You gotta wonder what's wrong with our society...

[mousme]

You have wonder what's wrong with our society when so many people envision a brutal apocalypse as the only solution to our troubles. After Armaggedon, people seem to believe, we're going to settle into some sort of agrarian utopia (after we shoot all the zombies starving looters/suburbanites, that is) and live happily ever after in a world without yuppies, SUVs, or water shortages.

Have things become so bleak that we can't envision things getting any better without most of the world dying off?

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Honestly, I don't think it would take anything of that magnitude to get rid of the people who are a drain on society. There are an awful lot of people out there who can barely tie their own shoes, much less feed themselves and protect themselves. Something minor (relatively) would get rid of most of them and the rest of us could go on living without them and be a lot happier.

I mean, look at how people are running around like chickens with their heads cut off about the recession. As if 75 or so years ago we weren't living in an actual depression with a large portion of the US being dust. Or, as if 65 years or so ago we weren't rationing everything and living on less so that we could fight a war.

(I know I'm being US-centric here, but it's my main frame of reference.) The people in the US don't know how good they have it compared to those in the past. And they cry, cry, cry over the dumbest shit. Every time I hear there's a recession, I keep wondering how come I still have at least a few hundred dollars left over every paycheck (assuming I don't spend it on absolute luxuries) when I only make around $18/hr (and work for the freakin' city.) I'm really not even sure if I qualify as middle middle class in the US. Maybe lower middle class. Which, honestly, is where a great deal of Americans are. But, they're still crying because they can't drive their SUVs all over creation and they can't buy so much food they throw half of it out. I mean, for Pete's sake, we have an OBESITY epidemic and we're worried about survival? Chicken Little needs to STFU.

Wake me when something really bad happens. In the meantime, I'll be at work talking to idiots who can barely dress themselves.