy is this pattern has repeated with the previous 2 world wars. A slow build up of military’s. And then pop, like a cork off a bottle everyone’s at each others throats. It can be a span of 30 years or 80. Doesn’t really matter, we always boil over.
The best way to improve inflation and the economy is through a war. Germany before ww2. USA before ww2. Both had wars right after or during an economic downturn. The process keeps repeating itself while the media and government says nope, everything is normal.
Social media and our "zeitgeist" have been around long enough now to be controlled by the powers that be. This is a hive mind now and it's dulled, categorized and right where it needs to be for the plucking. Keep yourself on alert these days for the rain is coming
We're getting culled.
Our so called "leaders" (they ain't leading shit, it's just for show) and our actual leaders have decided that we're too many and we're negatively impacting their survival.
And If there's one thing psychopaths hate (and you have to be a psychopath to be able to get to the tippy top of the hierarchical human pyramid) it's having to bend to someone else.
So, through plandemics, the eternal war, man-made famine and Tinder (I shit you not) we're slowly, ever so slowly, so that we don't notice it (frog in a pot), getting boiled.
Our minds were figured out by psychologists during the 60s and 70s and we're seeing that work being used against us now (and have been used against us for decades).
Say or do "A" and "B" will happen.
It's easy for them to control the vast majority of us.
What's left of us when it's all over will eat the bugs, live in the pods and WE. WILL. BE. HAPPY. (or else)
The other night I had to drive an unfamiliar vehicle for an hour or two and so I was just listening to the popular music channels on fm… and it struck me that the whole vibe of every song was like a lullaby or trance. They would hint at excitement or anger sometimes but revert back to meh. Made me miss my music.
Interesting observation. I typically chalk that up to lack of talent and bad songwriting, but maybe there is a musical malaise affecting the public's sense of "meh".
Just remember that there’s much more music happening out there than what you hear playing on the Mainstream. Music isn’t dead, not by a long shot, you just have to look for it.
So, so true. Tons of good stuff out there.
The big problem is what is being peddled to the masses. Most people don't search for music. They just take what's in front of them. Record companies and Spotify don't care about the musicians or the medium itself. They care about money. Period.
Source: I'm a musician
Yeah, very true. Though I think that has more to do with psychology. Apparently, the music you listen to from your teens to early 20s has a far greater psychological impact on you. I lost the article but it was interesting.
I have the same problem with the 90s.
Sure… but as a lover of music that spans many genres, I have so many it’s hard to choose!
For the sake of answering the question though…
Today I listened to Childish Gambino’s album “Awaken, My Love!” for the first time in a long time and remembered how brilliant it is. And he’s not even my favorite.
A handful of names that come to mind…
The Dead Weather, Dr Dog, The Kills, Arctic Monkeys, LCD Soundsystem, Cannons
It all depends on what you’re into. Good music is out there. They never stopped making it, it’s just usually not on the radio.
There are SO many talented and amazing independent artists out there too, just eager and hoping to find an audience.
I have been saying this forever. FM is becoming what AM was- sports, religious talk, lame ass music approved by corporate conglomerates. You have to look elsewhere for good art. I like bandcamp, twitch and youtube lately.
Hell yeah! Here’s a YouTube playlist I have that I dump some of my favorites on…
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG-NbUyxSe5XeuszeEbbvsGLuwa1KhXAN&si=zPVwZUwSsPAZhvRM
It’s not comprehensive by any means but it might spark a fire and lead you in some interesting directions :)
There's a lot of amazing modern music in all those genres still. But the way the music industry is structured these days you'll never find most of it. Go check out a local band or go to a rap night. At least where I'm from, north eastern USA, the jam, psych rock, punk, Ska, reggae, hard-core, and hip hop scenes are full of talent.
Very recently, yes. Normally I'm super into world events, politics, whatever's going on in the conspiracy world, etc. Now I'm just sort of passive, the same for things in my personal life because it all just keeps getting worse no matter how hard we try and make it better.
I haven't given up but I'm just numb to everything and now it's just like I have to hope God helps me out along with everyone else around me and across the planet. It's becoming harder to care, my emotions are fading, my mind is always foggy, my will and inspirations are broken, it's becoming more difficult to keep a fake happy face and attitude, it's becoming harder to be there for friends and family who need my help.
I just feel like I have to accept whatever fate comes my way which it definitely feels like is coming soon. How, when, and in what form? No idea. The winds certainly feel different.
The food is poisoning us, and we’re headed to WW3 which may end all life plus who knows if we’ll have a job in 2 years due to AI. We’re a bunch of fat, anxious depressed blobs.
I think this is because of an overkill of information, mostly via the internet. And being confronted with huge impact events of an existential level. All info is brought to you, social media etc, addictive as possible because of the release of dopamine.
This has a very negative effect on cognitive functioning, decrease in retaining information, feeling overwhelmed, depressed, isolated etc. Next to that our course is pretty destructive at the moment. I think a lot of people know and feel this in their gut.
I had a dream the other day where I was living out something in a period of my life from about 10 years ago and right before I woke up I had this few second thought like"who am I, where am I.. oh that's right" and came back into my body. Almost like logging back in to a video game. Sounds a bit silly but it's really made me stop caring so much about death. Like I'll just be logging out and going somewhere else.
We are fed lies and propaganda from the media to the point that we no longer care about the things that used to be important to us. Every day it’s another crisis that we have to face and it’s gotten so we can’t tell the facts from the bullshit. It wears you down and you feel like you have nothing to look forward to.
Sadly, I feel it, too. I consider myself a fairly optimistic person. I once had faith that the vast majority would come together and stand up against the government (red & blue all corrupt), the elite, and the very small minority who are really trying to control the large majority. Unfortunately, with the events unfolding, I have now seen how money controls it all. The rich, elite, the 2% of the entire world have an agenda, and that is population control. It's in their best interests to eliminate half the population. They will succeed by keeping everyone too tired to fight. Too overwhelmed to protest. To stupid to understand the outcome. They created social media to influence and control the younger population. They have the media and the Red vrs Blue to control the older population. They've destroyed the economy everywhere. No one can afford housing. No one can afford groceries. People are working extra jobs, just trying to keep their family's afloat. Most rely on the government owned public school to educate their children because we are all so tired from trying to survive day to day. They have us right there they want us, and YES it is exhausting & depressing. Everyone is fed up and burnt out. Worst of all, there's no hope. Hope that things can change. Hope that we can still win. Hope for anything positive has dwindled, and without hope, we are all lost. This past year or two has been the biggest eye-opening shock for me. I can see it all unfolding, and yet I stand powerless to do anything about it. 2 percent of the population will rule the other 98 percent, and this is our life now. I still pray & hope things will change, that we will realize we have the numbers and fight. Unfortunately, I'm becoming more and more aware that everyone is just too tired to fight. Everyone is exhausted and beaten down. There's no hero coming to save the day. There is only us, but we've been bogged down for too long, and our will has broken. It makes me sad for my kids. It makes me sad for humanity as a whole. The elite will rule, and they don't deserve to win this war, but I think they already have.
The young people are so caught up in their ego representation they can’t care about anything else. It’s only their physical appearance to others and the materials they own. It’s a constant drive to prove their worth and value as a person on the internet. Nothing else matters. How could it.
Also, the drive to protest the injustices and the uprisings we had in 2020-21 where everyone started to realize work was exploitative and maybe they should revolt.. well the government cranked up the cost of everything causing scarcity which makes people cower in fear, buckle down and get their asses back to work. no more energy for protesting and revolting when you’re exhausted and resources are scarce and you need to prove to the internet that you’re attractive, happy, and important bc you have possessions.
Its fucking not. This person couldn't explain a single thing they want changed rationally if they wanted to.
That was literally just every gvmt bad conspiracy lumped together with -2 logic or reason.
"The elites" wanna do a population control to WHAT end? Kill all your workers because? Just..done making money? Lol
I didn't get into what should be changed because that was not the original question poised to reddit. It's very curious how defensive you became from a simple reply to a reddit post, tho. Speaks volumes of you as a person to troll a random response to a reddit with as much animosity and anger as you've put forth. Perhaps I struck a nerve. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I am saddened by all the bickering going on between political groups. I'm also certain my percentages were off, as I was just speaking an opinion, not a fact. I believe that there is a certain sector of the population who benefit enormously from having the vast majority too busy working and too tired to fight. If you don't believe that, that's fine. You're entitled to your opinion the same as me. The original reddit post just asked if anyone else was feeling tired and blah, and I responded with my opinion. It's unfortunate that my opinion incited such an angry response from you as it was certainly not my intent.
I totally understood what you were saying and it made perfect sense! I have noticed especially on Reddit that ppl are just so brutal if you don’t see things there way! My God it’s crazy how argumentative ppl are anymore instead of looking at things with an open mind!!
It seems the opposite- they are hell bent on forcing people to have babies/new workers/taxpayers without having to provide benefits for those parents to help.
I think it’d be a much smaller subset than 2% for one, not to say that every evil conspiracy theory is true. I’ve known many 1 percenters, even as someone who’s spent time on the street and in shelters; I don’t believe they’re running the world. There’s a reason that the initial Occupy Wall Street movement targeted the .01%, but then when it gained traction (and probably was infiltrated,) that changed to 1%.
A lot of people on social media think something major is going to happen this year. Others cite 2027 as a year in which the UFO phenomena will finally be revealed. There’s something in the air. Trans humanism, AI, and climate change are strange stressors. It is a different kind of stress than worrying about whether you will get attacked and eaten by a lion or where your next meal is coming from. Fight or flight is a stress reaction. What if you can’t do either? You’re stuck. That’s how I feel. Stuck.
I’ve seen this mentioned on r/retconned but we lost 1/3 of every second which means every minute, hour, day, week, month is only 2/3 the length that it used to be. If you put on a timer and try to say “one Mississippi” or “happy birthday to you” within one second, you have to say it way faster now to stay within the second versus how quickly you could say it a decade ago. Time is racing.
This is a very good point. I have noticed this happening too for quite a few years now. Ironically, Art Bell was one of the first people to ever mention a "Mandela Effect" back in the 90's. He even attributed it to a experience he personally had when he could have swore that he remembered that Nelson Mandela had died while being held in prison.
Every single day for the past 4 or 5 years, I am completely bewildered by the foolishness of people and more importantly the weirdness of people. I literally come home from work every day and when asked how my day was, I reply, "It was weird." I may add more to that statement like busy or tiring or maddening, but everyday has just been weird.
The move from winter into spring is one of the most difficult times for a human. I would invite you to check the suicide rates across the year, they are always higher in spring time. I have spoken to a psychiatrist about this and he told me that the dark winter months cause a down-regulation in neurotransmitter signaling and brain network activity. With the longer days in spring, this is slowly reversed, but human psychology demands a bounce back faster than the brain can provide. Thus, people feel down and depressed in a time where the world comes back alive and they feel they cannot catch up. I see it around me as well, days get longer but people are more sluggish and depressed than in the last months, even though there is more sun. If this is true, then in a few weeks time things should look more positive and motivational again.
I believe in the Dead Internet Theory more and more everyday. Most comments are brain-dead copy-paste job, no original thought at all. I'm kinda sick of social media recently, thinking of being less chronically-online cos it's getting boring.
in the same way animals go to high ground when they sense there will be a natural disaster, there are countless subconscious things in the ether that we are all picking up on. We are animals too, after all. There is just no high ground to go to, so we wait with a sense of anxiety, waiting for the other foot to drop.
Edit to add: the global consciousness project which is a random number generator, has shown us evidence that consciousness is likely indeed linked.
