Like, I wake up and see my flowers. Some bees. It’s a nice sunrise. I open the news and it’s just one big collapse of the west. Fascism is rapidly coming up. I’m in the middle of it but I still need to go to work to keep the make believe that is our society going. War might be imminent. Whether that’s with Russia or the US.
And yet here we are, collectively pretending everything is fine.
My boomer parents are so worried about me investing in weird and risky stocks, like my retirement matters when the entire financial system is going to be ash in less than a decade. "I better max my 401k so that I can watch is not exist soon. "