r/rs_x • u/kallocain-addict This does not belong to us. We are not special. • Feb 22 '25

Schizo Posting 🔮

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u/ChristmasInKentucky Feb 22 '25

This post is funny, but I honestly feel like we're entering some sort of dark age

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u/throwaway10015982 ???? Feb 22 '25

I honestly feel like we're entering some sort of dark age

For the West, probably, if not certainly. A lot of the aggressive attacks on fed institutions in the USA are probably going to fuck life up to an extreme degree and we probably won't notice until a decade or two later when everyone has cancer, no one can read, science is widely derided (if you think I'm being hyperbolic, imagine telling someone in 2010 that ten years later there would be a massive pandemic that would cause heated debates about the validity of germ theory online) and there are Neo Nazi vigilantes killing homeless and poor people for sport

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u/TomShoe Feb 22 '25

Dark age is probably overselling it, even for the west. As bad as things are, postmodernity has yet to produce anything as bad as the crisis of modernity in the early 20th century (the First World War, then the depression, then another world war and the holocaust), and even that only lasted a few decades. Hell, most historians of what used to be called the dark ages would now argue that even they weren't all that dark. The next few decades will be dicey, for sure, but I think the idea that we're on the precipice of centuries of escalating human misery is a bit too fatalistic. By the time most of the people on this sub are old, I think we'll probably be through the worst of it.

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u/rewminate Feb 22 '25

"don't worry, you'll live thru the worst of it but it'll get better when you're old/dead 😊"

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u/Unwept_Skate_8829 Feb 23 '25

To have lived such that we improve the material conditions for generations to come is a beautiful thought isn’t it

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u/rewminate Feb 23 '25

no im sad my life sucks

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u/TomShoe Feb 23 '25

I mean I'm not pretending it's a great situation, but new dark ages seems unrealistically dire.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

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u/robb1519 Feb 22 '25

Perhaps this person didn't care to comment on the state of those places because they don't know enough about what's going on?

Also, just because some places aren't doing well, places that aren't them aren't automatically doing well. Comparison will be the thief of any sort of good future for humanity.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

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u/robb1519 Feb 22 '25

Great, awesome. Thank you anemic_twink for the pep talk. I didn't understand the western world's failings aren't failings because people on the other side of the world are failing worse.

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u/RuhRohRaggy_Riggers Feb 22 '25

There are starving children in Africa, shitlord

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

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u/robb1519 Feb 23 '25

ive lost my imagination

I can see that.

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u/Zomaarwat Feb 23 '25

Why should I respect the opinion of someone who has no idea what they are talking about?

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u/robb1519 Feb 24 '25

You don't have to respect the opinion of someone you disagree with that's for sure.

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u/Zomaarwat Feb 23 '25

And voila, there it is. I hate how panicky people are online. Most posters here live in the wealthiest, safest and most technologically advanced countries in the world. And yet, somehow, all we hear about is how things have never been worse. It's pathetic. They're all caught up in some absurd media panic. Go read about what's Genghis Khan did to the civilizations he conquered, read about what they did to people in the French Revolution. What actually happened in the "Dark Ages", or what Kissinger did to people who weren't fortunate enough to be born in the "first world". Or what's happening in Congo or Gaza right now. Turn your stomach inside out, and then fall down onto your knees and thank god you're alive today and not a hundred years ago.

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u/GLADisme Feb 23 '25

Are you being ironic? Things are going great for Asia and much of the Middle East outside of Palestine, Syria, Iraq, etc.

I agree thar things look pretty grim for Africa though.

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u/MelonHeadsShotJFK Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25

I wonder about that too sometimes. I think we’ve gotten too used to progress being strictly linear. Although even in dark ages progress still happens… human history isn’t one where things continuously get better 100% of the time. I don’t want things to get worse though lol

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u/softerhater latina waif Feb 22 '25

I'm unmanifesting this

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

Manifest off!

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u/ntwadumelaliontamer Feb 22 '25

I too am optimistic that I’ll have sex between now and 2028.

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u/TomShoe Feb 22 '25

This guy's a pretty good follow, he also has probably the best description of the city of Naples I've ever seen.

https://x.com/gossipbabies/status/1684191618474160128

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u/ShockoTraditional Feb 22 '25

His podcast (Celebrity Book Club) is one of my favorites

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u/albertossic Feb 23 '25

Gotta hand it to him I kinda wanna go now

What is the coolest Italian city?

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u/TomShoe Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

Probably Naples tbh. It's just kind of impossible not to live in the moment because everything about it is so immediate and visceral it just demands all of your attention. There's no time for ennui, you need to figure What's Going On, before it changes again. Thoreau said he went to the woods because he wanted to live deliberately, but he'd have been better off going to Napoli imho.

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u/albertossic Feb 23 '25

Where else in Italy have you been, for comparison?

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u/TomShoe Feb 23 '25

I lived there for like three and a half years, mainly in Bologna, but I also lived in Venice for a little over six months, and in a smaller city down in Puglia for six months. Aside from places I've actually lived, I've spent a fair bit of time in Rome, Bari, Lecce, Trento, and Verona. I've travelled a decent amount in smaller areas of Puglia, (I was working as a teacher there and had to travel to surrounding towns a lot), Trentino-Alto Adige (I have friends there who I'd spend a week or two with every summer, and for Christmas), Veneto and Liguria, although ironically not so much in Emilia Romagna, as usually when I had a chance to get out of town I opted to go further afield, which I kind of regret in retrospect.

Never been to Milan (though I generally tend to dislike the Milanese) or Torino (heard good things) and haven't spent much time in Florence since I was there as a kid, and I've never been to Sicily so I can't really opine about those places.

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u/moonwalkrecovery Feb 23 '25

Is lexapro an excuse for guy to not have abs or something?

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u/lurkthrow78 Feb 22 '25

As long as life is good

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u/Ok-Turnover-4288 Feb 23 '25

why would the hair transplant get worse?