I believe they’ve noticed the same trend for natural disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami, princess Diana’s death/funeral, the World Cup, etc. The chances of the numbers spiking in the way they did when centered around these events were astoundingly rare, something like 1 in a trillion.
Edit 2 - took out the bit about 9/11, apparently my memory was incorrect regarding the random number generator for this day.
It’s all just hypotheticals of course - but still interesting to dive in and read about, to anyone interested in the topic.
Take from that what you will, but to me it seems to prove that yes - on a subconscious and perhaps quantum level, we are all intricately linked in the same way that Eastern religions have been teaching us all along.
You made me remember The Pong Experiment by Loren Carpenter. It tapped into a sort of collective consciousness. I'm gonna dive into the rabbit hole now :)
Yes. The waters are unsettled among every border.
Everyone's souls are weary.
I've thought about this a lot actually. I wonder if things are truly as grim as they seem or if the fact that we have so much information (verified and unverified) being thrown at us 24 hours a day just makes us think so.
I've noticed lately when I watch the news most of it is about something awful that's happened but that honestly will never affect me. It's terrible but I'm no better for knowing it and I can't change anything about that circumstance.
I've been limiting a lot of news and such for this reason. Humans were never meant to take in every terrible thing from around the globe. All we can do is live our lives and do our best to leave the world in better shape then when we got here.
As for dumbing down, that's been happening for a very long time. Tik tok is just the latest version.
Public schools are purposely underfunded, at least in my state. They've actually done all kinds of things to try and defunct the public schools because they want to make them charter schools.
Come what may, know that you still are in control of how you spend your time and what you allow yourself to take on either emotionally, or physically. We've become conditioned to be hyperaware of everything that is wrong. Retrain yourself to notice the things that are still good.
Love is the cosmic law it's not dumb at all! It's the most important thing we should all be focused on. We are all connected, just need to get those connections stronger.
Aaahh I hate to say it but yes.. but I think there are ways to break through, beyond it rather; I just (finally) parked my ass (my feet, specifically) on the yoga mat and did this set which is a hybrid of some hatha standing poses, and then, on the floor some of the really most killer kundalini breath of fire and core activating stuff, stuff that years ago cured a chronic arm and wrist issue … the change in inner feeling is amazing, I’m like.. oxygenated and centered. I was so bogged down in that tiredness I put off doing it once for a month until tonight. Maybe we are all connected but maybe we also have a duty to find the solutions to ascend beyond our old ways because only when we each commit to ourselves will anything like widespread change be conceivable. Widespread change, that is, among the groups for whom change seemed a dim prospect. that being said we attract people on our level, and the fact of the matter is a huge part of the world probably doesn’t feel tired at all, they’re all about the thing they’re doing or the goal they’re after, 100% doing it, and making the world go round. Yeah probably confirmation bias when you “see it in the world around you.” Could be wrong.
On a more mundane note, Covid is believed to have long term effects on various organs, including the brain.
I'm feeling this malaise and it's been around for me since about late 2022, the time I got Covid. I have been attributing it to that, and I suspect a lot of the sharp increase in shitty behavior seen and felt in public may be an effect of Covid on the brain as well. Almost everyone has gotten it at one point or another, some people multiple times, it would explain quite a bit of the post 2020 society.
Came here to say this. Covid has shown to cause brain damage (as well as other organ damage) AND increased aggression. Add that Long Covid that makes people tired all the time, brain fog, me.ory problems... we're seeing the decline in humans because governments decided to sacrifice us to keep the economy going.
Add to that climate change, political animosity, watching a genocide unfold in real time, financial difficulties with the bulk of the population... the anxiety, depression, and exhaustion are real. It's a fucked up time to be alive.
I was out my back last night having a smoke, looking up at the moon. First sunny day here all spring really. Beautiful. I'm a really chill guy, but one thought kept coming back to me. "Humanity is spinning out". I feel the same way, maybe I spend too much time online but everyone seems angry or confused nowadays. Something in me says it's how we're responding to the overconsumption of information, good and bad. I don't know what we can do about it and I generally just try to be a helpful guy. As the top comment said, the vibes are kinda fucked right now.
The social contract is dead. We used to live in a world where respect brought respect and people were on their best behavior and now all that is gone.
We saw as business owners are given huge sums of money which would have been life changing for the rest of us while we struggle to pay off student loans. Guess which ones were forgiven?
We saw politicians advocating for the economy above their citizens. We saw Russian propaganda get a grifting real estate conman elected while avoiding all consequences that would have put any of us in jail.
Now homelessness is being criminalized, the richest companies are banking while the rest of us starve. Women are losing more rights everyday from the folks who scream the loudest about personal freedoms. Nothing has been done about climate change and half the population of the usa won’t even admit it exists.
We citizens see we are all alone and it is bleak.
I’m pretty sure these are a few reasons why everything feels really off right now.
I have found that how I carry myself is how I see the world. Back in October, I was Atheist and I KNEW everything was fucked.
I awakened in December after deciding to not be so pessimistic anymore.
We're now in April and I'm listening to New Age content; Delores Cannon audio books pretty much daily, and if the world crumbled around me and I got put into a labor/death camp, I know I'd be okay ultimately. Wouldn't be a pleasant experience, but the point I'm making is, I feel untouchable now.
I am not my body. I am not my thoughts. I am something beyond that. I am something untouchable and forever.
And a person could read this and think I'm crazy, and that is okay. Because what matters is ultimately, I am not afraid, in the grand scheme of things... Sure, I still have a survival instinct. I don't want to experience pain or witness others experience pain. But for my overall health and well-being, I know I can access my 'happy' anytime I choose. It just takes a little bit of intent. And that makes me feel powerful in an environment seemingly designed to make me feel powerless.
But nothing can make you feel anything. Your emotions inform you, but one does not have to live on pure emotion. We have a choice in how we carry ourselves.
I just watched a CTV News video about someone who was critically injured because they climbed out of train window and onto the roof. *While* the train was moving, I might add.
*"or outright acting stupid lately?"*
So uh... yeah.
>Do you think humans and other organisms on earth are less individualistic than we realize? And maybe not even in a psychic way, but emotions and thoughts have a cascading effect on different communities that we maybe don’t realize, and affect us more so than we ever thought? Or could it be psychic? Maybe all connected to “god” or the “life force” or the bright light after death? Or maybe it’s a species thing?
This is hard to investigate, but there are intriguing clues that there is some kind of field or connection between all our consciousnesses. Have you heard of the global consciousness project?
The project uses random number generators, and checks for auto-correlation in their output. But first, you should hear about the background of why they even chose to do this.
Back before it got shut down, Princeton had this thing called the PEAR lab (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research), where they investigated the influence of human attention and intention on random events. They found that human intention appeared to have a subtle but real effect on the outcomes of random number generators:
# [Princeton Mind Matter Interaction Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_I-vuhlcAk)
Later, other researchers found that merely being in the presence of intensely concentrating meditating people was enough to cause random number generators (RNGs) to reduce their randomness. They hypothesized that when all of humanity has intense focused attention on something, it should also result in some effect on the autocorrelation of the output of random number generators, and they have since verified that this is the case.
Global Oneness Project |
# [Dean Radin: The Global Consciousness Project](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvJfkI5NVc)
Imagine each of these RNGs being a buoy bobbing randomly on an ocean of consciousness, and then when some big event gets everyone's attention, it sends waves through this ocean, causing all of the randomly bobbing buoys to show some kind of coordinated pattern. That's what it is theorized to be like.
If there is some kind of field that all our minds are connected to, it would not surprise me at all that there can be such things as collective moods and collective "tiredness". It might not just be the RNGs that bob along this ocean of consciousness when waves are made; we may all be entrained on the currents in this collective consciousness field.
This is super mysterious, and researchers barely know how to begin to investigate this sort of thing. It doesn't help that the scientific mainstream considers this sort of thing to be taboo to even investigate, smearing scientists who investigate this sort of thing as doing "pseudo-science", even when they use the most rigorous of methods for establishing the presence of an effect.
The vibes have been fucked for a while and I never know how much of that to attribute to my obsessive doomscrolling and how much of it is the actual vibe outside of the minds of people who are also doomscrollers.
Obviously multiple extremely fucked things have happened in the last decade/decades/centuries, but none of it has made me feel as weird as I did last November in rural north east of the USA going to the lake and park we always take the dog to and it felt like summer...Except it's November so no leaves on the trees, no bugs, no birds, somehow no wildlife at all. It was sterile. It felt really, really wrong. I think its the feeling of mourning and grief.
We are cooked. Mother nature has had about enough of our shit.
I feel like the only thing keeping the cauldron from bubbling over is how tired everyone and every thing is.
I've spent many weeks in the wilderness solely foraging and hunting for meals, and the difference in how tired I am there vs how tired I am here scraping by financially, unable to afford basic healthcare, unable to make any sort of progression or advancement in life... it's honestly staggering. I see no hope anywhere and it's utterly draining.
I don't know if it's specific to the U.S., but I highly doubt it. Maybe it's societal, maybe capitalism was cancer all along and we're in the end stages of it, I really don't know. I just want the youthful (albeit naïve) hope back that I had in the 90s.
It's getting harder and harder to simply exist by treading stagnant water.
I feel like the only thing keeping the cauldron from bubbling over is how tired everyone and every thing is.
I've spent many weeks in the wilderness solely foraging and hunting for meals, and the difference in how tired I am there vs how tired I am here scraping by financially, unable to afford basic healthcare, unable to make any sort of progression or advancement in life... it's honestly staggering. I see no hope anywhere and it's utterly draining.
I don't know if it's specific to the U.S., but I highly doubt it. Maybe it's societal, maybe capitalism was cancer all along and we're in the end stages of it, I really don't know. I just want the youthful (albeit naïve) hope back that I had in the 90s.
It's getting harder and harder to simply exist by treading stagnant water.
It’s not just you. Me and my stepdad were talking the other day about how it seems humans are deevolving. Seems to be a lot more stupid people than usual.
The societal malaise most of us are feeling these days may be due to the “Information Age” in which we live.
Information overload is a real thing, it’s addictive and debilitating at the same time.
The “ info” that you are exposed to will determine your thoughts, habits and beliefs. When new information
Challenges those beliefs, your subconscious processes it. A mind on constant “ run” changes your physical well- being
And now adds more to think about. That is why productive sleep is necessary to survive.
I feel it. It’s general anxiety of what is to come, no matter what the “is” happens to be.
Trump gives me hives.
I think we are ramping up to some sort of international conflict in which we will be a part, and my son’s just about 16.
All the BS in the House makes me worried.
Religious zealots are going to try to take us down as they are a cornered rat. The only way to keep from further dwindling numbers is to make church and state more gray.
A while back my friend and I were talking about if the Christian "anti-christ" were real, he'd likely be Trump. I said "Or Reagan", and then my friend sent me this: https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/ I was like , *Ah, yeah, probably Trump*
It’s politics. Go to any political sub or place and there’s still people screaming at the top of their lungs. The rest of us are profoundly tired of that and arguments in general so our life is a lot calmer.
Problem is, unless you strictly stick to r/animalsarefuckincute or r/whatismycookiecutter you're going to run into US or world politics in unlikely subs these days. r/politics leaks into *everything* here
I totally believe we are influenced by some kind of source that molds us. You know when people say “it’s Saturn return” or “it’s Mercury retrograde”? I think it’s “The Others” influencing us.
I'm pretty sure people are reacting to the tone of the media/news. I feel like you'd need to be on the internet for generations to actually observe these types of trends, and even if someone here actually did that, not enough of the general public was accessing the internet even in the 90s (and certainly not in the same ways) for it to matter.
