Gloom....

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Fab Foodie

Legendary Member
No, not just the typical Devon winter weather, but a general feeling of malaise that seems to pervade almost everywhere at the moment, anyone else noticed?

The news is constantly deeply dismal, Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, Trump, lack of action on climate change, rise of the Right at home and abroad, Migration, Authoritarianism, disinformation and the post-truth world, influencers, Tech Bro controlled popular media, Religious fanaticism, oppression of women and minorities, dismal economic situation in the UK where the 2 elephants in the room (Brexit and taxing the rich) dare not be mentioned and that's just for starters. It's enough to make me want to disconnect with the world and withdraw into a Kirton bubble.
It's a feeling of helplessness I think. Makes me wish we'd carried out the plan to abandon to the Outer Hebs a few years ago and live the simple life...but even there our elderly friends are feeling much the same and are hunkered-down keeping themselves to themselves for self preservation. So it seems inescapable even in the most beautiful and remote of places. Fcukwits and fcukwittery are everywhere.

Should I give-up concerning myself with these things? It's hard when you have kids and grandkids, and when you still work and travel internationally (the malaise is not just confined to the UK). So many people feel angry, helpless and voiceless. What makes it worse is that I'm one of the lucky ones, well equipped for whatever disasters unfold geologically, financially, politically, maybe so many others have too much shoot to deal with on a daily basis nothing else matters than getting through each day.

What's to be done?
How can I make a difference?
How to battle the mistruths and the lies?
How to help make the world a better place and feel more at peace with it?

Answers on a postcard to EX17....
 

Ian H

Legendary Member
At least the UK has a competent, Labour government.

Okay, we're doomed.
 

All uphill

Well-Known Member
I can't remember a time when things weren't worse than ever before (according to the media).

The daffodils will soon be in flower, Devon will be green and sunny.
 

Xipe Totec

Something nasty in the woodshed
I'd like to offer a different perspective.

We live in exciting times - as long as you accept that abject, gut-churning, bladder-releasing horror is a form of excitement. All of our civilisations have reached the point of implosion and collapse, the world itself is burning and flooding, its atmosphere toxifying, soon entire populations will be on the march as their lands become uninhabitable, food & water become scarce and resources dwindle. All the while, the worst people on the planet become have grown wealthier and more powerful, until they have finally achieved ascendancy, and are poised on the brink of unleashing their Pandora's Box of holocausts.

And we, we privileged onlookers - we get to watch it happen! We get to watch cities burning, aircraft tumbling from the sky and exploding in shattering fireballs like some Hollywood special effect, we get to see the ragtag, starving hordes butchering each other with makeshift weapons over the last bottle of Lidl knockoff Evian, we get to witness the death of every hope, the mutilation of every dream, and the ushering in of the great, endless silence as the last fire, starved forever of oxygen, goes dark and the last lifeform draws its final wheezing, rattling breath. OK - maybe we won't get to see that bit.

But these are exciting times! Interesting times! These are the End Times - and we have ringside seats!

Pass the popcorn.
 

Rusty Nails

Country Member
Cheer up. The nights are getting shorter, and pretty soon:-

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CXRAndy

Well-Known Member
It's been a glorious few months, I just had join again and say how exciting it is to have a positive proactive president elected.

Unlike the miserable pile of crap Starmer and his crew are spewing

Let the good times roll

^_^
 

Xipe Totec

Something nasty in the woodshed
It's been a glorious few months, I just had join again and say how exciting it is to have a positive proactive president elected.

Unlike the miserable pile of crap Starmer and his crew are spewing

Let the good times roll

^_^

Well. I did nazi that coming.
 

C R

Veteran
It's been a glorious few months, I just had join again and say how exciting it is to have a positive proactive president elected.

Unlike the miserable pile of crap Starmer and his crew are spewing

Let the good times roll

^_^

Considering how eager you lot were to take your sovereignty back it is somewhat confusing to see how eager you are to surrender it to a nazi wannabe.
 
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