End of the World
Posted by Captain of the Poop Deck in buncha whining
So Stephanie all but convinced me last night that I will live to see the apocalypse. It's not like it was never in the back of my mind. In fact, upon getting my first job, I asked someone if it was more beneficial for me to learn programming or small game hunting. It's just so fucking depressing, and it makes me really angry. I also realized that, despite my general, vague, and increasingly abstract belief in social justice, environmental sustainability, etc, I really do like the "American way of life." I want the world at my fingertips, and it's scary to think of that disappearing. I know this sounds like the unimportant, self-indulgent whining of a rich, privileged person (which it is), so you don't really have to care. I understand that desperately hanging on to luxury devalues real suffering, and in this case leads to the destruction of humanity, but...I like all the things that come with mass consumption of fossil fuels, and I can't help it. I guess, like a million times before, I can come to a conclusion about myself or the world and ignore it, or I can take issue with it and work toward solving the problem. Yes! ok. Did I just tell myself to save the world?
