Is it just me, or is it all starting to feel a bit Armageddony?

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Climate change protests in Lewisham, Trump getting excited about an Iranian tanker, Boris Johnson to be prime minister, unusual levels of rain, landslide with commuters trapped for 8 hours, brexit, shutting down parliament touted as a feasible way forward. Am I alone in feeling that the quiet shared sense of impending doom seems to have ratcheted up a notch?

It is all utter shit on the political leadership front. But the protest in Lewisham comprised about 20 people if that’s any consolation.

It's just you. Live your life and don't dwell on things over which you have no control.

It's definitely more Doomy.

This is what happens when a govt talks about literally NOTHING else for more than 3 years. Stalemate, division, total paralysis.

It's utter shit. And I can only encourage myself to focus on the good - which frankly feels as if it's dwindling

I walked in to a branch of Barclays yesterday and it was so automated it felt like being in an episode of black mirror.

Absolutely horrible feeling. It will be normal to our kids but as a mid 30's person it felt like some dystopian movie scene. And it felt grim. The lack of human contact and the reduction of it that is occuring on a daily basis is really concerning.

I guess straddling the line between experiencing the start of the digital era and the majority of the analogue era everything just seems so extreme.

Now with politics being a shitshow, everything swinging to extremes, weather, economies, human rights, racism, homophobia, trans rights etc ....

It's just mind blowing shit when you read it on paper. But because it's happening as a drip drip drip we ignore it, until we can't, and then we're suddenly fucked.

It’s all a bit Years and Years...

I like the lack of human contact tbh .

I think it’s your perspective. The tories have been ruining the country for almost a decade now so Boris is just the next step. It’s already pretty fucked thanks to Brexit, Boris can’t really do much more damage. Trump is a twat but he’ll be out next year. It always rains in the UK.

Agree OP

Boris Johnson about to become PM

Endless rain

Grim grim grim

I've often wondered if 'God' is hammering us with punishment after punishment, but our population is so huge we just barely notice. Wildfires, earthquakes and storms that would have absolutely and completely destroyed a bronze age city-state are just one more distant tragedy in the news.

Finn I’m finding Years and Years low key terrifying for that exact reason.

"It’s all a bit Years and Years..."

Yes.

Have you been watching this? Amplifies the doom.

Yup .

Nah, are you too young for 911, the tsunami, Iraq war, New Orleans; same armageggony feeling.

I agree, OP...I was thinking the same thing last night when reading the newspaper! Nothing good, nothing positive, just pages and pages of discontent. I just keep living my life, but I can't help but feel a little worried for the future.

Was ever thus and will always be - every decade has its own sense of armageddony feeling - its just the variables change

Also remember, good news doesnt sell papers or increase viewers - so its always bad things that are reported ad nauseum. And with more outlets for bad news, it increases.

Same principle of reviews - people are more likely to leave a bad review than a good one

It felt like this during the 70s and some of the 80s with the cold war and endless strikes. It was grey and miserable with little to look forward to. Life wasn't as complicated though and there wasn't the complexity of behaviour that people seem to have now with their anger, neuroses and taking offence at everything. People kick off at anything now and it feels threatening.

I am seriously concerned about the calibre of the people in parliament though. If we found ourselves facing a serious threat, we'd be fucked. They seem so vacuous and narcissistic and lacking in intelligence and the ability to see that the decisions they make are a matter of life and death for many ordinary people. It's just a game to them. People like that shouldn't be running the country.

{I am seriously concerned about the calibre of the people in parliament though. If we found ourselves facing a serious threat, we'd be fucked.}

I know this isn't a Brexit thread but if the UK leaves the EU on 31 October, whoever is in government has to renegotiate about 40 years worth of treaties with the EU AND commence new ones with whoever will listen, in a matter of weeks.
The 'serious threat' starts in late October.

I feel like I’ve crossed into an alternative universe! Boris Johnson fit to be PM?! Really??!!

I also lived through the 70's and 80's and I think this feels as bad as it's been.

So many people I see are so angry, depressed, anxious, and most of all numb.

The numbness is blocking people from feeling (totally understandably) all the shit.

It’s all a bit Years and Years...

Totally agree with this!

It’s interesting. In the 50s we had Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, Death of Grass etc - all picking up on the general unease from Cold War, atomic bomb threat, silent spring etc. I see Years and Years in this same vein - also Avengers escapism etc.

I love Years and Years. Such great writing.

The thought of that scruffy haired, thick as shit buffoon being PM fills me with absolute despair. We are all fucked.

My dad's feeling doomy and he's old enough to remember the end of WWII and the Cuban missile crisis. That phone call was a bit of a yikes moment on my part.

I think this is much worse than the 70s (which I lived through). Maybe it is closer to the 50s (which I didn’t!) with the fear of atomic annihilation.

I think maybe it's not as bad here in Ireland because of brexit. I know we will be badly affected economically too, but the general zeitgeist is much more positive with the referendum on gay marriage, lots of it companies locating here etc; it's forward rather than backward looking.