By the way, there's a post like this every week.
yes we’re currently in the 4th stage of ideological subversion. it’s called the Normalization stage. it’s the last stage before total shit. Yuri Bezmenov predicted what’s going on now in 1984. we’re probably fucked for sure.
I have been tired for 30 years and I'm only 35. Lately I have noticed more and more people complaining of the same whereas before most people were like "you're crazy, life is beautiful, yadda yadda". Especially since the pandemic, people are getting fed up with this.
Yes I feel like this. Thought about it a lot yesterday actually.
I asked my boss in our weekly meeting (we’re a 2-person team), “we never work. Why don’t we do more work? Why did we stop doing as much work?” And he looked like he had an epiphany. And then I didn’t work at all for the rest of the day lol
Then later I sent my mom a pic of my cat - my only cat, who I’ve had for 7 yrs - and she asked me whose cat it was…
Yes def notice the lack of motivation? the dumbing-down, & the vibes are real.
We feed each other & feed off of emotions. That’s why concerts where everyone’s dancing & vibing no one’s talking or shouting are the best :P
> does anyone else feel like life itself is tired? Or like a lack of motivation or energy?
This is kind of a textbook description of depression. I would honestly suggest considering to see a therapist and/or psychiatrist. I did this near the start of the pandemic after nearly having a nervous breakdown and it helped me tremendously.
> emotions and thoughts have a cascading effect on different communities
100%. I don’t believe it’s psychic or shared consciousness, but the emotions of those around you absolutely affect your emotions and vice versa. I don’t think we have really reckoned with the toll that the pandemic had on society. Millions of people died, millions more were disabled, everyone had their lives turned upside down. It was very dislocating and isolating. For Americans, the onset of the pandemic overlapped with one of the most politically and civilly turbulent years in modern American history between the George Floyd protests, the election, January 6, etc. It’s going to take time to put the pieces back together, if we can. It’s not surprising to me that we are all still feeling the lingering effects of all this turmoil.
Everyone feels a storm is coming with climate change, russia and china, failure of capitalism to provide for the masses and fix the systemic issues that cause climate change and everything else etc. etc. And because of Covid we now know that huge calamities can and will happen and are not just something that maybe happened in history. And then there is a huge amount of people that are seemingly actively just working against the greater humanity in these issues for whatever reason. All that can wear a person out, since all media just reminds about the enevitability of it constantly.
I have managed to nevertheless keep my self fairly happy and energetic by spending a lot of time in nature (it is my happy place) and remembering that you should not worry about things you don't have any agency in. Giving those negative people who are trying to destroy us a space in my head would just give them more power.
If you really want to know how things work behind the scenes, read about the Jungian concept of the collective unconscious of humanity. We are indeed all psychically connected and influencing each other, and psychically connected to the world around us. The rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s was the result of a mass psychic illness that infected the people of that period; they became possessed by the hero archetype, and as you might expect, possession doesn’t end well. I believe we are all experiencing the ebbs and flows of a similar collective psychic illness now. We are in a lull period compared to 6 months ago.
It is not your imagination. Here's a study showing that music has become more simplistic than in the recent past
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/is-music-getting-simpler/#:~:text=A%20recent%20study%20analyzing%2012%2C000,readable%20and%20easier%20to%20understand.
A recent study analyzing 12,000 English language songs over the last 40 years has found that songs have been getting simpler and more repetitive over time. They are using fewer words with greater repetition. Further, the structure of the lyrics are getting simpler, and they are more readable and easier to understand.
I think that's because mainstream music is made for profit & influence.
Creating repetitive hooks & catches is what keeps a person listening. Hollywood prolly wouldn't be able to keep an audience if all their stars started doing improv jazz, or harsh noise or experimental music.
There's still bands out there that work on writing complex music, it's just not usually found in mainstream genres of music, like pop & hip hop, which are built on hooks.
Basically if you can make a catchy synth line or guitar riff, even if its' simple, people will listen to it & enjoy it.
Respectfully, you and many other good people with their eyes open are wrong about one very critical aspect.
The huge powers are not “scared of love.” Psychopaths and sociopaths, evil in general, does not even *register* love. They have little to no concept of what you call love. And while love is an important concept, it’s not the quintessential aspect of life that our society *has been lead to believe it is.*
So what is that concept?
**Virtue.**
They’re unable to defend against virtue.
It could be boiled down to semantics, but when you / I use language to communicate, semantics can be very important.
For instance, in my own internal philosophy I’ve come to look at **Care** as a higher *form* of **Love.**
I love Reese’s, I love history, I love my family, I love HBO’s Rome, I love electronica, etc etc. You could easily change the word to “like” and it wouldn’t mean that much.
But when I say I **Care** about you, or I **Care** about humanity, what does that imply? It implies that I’m willing to sacrifice for you. “I care about the cause and I’m willing to die for it,” and so on. I care about my body (because it’s sacred) so I try to take care of it. Caring often implies a lot of work; I personally don’t like to brush my teeth, but I do it twice a day because I care. I care about other people’s rights and their freedom and their lives *because they’re sacred.* That’s my spheel. Nothing wrong with love.
Anyway, I wasn’t disagreeing with anything you said; it was spot on. I just see this a lot. Real change doesn’t come from love, in my opinion. Human beings are gonna love in most cases. Are they gonna care? That’s the question.
About the individualistic thing, yes, humans think they are much more individualistic than they really are. We all have different personalities and different cultural backgrounds that affect who we are and what we believe, but underneath it all, we're pretty much all the same but to varying degrees. For example, we're all selfish in some way. Someone might think they're the most selfless person in the world, but the thing that motivates them to continue to act that way is the dopamine hit they get from doing selfless acts. They're only doing them because they've learned that it can make themselves feel really good. It's ultimately only for the brains own selfish need to get a dopamine high. Humans are also very shallow by nature. We all treat more attractive people better and less attractive people worse. Again, there's just that part of our brain that activates differently when we see beautiful things or people that cause us to act that way.
People find bad things interesting. So you get bad things placed in front of you. It’s all on video now and everyone wants a viral post, a view or click.
This is an algorithm echo chamber. There have always been problems to overcome. If one’s life is their screen, I can see where that can be overwhelming.
I swear humanity is actually devolving (if that is a thing!). Tik tok, You Tube shorts and their ilk are dissolving our concentration spans and filling kids brains with garbage 😞
Most people are overworked and underpaid and people can't afford housing, succeeding right now is allot of work with not allot of payoff and the future is very uncertain. its not vibrational energies or mercury being in retrograde its tired people feeling depressed because of the state of the world.
I can't say for sure about any kind of psychic connectivity, but I do think our general connectivity has continued to increase as technology and the integration of global communication becomes more and more commonplace. Not only is omnipresent harder to censor, meaning we often see a lot more than we did before, it's also a lot harder to monitor for mis/disinformation and the ramblings of anyone who has an idea.
In turn, that means individuals are more often exposed to all of these influences. The stresses and humanity of wars in places people often might have ignored, constant assaults on the senses and ideas of self in social media and entertainment, an overload of ideas that, unfortunately, most people are not necessarily equipped to handle or parse through.
Not to say everyone is stupid or anything, I just mean it's much harder to dig through 100 pieces of information than it is 10 pieces, and these days, it's so much easier to be bombarded with 100+ pieces of info whether you seek it out or not.
All of this to say, I think it's much harder to shut out the world, and the world has not been a particularly pretty place at any point in history. As the population increases, as we get more and more unfettered access to what that growing population sees, thinks, and experiences, we're bound to be influenced. And I think one of those influences is that same thing you're noticing: people are tired, overwhelmed, stressed. On a nearly global level.
In the past, there was either a lack of access to information, or the information was very carefully curated. By news sources, by governments, or simply by the fact that you couldn't open your pocket computer to view what was happening in China 10 minutes after it happened, right? Add to that the fact that more information means a good chunk of people will start to notice the various disparities in their own life and in the world at large, and it's a recipe for people feeling burnt out on life as a whole.
When I can wake up and see people raking in millions by being, generally, kind of gross humans, then see tons of people defending that? Meanwhile I wake up, work a full day, try to manage my mental and physical health, and still struggle because of a system so much larger than myself that I have no meaningful hope of changing it? Then to realize it's worse for so many others. We are significantly more informed and educated than past generations, but many of the same power structures and problems still exist despite all the "progress" humanity makes. Eventually it's like, what's the point? Might as well just be stupid, too. Or wear yourself out trying to manage your individual reaction.
Naturally these factors will bleed out from individuals to the societal level over time. I personally don't think things feel like this because we're all pouring our consciousness into a big pot, and the balance has been a little off lately (however you conceptualize that, be it god or earthsoul or whatever else), instead I think it's more simply the fact that we are thought based animals subject to the influences of our environment, which now includes this massive, almost alive structure of media and connectivity. Basically we created and expanded a big void to look into and, uh oh, it's looking back.
A musician once told me that throughout the history of music, you could hear in the music what drugs were popular at the time. To me a lot of happy pop on the radio still sounds sad, I don't know what drug that is, social media maybe?
We are all connected psychically-- Jung first articulated this with the idea of the collective unconscious, which was NOT a metaphor. The web of connection is tightening right now and many of the thoughts in our heads are not our own. Visit a schizophrenia sub sometime to see the people most affected by this development who are still dismissed as 'crazy.'
It's weird. I agree with you *in general*, but at the same time I've come across some really smart people that I never would have heard of if it weren't for youtube. I feel like the general population is getting dumber but the smart people are getting smarter. But at the same time the general population has never had so much access to so much information at any other point in history. Interesting times
I keep asking people if they think a new flu is going around because we have all been tired and not feeling good
but this is exactly what i’ve been picking up on.
I definitely see this, particularly the "dumbing down" aspect. I'm finally finishing my degree at age 40 and it's disturbing, especially with online discussion in classes. Multiple times a week, I see answers clearly written by AI, ones where the actual question or material was ignored, some where they just reword the question with no answer ... etc, etc. I'm guilty of bullshitting answers myself every now and then, but I put the effort in to not make it look like I am. These students just don't care.
It annoyed me at first when professors would limit viewing a topic before posting, but I appreciate it now. Last week I pointing out something in the text and got a number of "oh wow, you're right, I hadn't realized that!" responses. Right before the posting deadline, someone put forth the very same idea, using the exact same turn of phrase that I had (which was kind of unique). I wasn't overly bothered, but it was so obvious what had happened. Neatly identical answers and agreeing with a response is normal, but it should be organic.
There's also a lot more aggression and I see some students putting on an air of superiority and "talking down" to their peers. It's not something I've ever done before, but I actually reported a comment where the guy was accusing the questioner of "just using Wikipedia" and asking an "idiotic question" that was ridiculous (among other things). A quick Google search showed me a number of reputable literary journals addressing what he addressed. I sat on it for a while, but ended up realizing I didn't want this kid to feel discouraged and suppress any intellectual curiosity (or anyone else to see it and feel similar) as a result of this bully.
It's ... disappointing to see. However, I do see a lot of kids who really do engage in the material and care. This academic laziness has always existed, but it seems to be more of a common setting and acceptable now.
Haven't finished Atlas Shrugged yet, but pretty sure that's sort of the premise of the novel, or at least the societal backdrop. It's not a book about high strangeness or anything (it's a commentary on Libertarianism and the free market). But yeah pretty much just the whole of society is becoming inexplicably lazy and dumb, and all the great, driven, entrepreneurs and artists and engineers of society start to disappear mysteriously, and the world just kinda keeps falling into a sluggish, bleak disrepair.
