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to just feel utter despair sometimes about the state of things for our kids?

52 replies

toolioo · 05/07/2026 06:27

Incoming rant but I am feeling fed up that we are constantly inundated with media debates about social media, Roblox, harmful content, the manosphere, vaping, gaming addiction,, record levelsof obesity etc, and if you really dig into it, the list is so overwhelmingly long. While it's absolutely right that we engage with these issues, does anyone else just sit back and think how the fuck did we get here? We had the ultimate opportunity to harness our own creations and elevate humanity, but we've compromised it so bloody badly that it feels like a point of no return. How bleak is the future looking? I feel like we are being laughed at by the people in power (and I'm referring to the people profiting off of our experimentation, not our absolutely useless govt). It genuinely makes me question the ethics of bringing another child into this world right now. How on earth did we get here

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Greenfinch7 · 05/07/2026 06:36

Environmental destruction is uniquely awful. That isthe first thing on my list

DeftGoldHedgehog · 05/07/2026 06:30

I was just watching a programme set in 1990 and all the football hooliganism and violence and rioting with poll tax being the catalyst. There is always stuff, it's not uniquely awful now.