You're not imagining things, the world is not just "getting weird" but division is sown our way from a multitude of places for their own profits and agendas.

Yet, we must be silenced. The people can not be allowed to speak. Even as dystopia gives the diseased members of the species ever more powerful and abstract tools to divide us, they still fear us talking.

That's because what you're doing is literally all it takes to begin eroding the artificial pen walls. We're made to communicate and tell each other stories, that's deeply ingrained.

What we're losing slowly and globally is our sense of cohesion. Neighbor to neighborhood, resident to city, citizen to country, human to human.

All of our innate mental structures that trend towards "making it all work, no matter who is helped because it helps me too" are constantly being twisted and attacked. But we are what we are, so keep fighting the good fight.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the encouragement and reassurance ... I have a lot of dark ideas of the future of this world and a lot of anger, resentment and disappointment at humanity ... but I do hold out hope, especially towards any human being near me.

I will keep fighting ... I will keep holding on to connecting to my fellow man and woman ... but at the same time I do remain pessimistic and disappointed. I like people ... but I have a different view of society as a whole.