Andrea: I don't know how old you are, but: no. Not like this. There has always been a measure of trust, that even if things go bad, governments would try to do the best for their people. That trust is gone; all over the world people are now aware, they are just fodder for rich and powerful people.

I still think this and I try to keep it in mind even while 80% of my feed is people expressing outrage and vitriol at anyone who isn’t wholeheartedly promoting some specific opinion about the best path forward for the world

I really do believe that most people are basically good, mean well, and want to have a positive impact on the world

Everyone is angry about the world and scared about the future and defensive on account of being pretty sure (correctly or not) that someone else is blaming them for something terrible and I don’t know if any of that will help but it’s probably useful to acknowledge what’s happening and breathe a bit

I don’t really want to armchair-psychoanalyze people but I swear I haven’t seen folks so constantly and universally marinating in their own stress hormones since like April 2020

Well, situation was pretty tense in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's up to the fall of Berlin wall.

I don't know how old you are, but: no. Not like this. There has always been a measure of trust, that even if things go bad, governments would try to do the best for their people. That trust is gone; all over the world people are now aware, they are just fodder for rich and powerful people.

Trust in gouvernement had almost disappeared by the second oil crisis in 1979.

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