let's chat about existentialism m8s
I've sort of lost a clear focus on what the fuck I even wanna do or why to be honest. I don't want to drag myself into pessimism, but I feel like shit's really fucked and all of it just alienates me extremely in the process. I've talked about my social ineptness before and I don't wanna get into it too much, but it's still such a pressing thing that just keeps bouncing back and it's like this endless process of finding some sort of escapism to keep myself rolling: Getting intensely dedicated to a game, binge watching things all day, etc. Inevitably I start to pick up on what I'm doing, have one of my edgy depressed periods, and it repeats.
But seriously, I'm a lonely motherfucker and I can tell it really messes with me socially. It's just, I don't know how to really put it into words, but it's like a proper conversation never really happens and all I do is just push forward a certain personality to people that feels really superficial at times. I feel like all I do is just pretend to be more in my place then I am. And seriously, two years at this school and I still don't click with anyone. I just want some sort of open-ended escape from it, someone I can genuinely state my thoughts to and feel on the same level with, and not people who just give me attention out of pity - which I'm sure is intended well by all means, but if that's the response to my issue then I don't think you really get how it really is. I'm fucking tired of this shit endlessly being ridden off as "teenage angst" or "well if you tried harder then [ ]!", it's something that goes far beyond just bad friendship making skills.
But to throw things into a whole different topic, I'm just as dissatisfied with broader topics as well. The political system feels completely dead and unstable to me, and I fail to see why this isn't causing more anxiety to people. I don't know if anyone has been keeping up with the US presidential elections, but it's the most depressing shit to me. The corporate influences are getting aggressive and it's just becoming too pressing:
>Sanders gains notable popularity through debates, yet it's been recently pointed out that the lack of debates was decided by an open Clinton supporter, on a similar note the lack of coverage doesn't add up at all with Sanders' support
>The republican candidates + Clinton are in no way representing democracy but quite literally bought: Rubio actually admitted that lobbyists are paying him to stand up there and push the agenda of corporations
>Climate change is historically dangerous and the last republican debate didn't even mention it
>Even criticism against corporations has to be taken with a grain of salt because, for example, Clinton has permission to say those things as the corporations know they have her backing anyway and it's all bullshit
>Instead of the focus going towards what the wealthy are actually doing, massive fear-mongering about terrorism and immigrants is causing people to instead just fight among themselves and create the same sort of self-destruction that social justice is doing right now
>Meanwhile the TPP is still going, net neutrality is still under a threat, literal ideas of permitting censorship and limited freedom of speech being pushed
It makes me feel incredibly helpless, because it's unstoppable. Sanders' win is unlikely, and if Clinton or Trump makes it in it's another fear years of free tickets for the corps. Climate change needs to be addressed properly, and the people responsible for it need to be held accountable for their bullshit. We can't have
presidents funded by banks and gas stations, any genuine feeling of democracy is really dead, and the worst part of it all is that it might need to be at the expense of Mexicans and Muslims to ensure that the US doesn't face this but continues to have news and politics abuse racial tensions for their profits. Again, just fucking helpless, because there's so much we should've already been doing in such a dying climate but most likely we're instead going to just keep fucking ourselves over until things seriously tank. I don't want to see so much to go to waste over the greed of corporations and the gullibility of the people who'll vote them - and it's even more depressing to think that if Sanders weren't running there would absolutely no choice but to give in. People are working longer hours for less, and no one has the ability to put a stop to it, and if you want to be like Sanders and do absolutely everything you can you'll get the full force against you.
TL;DR, I'm just feeling incredibly alienated and anxious and I don't know where I want to take myself in all of it. I'm upset with myself and my surroundings, edgy as it sounds. I want to just turn away from all of it and indulge myself in something else, but it's a false comfort that's more like closing the curtains to a tornado. But at this point I just don't know where to aim myself at, or how to come to terms with a lot of these things, and how to find genuine relief. And if I have to be honest, I dunno if anything will necessarily different five years from now, and there's a kind of disconnection from things that's been with me for so long now and growing so much larger every year that I don't trust myself with handling any of this properly. Or basically, I'm socially retarded and scared shitless about global warming.
Not that I'm like sitting here everyday feeling like a shithead or something, but ^^ is just something that's always sort of looming over me and I just needed to put it into words.