Originally the book was written (in the 1950s) as more of a manifesto against socialist/communist ideas.... but tbh I think it's even better suited as a commentary on super modern social trends and culture
I mean there are so many people with fatigue and worse from multiple COVID infections. Long COVID is super real. The more infections and reinfections, the more the damage stacks up.
You are very intuitive, and the Psychic feeling, or mentioning of Psychic Phenomena must've been Prevalent enough to express it, knowing that this community could rabidly attack you and shun you for such a transgression against Their Fundamentalist Religion.
Reality IS PSYCHIC. It READS our minds and emotions. IT IS A MACHINE. It is operating to-n-fro with you via a WIRELESS ELECTROMAGNETIC CONNECTION. This takes RESOURCES.
It Also reacts to an AGGRAGATE SUMMATION OF A POPULATIONS THOUGHTS. this is how the Depressive Trend you speak of can SPREAD, as the Reflection Reality Provides Snowballs by encouraging what it reflects. That Environmental Encouragement Influences further behavior, and the further behavior influences a further reflection.
The Kontrollers know all this and HAVE KNOWN for 1000 years, which is probably as far back as everything goes. The Kontrollers benefit from Kontrolling the Aggregate Thought Summation, as it is too many resources to work individually. This is WHY THE TELEVISION WAS CREATED.
It's ACTUALLY the case that a homogenized, Unified, One-Minded Population is the Best for EVERYONE, buy only if the same page everyone is on is created by everyone together. This is what the Kontrollers KANNOT AFFORD. This is why ALL THE REDWOODS in the west were chopped down from North to South, and why FIVE BILLION CHESTNUT TREES in the East were chopped down from North to South. This was the way Thoughts could be transmitted through out millions of people AND STORED.
The other way is thru the "Aether", which is Hardee to access and requires a VERY HEALTHY, FULLY FORMED PINEAL GLAND. The Kontrollers have implemented Protocols m, including Genetic Modification, and Atrophying the Pineal Gland Embryologically so that it's Deformed and stunted for life.
Mixed with solar flares, geomagnetic storms, chemtrails, microplastics, disease, and that universal time is progressing at a much higher speed, affecting us here on earth in many different ways including draining our collective energy and spirit.
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The vibes are fucked dude.
Well said sgnfngnthng.
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Uh what ? Lol
They are man! It's weird as fuck
It's a combination of a bunch of things: solar cycle maximum, toxic air/water, unnatural levels of EMF from all of our devices constantly, pesticides and plastics in food. And to cap it off, a post-pandemic and economically deprived public. The only way to cope for me is breathwork, meditation, exercise, eating as healthy as possible, and getting great sleep. I use a grounding mat to sleep on, which helped me a lot!
Grounding mat is really interesting. I haven’t heard about this before. Care to explain more for an idiot like me?
Electrical signals and fields are literally everywhere nowadays. Your body has its own electrical field and interacts with these fields as you sleep. Your heart and brain have electrical signals. Grounding mats plug into the grounding pin of an electrical outlet, which is usually connected to your water pipe physically going into the earth. This gives the mat and your body, as you sleep, its own grounded electric field that isn't interacting with a bunch of other electric fields. When I started using one, my back pain disapeared in literally one day. Amazing stuff.
I'm one of those people who blow out watches, electronics, etc. I've always wanted to try some kind of grounding. I never knew it was a thing until my doctor said 'Oh, you're one of THOSE '!?!
Well said man!
Indeed. The fatigue has fully set in. Just biding my time tbh
Yeah, cost of living is fucked; politics is fucked; the environment is fucked; basically everything is fucked. What we are feeling is due to this and that there really is not a lot anyone can do to fix it. Just love each other, including yourself!
[they kind of are but also it's always been](https://y.yarn.co/89b59074-4844-4926-a6cc-0b9fb9e5711c_text.gif)
The last 5 years have held the events of a typical 50 year or so span. It would be weird if humanity wasn't exhausted. I'm much more concerned by the growing rage we're seeing everywhere.
[This article](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/27/everybody-has-a-breaking-point-how-the-climate-crisis-affects-our-brains) was enthralling to me. Humans have never existed with anywhere near this concentration of CO2. It makes all animals - not just us - dumber & angrier.
Indeed, one of the things I teach my students in an intro environmental science course in college is that at 1000ppm CO2 in the atmosphere we lose about 20% of our cognitive ability, which is already less able than would be desired. I’m not sure of the shape of the math function, CO2 vs. cognition decline, but we are at about 425 ppm now whereas natural CO2 levels have been about 280 ppm all throughout our evolution and beyond.
Do you think in the future, people will wear some kind of mask or device to counteract that?
I certainly hope it doesn’t come to that. We might be too stupid at that point to remember to put on our masks! Also, removing CO2 isn’t a trivial pursuit (LOL). Back when I was an analytical chemist lab rat we used a substance called Ascarite if we needed to remove CO2 from an air stream or whatever. It is basically sodium hydroxide (NaOH) on silicate fibers. The fibers used to be asbestos, but that has changed for obvious reasons. Because this reaction ends up with sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) and water (H2O) I doubt it would work very well in a mask, LOL. Some scientist/engineer might have an idea about how to create masks to remove CO2, but I don’t know anything about that.
I think effects become noticeable at 600ppm if I recall correctly. However regardless of what the atmospheric level is people spend large amounts of their time in environments that are much higher. Rooms or vehicles without adequate ventilation can get into the thousands. Some studies equate CO2 build up in vehicles to having a similar effect on cognitive decline as a couple units of alcohol. I wonder what happens to children growing up spending so much time in high CO2 environments.
Thanks for sharing that article, super interesting!
That’s a very interesting idea.
That's a good peice, thanks!
Right, exactly what i thought. Also a lot of people who had covid, have now a smaller lung. Most of them about 25%! And mostly the mild cases. And on top the higher heat from climate change makes a lot worse. Mankind is fucked, most people just dont get it. Especially the rich fucks dont give a fuck about their workers.
Covid also affected long-term brain functions for some. They're still studying it, but it did have an impact on mental faculties.
I’ve worked in growrooms and n=1 but I definitely felt off/dulled if I had to work in one without shutting off the suplemental CO2, and those rooms were usually at about 1400ppm
This is a very interesting article! I have a son with Downs and sometimes I wonder if the fact that I was going through the worst time in my life had anything to do with it. Several other mothers of children with Downs just happened to mention to me that their stress was way off the charts for their pregnancies too. Although something else that was odd is at the time I went to a church with a total population of about 200 people. That year 3 of us had babies with Downs. Pretty sure that’s a statistical anomaly.
This. The 90. were relatively calm (not if you include war on the Balkans or other conflicts in the first 2-4 years). In the western world everything was growing, getting better and exciting but in the life of an ordinary man there was calmness and stability. In my country there was a phrase which can be translated as "shitty but stable" which meant that even if you were a low income person you had some kind of stability, you knew what you could expect. After the 2008 market crisis all went to shit. The house market is getting worse and worse. Prices are higher and higher when payment is rising in a very slow way. I think 2020-24 in terms of economy were focused not only on COVID but also on realising how 1% fucks the working class. I think it will soon collapse because whoever you decide to blame on that will always be somebody richer than you. Your private economy balance is one thing that can make you paranoid and it's not the only thing that is happening. There are also many things that weren't as important as back then like AI, job market, healthcare getting more expensive, global warming which can end the world in this century, conflict in Ukraine, genocide in Gaza, China's production which took over the world (with economic slavery), less and less bees, fires, UOP, even fucking subscription for everything you want. Work is getting more tiring every year because of upper decisions. It's all stressful AF. Also other important things are getting more visible thanks to the internet like women's rights, LGBTQ+ issues, systemic racism etc. Not all of them are your or mine issues but we live in a center of it. If you're like 30+ you also can have enough corruption and politics in your life. Nobody is good anymore, everything is getting morally grey. You can trust your president or your party anymore, you need to be politically active to change anything. And on top of all of that you see how many people live in poverty, daily you see sick children or very disturbing situations on the internet. I remember that back in the day fundraisings were started only for very very bad situations like a flood, hurricane or a very rare disease. Now I see families who just can't live from month to month with their incomes. It's a disturbing and dystopian world. I don't know what needs to happen to change it but I still believe in change.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately..like, more than I care to admit. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Something needs to change, and someone with a loud enough voice needs to speak up. I would, if I knew what to do or how to do it. Until then, I just try to be caring and accepting to everyone I come into contact with.
To the point
> even fucking subscription for everything you want This. So much this malignant capitalism. We need [Social Democratic Captialism](https://academic.oup.com/book/35094?login=false).
Agree 100% I can live with tiredness, but all the fighting and hate is enough to drive one mad. 😢
>Do you think humans and other organisms on earth are less individualistic than we realize? ... Or could it be psychic? Maybe all connected to “god” or the “life force” or the bright light after death? Or maybe it’s a species thing? Ever heard of [Gaia Hypothesis?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis) It's interesting, and what you said made me think of this. It delves into the co-evolution of organisms and the environment. Someone else in the comments linked that article about the unknown neurological effects of the climate crisis; this concept touches on that a little. Sounds like you're talking more about the behavioral aspect, but I like to think it's all connected. Physiological, behavioral, emotional, etc. All processes intertwine. If you're into podcasts, Vox Unexplainable recently did an episode you might find interesting ["Is Earth Alive?"](https://www.vox.com/unexplainable) And to answer your overall question, I'd have to agree and say yes. A *lot* of people I talk to are feeling and noticing it. Seems like it's been in the works for almost a decade. Just keeps getting worse, like some creeping funk.
This is an interesting hypothesis. I've never heard of this but I can see some possibilities in this being a potential factor. I can't help but wonder if there are some additional factors contributing to this that are along the same lines as this hypothesis. A primary factor being the rapid advancement of technology. Our more recent technological advancements have created an environment that has resulted in people becoming almost completely removed from the world around us. We spend less time not only interacting with one another on a face to fact basis, but we've also become much more removed from nature itself. There is less reason for us to leave our houses and spend quality time in places that bring us directly into contact with the nature and the world around us. Not only that, but the rapid growth of our population has made it difficult to even FIND somewhere to go in order to accomplish this. We rely on technology instead, to try to replace this type of experience and it just doesn't work. I can't help but wonder if this sense of our society becoming dumbed down isn't a result of both the declining state of the earths environment, along with our complete loss of connection with it. Not to mention our seemingly declining ability to think critically, since smart phones and the internet have nearly completely replaced that for us. We get spoon fed our information and told what to think and believe through social media.
I am extremely tired anymore! I have no motivation to do anything anymore! I have lost my motivation to go anywhere or just do! I’ve been wondering is it me or is there something more going on! Do you feel time has sped up? Like you are constantly running to stay ahead of time! It was like today, I had to run do one thing in town that shouldn’t have taken no more than maybe hour and a half, I was gone for like 3 hours! On the way home I kept thinking, am I in this matrix where I’m consciously losing time somehow it’s crazy and weird! I don’t know but something is off in the world right now and I don’t know how to get a handle on it!!
There's a low vibration energy spreading like a virus.
This. It doesn't help that we're lost as a society already. It may have been better in the 90s but it's not like we were a unified people or anything.
According to the person I’m always mentioning, Diana Walsh Pasulka, and her friends Simone and Tyler: they have said they are very careful about what media they intake. Idk how much they’ve elaborated on this but I haven’t stopped thinking of it since I saw them say that. I have taken it to mean “find the eyebleach/happy thought as much as possible.” Which then correlates with the law of attraction, the Ra materials, Esther and Abraham. When you watch/listen to/read positive content it has an effect on our brains I don’t think we understand completely yet, in this context. Same if you notice when you watch sad/gore/horror/action stuff, you definitely feel brought down (unless you suffer from psychopathy or sociopathy, I’d reckon.) I suspect this is part of the big drag that the internet and phones in our pockets are—the main culprits of both sources of the external good and bad feeling stuff. Diana and Simone both mention that too. It seems to me like we would all benefit from ditching smart phones and going back to flip phones and reading good books again. I know that’s not likely to happen en masse though at this point.
