Basically I think this thing is going to be rampant for the next decade.
I think i was asking a few weeks back somewhere in this thread about what the breaking point would be. because if this thing is around for a decade, it’s basically going to slowly drive us all insane. so... what happens then? are we just being softly set up to be the lost generations that wade through the shit for a decade or more? slowly dividing up into dead-eyed drones getting their fifteenth booster, and wild-eyed Qanoners boiling with rage and rejection? I just want to be drunk again at a sweaty noisy gig in a basement somewhere, and that seems like it’s a thing that is just sliding away over the horizon, again and again, and it’s a real bummer. and I’ve already had twenty-five years of doing that! years of going out, having fun, doing stuff, being stupid — I can only imagine what it must be like to be nineteen years old and just ready to start figuring out who you are, just ready to start having fun and making a life for yourself, making some culture happen, grabbing a hold of the world. but the future is cancelled, the fun is cancelled, the chance to flourish is cancelled. it’s shit.