I'm getting increasingly angry and depressed for our children's future.

[WhenWillTheShitEnd]

To think that my hard working son, who gets minimum wage is now strugglying to make end meet because of an egotistical, corrupt, millionaire/billionaire pervert is giving me sleepless nights. To think that the whole world is being held to ransom by men like Trump and Putin is making me so depressed and angry that its affecting my every day life. I feel so utterly helpless. We are all recycling, being told not to use our woodburners etc, while the like of the US and Russia are pumping colossal amount of CO2 into the atmosphere with their bombs. I'm so FUCKING ANGRY.

Because no-one replied in three whole, whopping minutes?!

You sound very highly stung. My advice is to get off the news. There are plenty of things in this world that make me angry, but unless your anger leads you to taking action, it's pointless. There will always be things going on in the background you can't control. To let that affect your happiness and wellbeing is just madness.

Every generation has their problems. Trump is an arse but the way I see it we also have a lotofbe grateful for. My youngest child(of 4) is finishing uni this year, so all of my kids will be out in the world working and making the best of what they are able to. We all have a strong bond and enjoy each other's company and support

I have a new grandson who will be brought up in a loving family, have great role models and hopefully thrive. To me it's all about family, the rest is mostly out of our control, so wasted energy being angry.

I completely share your sentiments.

Sometimes you have to stop looking at the bigger picture and enjoy and appreicate what's in front of you.

The thing is that it's "not normal" not to have to work for reward to pay for the "nice" things in life like a comfortable home, hobbies, warmth, healthcare, etc. Go right back to the start of humanity and the vast majority have worked in return for a roof over their heads, food, comfort, etc. We're now in a society where ever more people aren't working yet still expect a quality of life. It just doesn't add up. The ever reducing proportion of workers are rightly getting more and more fed up with having no spare time, no spare cash, etc., whilst paying ever increasing taxes and suffering ever worsening public services, and it's no wonder they're increasingly getting annoyed about it all, with many planning to emigrate.

Go right back to the start of humanity and the vast majority have worked in return for a roof over their heads, food, comfort, etc.

Actually go back to the start of humanity and most work has been done by slaves ...

I very much doubt that people in ancient history just wandered around taking land that they fancied without effort. Land always has a claim by someone, unless it's very inhospitable. Even chimpanzees have territory that they will fight viciously to defend.

Yes in the past many people have migrated, taking land, but they had to fight for it and kill or subdue those who were already occupying that land.

Without the rule of law, how many of us could defend our land against intruders?

I think part of the issues with people's dissatisfaction with today's world is an overly rosy view of the past. People in the past lived very hard lives.

We do not improve our situations by withdrawing from society and bemoaning our fate. If we are unhappy with our politics and the way things are going, we need to get involved. Hold our politicians to account if we feel they are corrupt. None of this "they are all the same, so I'm not going to bother". Hold them to account, demand standards of behaviour, they are public servants. If they grovel to the corrupt rich, vote them out. If political parties don't espouse the views you think are correct, get involved, change from within.

I read a book called Goliath's Curse recently. It says that ancient hunter-gatherer societies were indeed very peaceful and the archeology shows this, e.g. plenty of tools but few weapons and bones showing marks of violence are rare. The hypothesis is that everyone had enough and there was no reason to fight. If the chief of one group was a pain, people just peeled off and went somewhere else. Look at Maōri in NZ for example. Famously warlike and arguably the toughest soldiers in WW2. But in fact the archeology shows they only got that way centuries after they arrived in NZ, their population had grown and resources were depleted.

I know it's a tangent, but it's interesting, and there is a point- egalitarian societies are more stable and peaceful by and large. It offends our instincts for Elon Musk to be so rich while people less than a mile away from his house are homeless.

I too am grateful to live in this time and this place.🙏

I know how fortunate I am to live close to family and raise my children in a stable home in relative peace, with equality and human rights.😊

Trump is a murderous, wrecking cunt, not an arse. I wish he was just an arse.😒

Definitely not you. Check out Ana Boulter. Musings from the kitchen sink and other places, questioning the frankly bonkers decisions our Government makes and saying it how it is. Common Sense Meets Politics
https://m.youtube.com/@anaboulterTV?ra=m