I have a friend who always used to call me a nihilist because of my attitude and to some extent that was true, lately I've been feeling more like an anarchist.
Have to check with reality daily whether I'm in a simulation gone wrong or has the entire world suddenly gone insane. It's literally wake up, read the news and say WTF.
I agree that we shouldn't stop fighting, but it's very uneven when you fight the people controlling the entire narrative. They own the TV's, the social media, The majority of the press as well as pumping money into disinformation.
They do, up to the point where, as we are seeing, technology starts being used by governments to suppress their people. Where social advances have identified many disorders, only for governments to use these medical labels (autism springs to mind in the US) to attack groups of people or refute science to blame these disorders on vaccines for example. Two vastly different sides of one messed up coin.
For every advance we make, these advances give tools to governments etc.
I get how far medicine has come and how we have got a handle on many diseases, and how technology has without doubt made our every day lives easier. But there's a flip side to that, and it's ugly.
While I agree with the sentiment, these have mainly come about due to technological advancements as well as social ones (diplomacy). We are at heart still a war mongering people with a need to dominate.
Humans are a cancer, we have developed and advanced technologically but we are still barbarians. There's very little we can do about the human condition so we will continue to watch these disasters and tut tut, and click on the next story.
I have a friend who always used to call me a nihilist because of my attitude and to some extent that was true, lately I've been feeling more like an anarchist.