sortakasten
sorta lika zettlekasten.
that's the vibe sublime gives me anyway, a public zettlekasten.
pick a related card, add your note, keep it moving.
by owl · updated 3mo ago
sortakasten
Those responsible for the worst treatment of the world and its human occupants continue to do so because we don’t make things hard enough for them: a little hardship and directed hostility toward the rich is long, long overdue. At the same time, though, we know very well why such a mass uprising and tidal shift remains difficult. Those who most fee
... See morefrom Combined and Uneven Apocalypse by Evan Calder Williams
owl added 3mo ago
the darker implication of the malaise is the reality that it is all by design. a few hundred years ago certain powers aligned against the people. overloading from birth to the point that it is a luxury, a privilege, to even consider the state of the world. in thinking about all of this i can't help but drown in a kind of survivor's guilt mixed with impostor syndrome— i can(t help but) think about these things when, outside my window, there's someone that's negotiating with themselves on whether to feed themselves now or pay bill later. and somewhere, someone even more educated and in an even more privileged position considers the same for me.
but at some point up that ladder i want to hope someone with some weight will think about the rest of us all the way down and throw a wrench in the system that stacked us in a vertical maze to begin with.
- It is an old compulsion to try to impose a narrative on our lives, especially when looking for meaning in our existence. But life does have a natural progression, a natural flow that Millennials ought to have simply participated in, and many feel it’s not flowing as it should.
Many felt there were certain things that should have fallen into place by... See morefrom ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy by Bride Jabour
owl added 3mo ago
amongst the reasons i've theorised, the ubiquity of media (specifically, nostalgia-driven and self-referential media), where no one seems to age or "mature”(whatever that means). the other side of the theory involves, of course, capitalism. the oppressive conditions that might lead us to turn inward, seek distraction and perform a "simpler” time perpetually— to willingly blind ourselves to the crippling realization that we grew into a world much more hostile than any previous generation had to face. i miss vine, btw. dab and all that.
Faced with a name like the Terrible Twenties, many people might point out that humans today are in some ways far better off than they’ve ever been: life expectancies are up, on the whole, compared with a century ago (though they dipped during the pandemic); extreme poverty has sharply declined. It seems possible, though, that both interpretations a
... See morefrom The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era by Kyle Chayka
owl added 3mo ago
it doesnt help that the interconnected nature of society is constantly serving reminders of the tragic, the inequities and the many things happening to us that remain beyond our control. the quality of life baseline may be higher today, but what a life of quality is remains as far from our collective grasp as ever.
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