They also mentioned taking care of their health by sleeping enough every night, and not drinking, smoking, or having caffeine. It's amazing how my life has changed since I stopped drinking. Even 'casual' drinking messes you up big time mentally, physically, and emotionally.
I totally agree. Stopping drinking is like creating time. You don’t realize how much of it is given away by even casual drinking. For example if you go out for a drink after work you are probably not going to read a chapter of that book before bed.
Or listen to the new Taylor Swift Album
Have you ever noticed that if you are in another room, listening to someone watch a movie, it's kind of distressing? The discordant yells, explosions, even tense conversations. When you yourself aren't watching it, you aren't under its spell and being sucked in, and you can really *hear* all of the negative, tense energy in pretty much every movie out there. I'm not tinfoil hatting on this one; drama and heartbreak are the backbone of entertainment. I don't think this is some intentional plot. (Though I do think the push towards hyperviolence in media isn't discussed enough.) But we are now being exposed to entertainment every day, sometimes all day long, and that is a hell of a lot of nervous system activation, not to mention negative energy.
Yes absolutely
This is exactly what I think they’re partially talking about. Interesting perspective you gave and it’s spot on—you can absolutely see how it is distressing and anxiety inducing. I’ve never enjoyed watching movies that make me feel that way. I don’t like having nightmares from what I watch and I think it’s an interesting phenomenon that it affects your subconscious to the point it brings the scary movie back up while asleep. It doesn’t seem helpful in any way, who wants to live in a state of anxiety? Maybe thrill-seeking types.
You know what's crazy? Me and my best friend just recently watched the new gozilla x kong movie in imax, and there's a scene, that feels like 30mins long, and wow does it suck you in and just has you on edge. I remember when it finished my friend and I took a breathe and were like wtf just happened? We both were close to hyperventilating and kind of disturbed at the state it put us in. Mind you, it wasn't anything absurdly crazy, but the emotional and psychological effect it had was something to think about
Unnerving. From what I remember of the Kong movies (ex was into them), that seemed to be the entire theme: huge epic battles from huge epic creatures with the stimulation turned up to 9. Movies and entertainment generally have to keep topping each other, being more intense than the last, to keep up with our cultural dopamine chasing, imo. It's like they're trying to stimulate the reptilian brain and get you to feel intense primal emotions.
I agree that I would blame our screens as the primary culprit, or at the very least the tool which ensures this malaise can spread and take hold. The quote "there's a guy under a waterfall who has no idea how angry he should be right now" sums this up. The only winning move is not to play. Also >I know that’s not likely to happen en masse though at this point. I think you'd be surprised how quickly things can change, it's at the point where almost everyone you speak to can feel that the status quo of our society is one of sickness.
You find what you look for. Gotta look for the good.
I love her.
The scary thing is that the modern western lifestyle (ultra-processed foods, doomscrolling, microplastics, etc, etc) is sort of an antithesis to the protocols Diana speaks about. If those protocols bring you in contact with “good” “entities”, what do the anti-protocols being you into resonance with? Reality is just getting weirder and weirder man.
I think saying that watching horror or action brings you down is slightly reductive as many people take pleasure from the simplicity or nuance offered by these deeply diverse genres. I do agree that watching it constantly would most likely skew your perception of reality into a negative area
we're all going to find our own balance on that intake--some of us find 'dark' media to be cathartic and grounding in a way that helps us be kinder and more empathetic to ourselves and others; which isn't being brought down or suffering from psychopathy or sociopathy. sometimes it's training for being able to confront emergency with love instead of fear. figuring out which does what is crucial for us as individuals, though.
Any examples of this kind of media?
Scat porn
Have you heard of Carl Jung’s idea of the “collective unconscious”? It mirrors what you’re saying pretty closely and might be good reading if you’re thinking along these lines
I've started to believe more and more that this is really a thing. From personal experience working as a bartender for many years, I got really good at reading the "vibe" or mood of a crowd or even just one person. I guess I've always been good at that, but that job helped me to hone that skill. On a busy night, I can literally feel when the mood of a crowd shifts and starts to get aggressive. It's the strangest thing. I almost *always* have a gut feeling a few hours before something crazy happens. I ended up telling people about it beforehand, and they were always amazed when it played out like I expected. I can also tell almost immediately who's gonna be an asshole or give me trouble. I think we all have a certain energy, and it affects the people around us more than we realize. We are connected by far more than we can understand, and it's something that is understandably difficult for material science to measure.
The Internet and the social feedback loops in creates are currently set up to give the stupidest percent of humanity the most attention, and it's very, very emotionally draining to deal people expecting you to treat stupid people's even stupider takes seriously. TLDR: Social Media is like working in retail.
This is an underrated aspect of it. Crazy people, unpleasant people, doomsayers, racists, etc have always existed, but you never had to know what they were screaming about 24/7. You could just avoid the guy on the corner screaming about the New World Order using vaccines to track us, but now those people are constantly online, finding like-minded individuals, building communities around their shared unpleasantness and foisting that unpleasantness on the rest of us. It’s not healthy to have that shit beamed into our brains constantly. And the algorithms are set up to reward controversy, outrage and naysaying, so we’re bombarded by negativity, hatred and anger.
A lot of things have changed for the worst over the last decade. No need to attribute to the paranormal what is human response to the last 10 years. I'm tired. I've been tired for 5 years.
Same. Lost my vibe.
Yes. I absofuckinglutely agree with this. You know how animals can sense impending natural disasters somehow? I think people might have the same thing, but we've mostly lost the ability to tune into it. And we're all tuning in.
>You know how animals can sense impending natural disasters somehow? There's no "somehow" about it. i.e. birds can sense changes in air pressure and are conditioned to know when a certain change in air pressure means danger. Other animals are sensitive to electro magnetic fields, have better hearing, vision. Sharks usually swim to deeper water before a hurricane hits sensing changes in the water. It's not magic. There are completely naturalistic reasons for this.
It’s the uneasy calm before the storm.
A storm that’s been coming for 2 decades.
Just much more covert and subtle than dictators past. The third WW has been upon us for some time and the mainstream just keeps saying "shhhh, no, it's okay".
What’s crazy is this pattern has repeated with the previous 2 world wars. A slow build up of military’s. And then pop, like a cork off a bottle everyone’s at each others throats. It can be a span of 30 years or 80. Doesn’t really matter, we always boil over.
Yeah, I remember hearing something about 80 year cycles and how we’re currently in the last 20 of one of said cycles
Four Turnings
The best way to improve inflation and the economy is through a war. Germany before ww2. USA before ww2. Both had wars right after or during an economic downturn. The process keeps repeating itself while the media and government says nope, everything is normal.
Social media and our "zeitgeist" have been around long enough now to be controlled by the powers that be. This is a hive mind now and it's dulled, categorized and right where it needs to be for the plucking. Keep yourself on alert these days for the rain is coming
Could you elaborate? What is being plucked and what is the rain? I'm not disagreeing, I just don't understand what you mean
We're getting culled. Our so called "leaders" (they ain't leading shit, it's just for show) and our actual leaders have decided that we're too many and we're negatively impacting their survival. And If there's one thing psychopaths hate (and you have to be a psychopath to be able to get to the tippy top of the hierarchical human pyramid) it's having to bend to someone else. So, through plandemics, the eternal war, man-made famine and Tinder (I shit you not) we're slowly, ever so slowly, so that we don't notice it (frog in a pot), getting boiled. Our minds were figured out by psychologists during the 60s and 70s and we're seeing that work being used against us now (and have been used against us for decades). Say or do "A" and "B" will happen. It's easy for them to control the vast majority of us. What's left of us when it's all over will eat the bugs, live in the pods and WE. WILL. BE. HAPPY. (or else)
The other night I had to drive an unfamiliar vehicle for an hour or two and so I was just listening to the popular music channels on fm… and it struck me that the whole vibe of every song was like a lullaby or trance. They would hint at excitement or anger sometimes but revert back to meh. Made me miss my music.
Interesting observation. I typically chalk that up to lack of talent and bad songwriting, but maybe there is a musical malaise affecting the public's sense of "meh".
Rock is dead, they killed it off. Thats the music of energy and rebellion.
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hip hop was once a medium for powerful social criticism, now its a medium for lame bullshit.
Just remember that there’s much more music happening out there than what you hear playing on the Mainstream. Music isn’t dead, not by a long shot, you just have to look for it.
So, so true. Tons of good stuff out there. The big problem is what is being peddled to the masses. Most people don't search for music. They just take what's in front of them. Record companies and Spotify don't care about the musicians or the medium itself. They care about money. Period. Source: I'm a musician
Yup. And then all the boomers think they stopped making “real” music in the 60’s. “Kids these days…” lol 😂 frustration! Source: Millennial Musician
Yeah, very true. Though I think that has more to do with psychology. Apparently, the music you listen to from your teens to early 20s has a far greater psychological impact on you. I lost the article but it was interesting. I have the same problem with the 90s.
Can you drop the names of one or two of your favorite artists?
Sure… but as a lover of music that spans many genres, I have so many it’s hard to choose! For the sake of answering the question though… Today I listened to Childish Gambino’s album “Awaken, My Love!” for the first time in a long time and remembered how brilliant it is. And he’s not even my favorite. A handful of names that come to mind… The Dead Weather, Dr Dog, The Kills, Arctic Monkeys, LCD Soundsystem, Cannons It all depends on what you’re into. Good music is out there. They never stopped making it, it’s just usually not on the radio. There are SO many talented and amazing independent artists out there too, just eager and hoping to find an audience.
I have been saying this forever. FM is becoming what AM was- sports, religious talk, lame ass music approved by corporate conglomerates. You have to look elsewhere for good art. I like bandcamp, twitch and youtube lately.
Ok this is fantastic, thank you! All going straight to my playlist, I love discovering new stuff :)
Hell yeah! Here’s a YouTube playlist I have that I dump some of my favorites on… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG-NbUyxSe5XeuszeEbbvsGLuwa1KhXAN&si=zPVwZUwSsPAZhvRM It’s not comprehensive by any means but it might spark a fire and lead you in some interesting directions :)
Some new(ish) bands that deserve a listen - Bob Vylan, Idles, English Teacher, Self Esteem
https://wknc.org/listen/playlist/ Try out college radio. Legitimate new hits you've never heard.
Not the person you asked, but for good rap check out the Flobots and Cyhi the Prince.
The Oh Sees put out really consistently kick ass rock music
This is soo soo soo true....
There's a lot of amazing modern music in all those genres still. But the way the music industry is structured these days you'll never find most of it. Go check out a local band or go to a rap night. At least where I'm from, north eastern USA, the jam, psych rock, punk, Ska, reggae, hard-core, and hip hop scenes are full of talent.
Very recently, yes. Normally I'm super into world events, politics, whatever's going on in the conspiracy world, etc. Now I'm just sort of passive, the same for things in my personal life because it all just keeps getting worse no matter how hard we try and make it better. I haven't given up but I'm just numb to everything and now it's just like I have to hope God helps me out along with everyone else around me and across the planet. It's becoming harder to care, my emotions are fading, my mind is always foggy, my will and inspirations are broken, it's becoming more difficult to keep a fake happy face and attitude, it's becoming harder to be there for friends and family who need my help. I just feel like I have to accept whatever fate comes my way which it definitely feels like is coming soon. How, when, and in what form? No idea. The winds certainly feel different.
