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It feels like we’re on the brink of something
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Sometimes I feel like things are just moments away from falling apart. I worry that the leaders are doing their best to cover it up, but one day it will fall apart and it will fall apart suddenly.
I often think about how, if there was a planet-killer asteroid on a collision course with Earth, it's very likely it would be kept secret. At least if we had no way of stopping it.
I truly believe that if global warming is already past the point of no return, there would be a lot of powerful people out there with vested interests in keeping it under wraps. They'd definitely want to at the very least maintain their lifestyle while the boat sinks...
It would be so difficult to silence that news nowadays though, all it would take is 1 leak for scientists around the globe to start shouting about it, they couldn't even stop snowden back in the 2000s from revealing the goverments attempt to spy on Americans and now we have youtube, the fediverse, more independent news sites then you could shake a stick at. Its crazy how fast info can travel now.
I'm sorry, I agree with you.
I didn't need this in my head at 2 am. lol
Since Citizens United it has definitely had the feeling of a smash and grab here in the US. Like, everything was going realtively steady, but then the rich yelled "Riot!" and we're all sitting here watching them break the windows out of stores and grab fistfuls of our national wealth and resources.
The greed is just so incredibly out of control, like a wall-eyed frenzy. It's really unsustainable and gives the sense that the ultrawealthy have already decided imminent collapse is inevitable so they're just gonna get theirs.