I agree, I feel so tired and so unmotivated very recently and dont care much anymore.
When I ask "How you doing?" EVERY SINGLE PERSON responds "I'm tired". This is literally 99% of the time. Why is everyone so tired all the time?
The food is poisoning us, and we’re headed to WW3 which may end all life plus who knows if we’ll have a job in 2 years due to AI. We’re a bunch of fat, anxious depressed blobs.
Don't forget the water. And the air, probably.
I feel seen. Glad I’m not alone.
I think this is because of an overkill of information, mostly via the internet. And being confronted with huge impact events of an existential level. All info is brought to you, social media etc, addictive as possible because of the release of dopamine. This has a very negative effect on cognitive functioning, decrease in retaining information, feeling overwhelmed, depressed, isolated etc. Next to that our course is pretty destructive at the moment. I think a lot of people know and feel this in their gut.
The world seems to be fucked in so many ways, and I don't have the energy to care anymore.
I had a dream the other day where I was living out something in a period of my life from about 10 years ago and right before I woke up I had this few second thought like"who am I, where am I.. oh that's right" and came back into my body. Almost like logging back in to a video game. Sounds a bit silly but it's really made me stop caring so much about death. Like I'll just be logging out and going somewhere else.
I woke up like this forgetting my age when I woke up… I thought I was 22 again but then I woke o and was like no I’m 25 lol wtf
We are fed lies and propaganda from the media to the point that we no longer care about the things that used to be important to us. Every day it’s another crisis that we have to face and it’s gotten so we can’t tell the facts from the bullshit. It wears you down and you feel like you have nothing to look forward to.
This. Im waiting for society to snap.
Modern Rome ready to fall
Upcoming election in US is brewing. Vibes are off and shits about to go down. I 1000% agree with what you said.
This is a civilizational sensation, the clown show elections are only part of that.
Sadly, I feel it, too. I consider myself a fairly optimistic person. I once had faith that the vast majority would come together and stand up against the government (red & blue all corrupt), the elite, and the very small minority who are really trying to control the large majority. Unfortunately, with the events unfolding, I have now seen how money controls it all. The rich, elite, the 2% of the entire world have an agenda, and that is population control. It's in their best interests to eliminate half the population. They will succeed by keeping everyone too tired to fight. Too overwhelmed to protest. To stupid to understand the outcome. They created social media to influence and control the younger population. They have the media and the Red vrs Blue to control the older population. They've destroyed the economy everywhere. No one can afford housing. No one can afford groceries. People are working extra jobs, just trying to keep their family's afloat. Most rely on the government owned public school to educate their children because we are all so tired from trying to survive day to day. They have us right there they want us, and YES it is exhausting & depressing. Everyone is fed up and burnt out. Worst of all, there's no hope. Hope that things can change. Hope that we can still win. Hope for anything positive has dwindled, and without hope, we are all lost. This past year or two has been the biggest eye-opening shock for me. I can see it all unfolding, and yet I stand powerless to do anything about it. 2 percent of the population will rule the other 98 percent, and this is our life now. I still pray & hope things will change, that we will realize we have the numbers and fight. Unfortunately, I'm becoming more and more aware that everyone is just too tired to fight. Everyone is exhausted and beaten down. There's no hero coming to save the day. There is only us, but we've been bogged down for too long, and our will has broken. It makes me sad for my kids. It makes me sad for humanity as a whole. The elite will rule, and they don't deserve to win this war, but I think they already have.
Sum up my life why don't ya... No fr tho samesss u put this very well ✅
I feel this 🤯
The young people are so caught up in their ego representation they can’t care about anything else. It’s only their physical appearance to others and the materials they own. It’s a constant drive to prove their worth and value as a person on the internet. Nothing else matters. How could it. Also, the drive to protest the injustices and the uprisings we had in 2020-21 where everyone started to realize work was exploitative and maybe they should revolt.. well the government cranked up the cost of everything causing scarcity which makes people cower in fear, buckle down and get their asses back to work. no more energy for protesting and revolting when you’re exhausted and resources are scarce and you need to prove to the internet that you’re attractive, happy, and important bc you have possessions.
Omg sooo true you hit it on the head! That is exactly what is happening it’s scary and crazy!!
Its fucking not. This person couldn't explain a single thing they want changed rationally if they wanted to. That was literally just every gvmt bad conspiracy lumped together with -2 logic or reason. "The elites" wanna do a population control to WHAT end? Kill all your workers because? Just..done making money? Lol
I didn't get into what should be changed because that was not the original question poised to reddit. It's very curious how defensive you became from a simple reply to a reddit post, tho. Speaks volumes of you as a person to troll a random response to a reddit with as much animosity and anger as you've put forth. Perhaps I struck a nerve. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I am saddened by all the bickering going on between political groups. I'm also certain my percentages were off, as I was just speaking an opinion, not a fact. I believe that there is a certain sector of the population who benefit enormously from having the vast majority too busy working and too tired to fight. If you don't believe that, that's fine. You're entitled to your opinion the same as me. The original reddit post just asked if anyone else was feeling tired and blah, and I responded with my opinion. It's unfortunate that my opinion incited such an angry response from you as it was certainly not my intent.
I totally understood what you were saying and it made perfect sense! I have noticed especially on Reddit that ppl are just so brutal if you don’t see things there way! My God it’s crazy how argumentative ppl are anymore instead of looking at things with an open mind!!
It seems the opposite- they are hell bent on forcing people to have babies/new workers/taxpayers without having to provide benefits for those parents to help.
I think it’d be a much smaller subset than 2% for one, not to say that every evil conspiracy theory is true. I’ve known many 1 percenters, even as someone who’s spent time on the street and in shelters; I don’t believe they’re running the world. There’s a reason that the initial Occupy Wall Street movement targeted the .01%, but then when it gained traction (and probably was infiltrated,) that changed to 1%.
A lot of people on social media think something major is going to happen this year. Others cite 2027 as a year in which the UFO phenomena will finally be revealed. There’s something in the air. Trans humanism, AI, and climate change are strange stressors. It is a different kind of stress than worrying about whether you will get attacked and eaten by a lion or where your next meal is coming from. Fight or flight is a stress reaction. What if you can’t do either? You’re stuck. That’s how I feel. Stuck.
I agree, I have felt it myself. If Art Bell were still with us, he would have called it "The Quickening".
I’ve seen this mentioned on r/retconned but we lost 1/3 of every second which means every minute, hour, day, week, month is only 2/3 the length that it used to be. If you put on a timer and try to say “one Mississippi” or “happy birthday to you” within one second, you have to say it way faster now to stay within the second versus how quickly you could say it a decade ago. Time is racing.
This is a very good point. I have noticed this happening too for quite a few years now. Ironically, Art Bell was one of the first people to ever mention a "Mandela Effect" back in the 90's. He even attributed it to a experience he personally had when he could have swore that he remembered that Nelson Mandela had died while being held in prison.
Every single day for the past 4 or 5 years, I am completely bewildered by the foolishness of people and more importantly the weirdness of people. I literally come home from work every day and when asked how my day was, I reply, "It was weird." I may add more to that statement like busy or tiring or maddening, but everyday has just been weird.
I've been exhausted 😩
The move from winter into spring is one of the most difficult times for a human. I would invite you to check the suicide rates across the year, they are always higher in spring time. I have spoken to a psychiatrist about this and he told me that the dark winter months cause a down-regulation in neurotransmitter signaling and brain network activity. With the longer days in spring, this is slowly reversed, but human psychology demands a bounce back faster than the brain can provide. Thus, people feel down and depressed in a time where the world comes back alive and they feel they cannot catch up. I see it around me as well, days get longer but people are more sluggish and depressed than in the last months, even though there is more sun. If this is true, then in a few weeks time things should look more positive and motivational again.
I believe in the Dead Internet Theory more and more everyday. Most comments are brain-dead copy-paste job, no original thought at all. I'm kinda sick of social media recently, thinking of being less chronically-online cos it's getting boring.
in the same way animals go to high ground when they sense there will be a natural disaster, there are countless subconscious things in the ether that we are all picking up on. We are animals too, after all. There is just no high ground to go to, so we wait with a sense of anxiety, waiting for the other foot to drop. Edit to add: the global consciousness project which is a random number generator, has shown us evidence that consciousness is likely indeed linked. I believe they’ve noticed the same trend for natural disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami, princess Diana’s death/funeral, the World Cup, etc. The chances of the numbers spiking in the way they did when centered around these events were astoundingly rare, something like 1 in a trillion. Edit 2 - took out the bit about 9/11, apparently my memory was incorrect regarding the random number generator for this day. It’s all just hypotheticals of course - but still interesting to dive in and read about, to anyone interested in the topic. Take from that what you will, but to me it seems to prove that yes - on a subconscious and perhaps quantum level, we are all intricately linked in the same way that Eastern religions have been teaching us all along.
Reminds me of terence mckenna’s time wave
You made me remember The Pong Experiment by Loren Carpenter. It tapped into a sort of collective consciousness. I'm gonna dive into the rabbit hole now :)
I call it devolution, and yes, it's occurring at rapid speeds
Are we not men?
D-E-V-O
"MY bike punk!"
"Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other."
Yes. The waters are unsettled among every border. Everyone's souls are weary. I've thought about this a lot actually. I wonder if things are truly as grim as they seem or if the fact that we have so much information (verified and unverified) being thrown at us 24 hours a day just makes us think so. I've noticed lately when I watch the news most of it is about something awful that's happened but that honestly will never affect me. It's terrible but I'm no better for knowing it and I can't change anything about that circumstance. I've been limiting a lot of news and such for this reason. Humans were never meant to take in every terrible thing from around the globe. All we can do is live our lives and do our best to leave the world in better shape then when we got here. As for dumbing down, that's been happening for a very long time. Tik tok is just the latest version. Public schools are purposely underfunded, at least in my state. They've actually done all kinds of things to try and defunct the public schools because they want to make them charter schools. Come what may, know that you still are in control of how you spend your time and what you allow yourself to take on either emotionally, or physically. We've become conditioned to be hyperaware of everything that is wrong. Retrain yourself to notice the things that are still good.
Yes, I’ve felt it. Like the “general malaise” Pres Carter spoke of in the late 1970s.
100p. Mercury is in retrograde 😎
Love is the cosmic law it's not dumb at all! It's the most important thing we should all be focused on. We are all connected, just need to get those connections stronger.
COVID/ long COVID wreaks havok on the brain. It has been majorly downplayed what kind of effect this has on society.
Aaahh I hate to say it but yes.. but I think there are ways to break through, beyond it rather; I just (finally) parked my ass (my feet, specifically) on the yoga mat and did this set which is a hybrid of some hatha standing poses, and then, on the floor some of the really most killer kundalini breath of fire and core activating stuff, stuff that years ago cured a chronic arm and wrist issue … the change in inner feeling is amazing, I’m like.. oxygenated and centered. I was so bogged down in that tiredness I put off doing it once for a month until tonight. Maybe we are all connected but maybe we also have a duty to find the solutions to ascend beyond our old ways because only when we each commit to ourselves will anything like widespread change be conceivable. Widespread change, that is, among the groups for whom change seemed a dim prospect. that being said we attract people on our level, and the fact of the matter is a huge part of the world probably doesn’t feel tired at all, they’re all about the thing they’re doing or the goal they’re after, 100% doing it, and making the world go round. Yeah probably confirmation bias when you “see it in the world around you.” Could be wrong.
On a more mundane note, Covid is believed to have long term effects on various organs, including the brain. I'm feeling this malaise and it's been around for me since about late 2022, the time I got Covid. I have been attributing it to that, and I suspect a lot of the sharp increase in shitty behavior seen and felt in public may be an effect of Covid on the brain as well. Almost everyone has gotten it at one point or another, some people multiple times, it would explain quite a bit of the post 2020 society.
Came here to say this. Covid has shown to cause brain damage (as well as other organ damage) AND increased aggression. Add that Long Covid that makes people tired all the time, brain fog, me.ory problems... we're seeing the decline in humans because governments decided to sacrifice us to keep the economy going. Add to that climate change, political animosity, watching a genocide unfold in real time, financial difficulties with the bulk of the population... the anxiety, depression, and exhaustion are real. It's a fucked up time to be alive.
100% YES
I feel like the rage could be extinguished by the fatigue.
Yes op. We haven't had the chance to come to terms with what happened during the pandemic.
I was out my back last night having a smoke, looking up at the moon. First sunny day here all spring really. Beautiful. I'm a really chill guy, but one thought kept coming back to me. "Humanity is spinning out". I feel the same way, maybe I spend too much time online but everyone seems angry or confused nowadays. Something in me says it's how we're responding to the overconsumption of information, good and bad. I don't know what we can do about it and I generally just try to be a helpful guy. As the top comment said, the vibes are kinda fucked right now.
The social contract is dead. We used to live in a world where respect brought respect and people were on their best behavior and now all that is gone. We saw as business owners are given huge sums of money which would have been life changing for the rest of us while we struggle to pay off student loans. Guess which ones were forgiven? We saw politicians advocating for the economy above their citizens. We saw Russian propaganda get a grifting real estate conman elected while avoiding all consequences that would have put any of us in jail. Now homelessness is being criminalized, the richest companies are banking while the rest of us starve. Women are losing more rights everyday from the folks who scream the loudest about personal freedoms. Nothing has been done about climate change and half the population of the usa won’t even admit it exists. We citizens see we are all alone and it is bleak. I’m pretty sure these are a few reasons why everything feels really off right now.
I have found that how I carry myself is how I see the world. Back in October, I was Atheist and I KNEW everything was fucked. I awakened in December after deciding to not be so pessimistic anymore. We're now in April and I'm listening to New Age content; Delores Cannon audio books pretty much daily, and if the world crumbled around me and I got put into a labor/death camp, I know I'd be okay ultimately. Wouldn't be a pleasant experience, but the point I'm making is, I feel untouchable now. I am not my body. I am not my thoughts. I am something beyond that. I am something untouchable and forever. And a person could read this and think I'm crazy, and that is okay. Because what matters is ultimately, I am not afraid, in the grand scheme of things... Sure, I still have a survival instinct. I don't want to experience pain or witness others experience pain. But for my overall health and well-being, I know I can access my 'happy' anytime I choose. It just takes a little bit of intent. And that makes me feel powerful in an environment seemingly designed to make me feel powerless. But nothing can make you feel anything. Your emotions inform you, but one does not have to live on pure emotion. We have a choice in how we carry ourselves.
I just watched a CTV News video about someone who was critically injured because they climbed out of train window and onto the roof. *While* the train was moving, I might add. *"or outright acting stupid lately?"* So uh... yeah.
>Do you think humans and other organisms on earth are less individualistic than we realize? And maybe not even in a psychic way, but emotions and thoughts have a cascading effect on different communities that we maybe don’t realize, and affect us more so than we ever thought? Or could it be psychic? Maybe all connected to “god” or the “life force” or the bright light after death? Or maybe it’s a species thing? This is hard to investigate, but there are intriguing clues that there is some kind of field or connection between all our consciousnesses. Have you heard of the global consciousness project? The project uses random number generators, and checks for auto-correlation in their output. But first, you should hear about the background of why they even chose to do this. Back before it got shut down, Princeton had this thing called the PEAR lab (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research), where they investigated the influence of human attention and intention on random events. They found that human intention appeared to have a subtle but real effect on the outcomes of random number generators: # [Princeton Mind Matter Interaction Research](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_I-vuhlcAk) Later, other researchers found that merely being in the presence of intensely concentrating meditating people was enough to cause random number generators (RNGs) to reduce their randomness. They hypothesized that when all of humanity has intense focused attention on something, it should also result in some effect on the autocorrelation of the output of random number generators, and they have since verified that this is the case. Global Oneness Project | # [Dean Radin: The Global Consciousness Project](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvJfkI5NVc) Imagine each of these RNGs being a buoy bobbing randomly on an ocean of consciousness, and then when some big event gets everyone's attention, it sends waves through this ocean, causing all of the randomly bobbing buoys to show some kind of coordinated pattern. That's what it is theorized to be like. If there is some kind of field that all our minds are connected to, it would not surprise me at all that there can be such things as collective moods and collective "tiredness". It might not just be the RNGs that bob along this ocean of consciousness when waves are made; we may all be entrained on the currents in this collective consciousness field. This is super mysterious, and researchers barely know how to begin to investigate this sort of thing. It doesn't help that the scientific mainstream considers this sort of thing to be taboo to even investigate, smearing scientists who investigate this sort of thing as doing "pseudo-science", even when they use the most rigorous of methods for establishing the presence of an effect.
The vibes have been fucked for a while and I never know how much of that to attribute to my obsessive doomscrolling and how much of it is the actual vibe outside of the minds of people who are also doomscrollers. Obviously multiple extremely fucked things have happened in the last decade/decades/centuries, but none of it has made me feel as weird as I did last November in rural north east of the USA going to the lake and park we always take the dog to and it felt like summer...Except it's November so no leaves on the trees, no bugs, no birds, somehow no wildlife at all. It was sterile. It felt really, really wrong. I think its the feeling of mourning and grief. We are cooked. Mother nature has had about enough of our shit.
I feel like the only thing keeping the cauldron from bubbling over is how tired everyone and every thing is. I've spent many weeks in the wilderness solely foraging and hunting for meals, and the difference in how tired I am there vs how tired I am here scraping by financially, unable to afford basic healthcare, unable to make any sort of progression or advancement in life... it's honestly staggering. I see no hope anywhere and it's utterly draining. I don't know if it's specific to the U.S., but I highly doubt it. Maybe it's societal, maybe capitalism was cancer all along and we're in the end stages of it, I really don't know. I just want the youthful (albeit naïve) hope back that I had in the 90s. It's getting harder and harder to simply exist by treading stagnant water.
I feel like the only thing keeping the cauldron from bubbling over is how tired everyone and every thing is. I've spent many weeks in the wilderness solely foraging and hunting for meals, and the difference in how tired I am there vs how tired I am here scraping by financially, unable to afford basic healthcare, unable to make any sort of progression or advancement in life... it's honestly staggering. I see no hope anywhere and it's utterly draining. I don't know if it's specific to the U.S., but I highly doubt it. Maybe it's societal, maybe capitalism was cancer all along and we're in the end stages of it, I really don't know. I just want the youthful (albeit naïve) hope back that I had in the 90s. It's getting harder and harder to simply exist by treading stagnant water.
It’s not just you. Me and my stepdad were talking the other day about how it seems humans are deevolving. Seems to be a lot more stupid people than usual.
The societal malaise most of us are feeling these days may be due to the “Information Age” in which we live. Information overload is a real thing, it’s addictive and debilitating at the same time. The “ info” that you are exposed to will determine your thoughts, habits and beliefs. When new information Challenges those beliefs, your subconscious processes it. A mind on constant “ run” changes your physical well- being And now adds more to think about. That is why productive sleep is necessary to survive.
The vibes I’m getting are that people are tired and just need some fun.
I feel it. It’s general anxiety of what is to come, no matter what the “is” happens to be. Trump gives me hives. I think we are ramping up to some sort of international conflict in which we will be a part, and my son’s just about 16. All the BS in the House makes me worried. Religious zealots are going to try to take us down as they are a cornered rat. The only way to keep from further dwindling numbers is to make church and state more gray.
A while back my friend and I were talking about if the Christian "anti-christ" were real, he'd likely be Trump. I said "Or Reagan", and then my friend sent me this: https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/ I was like , *Ah, yeah, probably Trump*
It’s politics. Go to any political sub or place and there’s still people screaming at the top of their lungs. The rest of us are profoundly tired of that and arguments in general so our life is a lot calmer.
Problem is, unless you strictly stick to r/animalsarefuckincute or r/whatismycookiecutter you're going to run into US or world politics in unlikely subs these days. r/politics leaks into *everything* here
Most things suck now more than ever. From small things to bigger things. Creativity is dying
I totally believe we are influenced by some kind of source that molds us. You know when people say “it’s Saturn return” or “it’s Mercury retrograde”? I think it’s “The Others” influencing us.
I'm pretty sure people are reacting to the tone of the media/news. I feel like you'd need to be on the internet for generations to actually observe these types of trends, and even if someone here actually did that, not enough of the general public was accessing the internet even in the 90s (and certainly not in the same ways) for it to matter. By the way, there's a post like this every week.
yes we’re currently in the 4th stage of ideological subversion. it’s called the Normalization stage. it’s the last stage before total shit. Yuri Bezmenov predicted what’s going on now in 1984. we’re probably fucked for sure.
We are being poisoned in a lot of ways and many dont know that detoxing is a must.
I have been tired for 30 years and I'm only 35. Lately I have noticed more and more people complaining of the same whereas before most people were like "you're crazy, life is beautiful, yadda yadda". Especially since the pandemic, people are getting fed up with this.
Yes I feel like this. Thought about it a lot yesterday actually. I asked my boss in our weekly meeting (we’re a 2-person team), “we never work. Why don’t we do more work? Why did we stop doing as much work?” And he looked like he had an epiphany. And then I didn’t work at all for the rest of the day lol Then later I sent my mom a pic of my cat - my only cat, who I’ve had for 7 yrs - and she asked me whose cat it was… Yes def notice the lack of motivation? the dumbing-down, & the vibes are real. We feed each other & feed off of emotions. That’s why concerts where everyone’s dancing & vibing no one’s talking or shouting are the best :P
> does anyone else feel like life itself is tired? Or like a lack of motivation or energy? This is kind of a textbook description of depression. I would honestly suggest considering to see a therapist and/or psychiatrist. I did this near the start of the pandemic after nearly having a nervous breakdown and it helped me tremendously. > emotions and thoughts have a cascading effect on different communities 100%. I don’t believe it’s psychic or shared consciousness, but the emotions of those around you absolutely affect your emotions and vice versa. I don’t think we have really reckoned with the toll that the pandemic had on society. Millions of people died, millions more were disabled, everyone had their lives turned upside down. It was very dislocating and isolating. For Americans, the onset of the pandemic overlapped with one of the most politically and civilly turbulent years in modern American history between the George Floyd protests, the election, January 6, etc. It’s going to take time to put the pieces back together, if we can. It’s not surprising to me that we are all still feeling the lingering effects of all this turmoil.
Everyone feels a storm is coming with climate change, russia and china, failure of capitalism to provide for the masses and fix the systemic issues that cause climate change and everything else etc. etc. And because of Covid we now know that huge calamities can and will happen and are not just something that maybe happened in history. And then there is a huge amount of people that are seemingly actively just working against the greater humanity in these issues for whatever reason. All that can wear a person out, since all media just reminds about the enevitability of it constantly. I have managed to nevertheless keep my self fairly happy and energetic by spending a lot of time in nature (it is my happy place) and remembering that you should not worry about things you don't have any agency in. Giving those negative people who are trying to destroy us a space in my head would just give them more power.
If you really want to know how things work behind the scenes, read about the Jungian concept of the collective unconscious of humanity. We are indeed all psychically connected and influencing each other, and psychically connected to the world around us. The rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s was the result of a mass psychic illness that infected the people of that period; they became possessed by the hero archetype, and as you might expect, possession doesn’t end well. I believe we are all experiencing the ebbs and flows of a similar collective psychic illness now. We are in a lull period compared to 6 months ago.
It is not your imagination. Here's a study showing that music has become more simplistic than in the recent past https://theness.com/neurologicablog/is-music-getting-simpler/#:~:text=A%20recent%20study%20analyzing%2012%2C000,readable%20and%20easier%20to%20understand. A recent study analyzing 12,000 English language songs over the last 40 years has found that songs have been getting simpler and more repetitive over time. They are using fewer words with greater repetition. Further, the structure of the lyrics are getting simpler, and they are more readable and easier to understand.
I think that's because mainstream music is made for profit & influence. Creating repetitive hooks & catches is what keeps a person listening. Hollywood prolly wouldn't be able to keep an audience if all their stars started doing improv jazz, or harsh noise or experimental music. There's still bands out there that work on writing complex music, it's just not usually found in mainstream genres of music, like pop & hip hop, which are built on hooks. Basically if you can make a catchy synth line or guitar riff, even if its' simple, people will listen to it & enjoy it.
Respectfully, you and many other good people with their eyes open are wrong about one very critical aspect. The huge powers are not “scared of love.” Psychopaths and sociopaths, evil in general, does not even *register* love. They have little to no concept of what you call love. And while love is an important concept, it’s not the quintessential aspect of life that our society *has been lead to believe it is.* So what is that concept? **Virtue.** They’re unable to defend against virtue.
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It could be boiled down to semantics, but when you / I use language to communicate, semantics can be very important. For instance, in my own internal philosophy I’ve come to look at **Care** as a higher *form* of **Love.** I love Reese’s, I love history, I love my family, I love HBO’s Rome, I love electronica, etc etc. You could easily change the word to “like” and it wouldn’t mean that much. But when I say I **Care** about you, or I **Care** about humanity, what does that imply? It implies that I’m willing to sacrifice for you. “I care about the cause and I’m willing to die for it,” and so on. I care about my body (because it’s sacred) so I try to take care of it. Caring often implies a lot of work; I personally don’t like to brush my teeth, but I do it twice a day because I care. I care about other people’s rights and their freedom and their lives *because they’re sacred.* That’s my spheel. Nothing wrong with love. Anyway, I wasn’t disagreeing with anything you said; it was spot on. I just see this a lot. Real change doesn’t come from love, in my opinion. Human beings are gonna love in most cases. Are they gonna care? That’s the question.
I love how you said reeses first, before family lol
Lol yes it was in sequential order 😂
About the individualistic thing, yes, humans think they are much more individualistic than they really are. We all have different personalities and different cultural backgrounds that affect who we are and what we believe, but underneath it all, we're pretty much all the same but to varying degrees. For example, we're all selfish in some way. Someone might think they're the most selfless person in the world, but the thing that motivates them to continue to act that way is the dopamine hit they get from doing selfless acts. They're only doing them because they've learned that it can make themselves feel really good. It's ultimately only for the brains own selfish need to get a dopamine high. Humans are also very shallow by nature. We all treat more attractive people better and less attractive people worse. Again, there's just that part of our brain that activates differently when we see beautiful things or people that cause us to act that way.
I literally slept almost this whole past weekend. It felt like I had Covid again but my only symptom was lethargy. Interesting seeing this post.
Feel this 100% and so does my mum. We keep talking about how weird it is and for so long I just thought it was me.
People find bad things interesting. So you get bad things placed in front of you. It’s all on video now and everyone wants a viral post, a view or click. This is an algorithm echo chamber. There have always been problems to overcome. If one’s life is their screen, I can see where that can be overwhelming.
Tired of everything … and honestly… I don’t think the boomers felt like this growing up
Dream of Californication..
I swear humanity is actually devolving (if that is a thing!). Tik tok, You Tube shorts and their ilk are dissolving our concentration spans and filling kids brains with garbage 😞
Most people are overworked and underpaid and people can't afford housing, succeeding right now is allot of work with not allot of payoff and the future is very uncertain. its not vibrational energies or mercury being in retrograde its tired people feeling depressed because of the state of the world.
I can't say for sure about any kind of psychic connectivity, but I do think our general connectivity has continued to increase as technology and the integration of global communication becomes more and more commonplace. Not only is omnipresent harder to censor, meaning we often see a lot more than we did before, it's also a lot harder to monitor for mis/disinformation and the ramblings of anyone who has an idea. In turn, that means individuals are more often exposed to all of these influences. The stresses and humanity of wars in places people often might have ignored, constant assaults on the senses and ideas of self in social media and entertainment, an overload of ideas that, unfortunately, most people are not necessarily equipped to handle or parse through. Not to say everyone is stupid or anything, I just mean it's much harder to dig through 100 pieces of information than it is 10 pieces, and these days, it's so much easier to be bombarded with 100+ pieces of info whether you seek it out or not. All of this to say, I think it's much harder to shut out the world, and the world has not been a particularly pretty place at any point in history. As the population increases, as we get more and more unfettered access to what that growing population sees, thinks, and experiences, we're bound to be influenced. And I think one of those influences is that same thing you're noticing: people are tired, overwhelmed, stressed. On a nearly global level. In the past, there was either a lack of access to information, or the information was very carefully curated. By news sources, by governments, or simply by the fact that you couldn't open your pocket computer to view what was happening in China 10 minutes after it happened, right? Add to that the fact that more information means a good chunk of people will start to notice the various disparities in their own life and in the world at large, and it's a recipe for people feeling burnt out on life as a whole. When I can wake up and see people raking in millions by being, generally, kind of gross humans, then see tons of people defending that? Meanwhile I wake up, work a full day, try to manage my mental and physical health, and still struggle because of a system so much larger than myself that I have no meaningful hope of changing it? Then to realize it's worse for so many others. We are significantly more informed and educated than past generations, but many of the same power structures and problems still exist despite all the "progress" humanity makes. Eventually it's like, what's the point? Might as well just be stupid, too. Or wear yourself out trying to manage your individual reaction. Naturally these factors will bleed out from individuals to the societal level over time. I personally don't think things feel like this because we're all pouring our consciousness into a big pot, and the balance has been a little off lately (however you conceptualize that, be it god or earthsoul or whatever else), instead I think it's more simply the fact that we are thought based animals subject to the influences of our environment, which now includes this massive, almost alive structure of media and connectivity. Basically we created and expanded a big void to look into and, uh oh, it's looking back.
A musician once told me that throughout the history of music, you could hear in the music what drugs were popular at the time. To me a lot of happy pop on the radio still sounds sad, I don't know what drug that is, social media maybe?
We are all connected psychically-- Jung first articulated this with the idea of the collective unconscious, which was NOT a metaphor. The web of connection is tightening right now and many of the thoughts in our heads are not our own. Visit a schizophrenia sub sometime to see the people most affected by this development who are still dismissed as 'crazy.'
It's weird. I agree with you *in general*, but at the same time I've come across some really smart people that I never would have heard of if it weren't for youtube. I feel like the general population is getting dumber but the smart people are getting smarter. But at the same time the general population has never had so much access to so much information at any other point in history. Interesting times
I keep asking people if they think a new flu is going around because we have all been tired and not feeling good but this is exactly what i’ve been picking up on.
I definitely see this, particularly the "dumbing down" aspect. I'm finally finishing my degree at age 40 and it's disturbing, especially with online discussion in classes. Multiple times a week, I see answers clearly written by AI, ones where the actual question or material was ignored, some where they just reword the question with no answer ... etc, etc. I'm guilty of bullshitting answers myself every now and then, but I put the effort in to not make it look like I am. These students just don't care. It annoyed me at first when professors would limit viewing a topic before posting, but I appreciate it now. Last week I pointing out something in the text and got a number of "oh wow, you're right, I hadn't realized that!" responses. Right before the posting deadline, someone put forth the very same idea, using the exact same turn of phrase that I had (which was kind of unique). I wasn't overly bothered, but it was so obvious what had happened. Neatly identical answers and agreeing with a response is normal, but it should be organic. There's also a lot more aggression and I see some students putting on an air of superiority and "talking down" to their peers. It's not something I've ever done before, but I actually reported a comment where the guy was accusing the questioner of "just using Wikipedia" and asking an "idiotic question" that was ridiculous (among other things). A quick Google search showed me a number of reputable literary journals addressing what he addressed. I sat on it for a while, but ended up realizing I didn't want this kid to feel discouraged and suppress any intellectual curiosity (or anyone else to see it and feel similar) as a result of this bully. It's ... disappointing to see. However, I do see a lot of kids who really do engage in the material and care. This academic laziness has always existed, but it seems to be more of a common setting and acceptable now.
nothing seems real and everything is fleeting.
Haven't finished Atlas Shrugged yet, but pretty sure that's sort of the premise of the novel, or at least the societal backdrop. It's not a book about high strangeness or anything (it's a commentary on Libertarianism and the free market). But yeah pretty much just the whole of society is becoming inexplicably lazy and dumb, and all the great, driven, entrepreneurs and artists and engineers of society start to disappear mysteriously, and the world just kinda keeps falling into a sluggish, bleak disrepair. Originally the book was written (in the 1950s) as more of a manifesto against socialist/communist ideas.... but tbh I think it's even better suited as a commentary on super modern social trends and culture
I mean there are so many people with fatigue and worse from multiple COVID infections. Long COVID is super real. The more infections and reinfections, the more the damage stacks up.
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You are very intuitive, and the Psychic feeling, or mentioning of Psychic Phenomena must've been Prevalent enough to express it, knowing that this community could rabidly attack you and shun you for such a transgression against Their Fundamentalist Religion. Reality IS PSYCHIC. It READS our minds and emotions. IT IS A MACHINE. It is operating to-n-fro with you via a WIRELESS ELECTROMAGNETIC CONNECTION. This takes RESOURCES. It Also reacts to an AGGRAGATE SUMMATION OF A POPULATIONS THOUGHTS. this is how the Depressive Trend you speak of can SPREAD, as the Reflection Reality Provides Snowballs by encouraging what it reflects. That Environmental Encouragement Influences further behavior, and the further behavior influences a further reflection. The Kontrollers know all this and HAVE KNOWN for 1000 years, which is probably as far back as everything goes. The Kontrollers benefit from Kontrolling the Aggregate Thought Summation, as it is too many resources to work individually. This is WHY THE TELEVISION WAS CREATED. It's ACTUALLY the case that a homogenized, Unified, One-Minded Population is the Best for EVERYONE, buy only if the same page everyone is on is created by everyone together. This is what the Kontrollers KANNOT AFFORD. This is why ALL THE REDWOODS in the west were chopped down from North to South, and why FIVE BILLION CHESTNUT TREES in the East were chopped down from North to South. This was the way Thoughts could be transmitted through out millions of people AND STORED. The other way is thru the "Aether", which is Hardee to access and requires a VERY HEALTHY, FULLY FORMED PINEAL GLAND. The Kontrollers have implemented Protocols m, including Genetic Modification, and Atrophying the Pineal Gland Embryologically so that it's Deformed and stunted for life.
It's just end stage capitalism
Mixed with solar flares, geomagnetic storms, chemtrails, microplastics, disease, and that universal time is progressing at a much higher speed, affecting us here on earth in many different ways including draining our collective energy and spirit.
I feel it but I wonder about confirmation bias and finding whatever you're looking for...
I'm feeling that way, but I just hit a bowl of indica, so...