question in the format of a cohost/tumblr ask; apocalypse, elilla&'s roots?, long, reads kinda like a trauma dump but i get to the question eventually after i feel i've established the context. Achtung! may increase doom levels!
@elilla 
hello! you often talk about climate apocalypse and jp,br culture that we haven't been exposed to much, and certainly not as directly.,
i liked your mom's quote you posted but i don't think it works in e.g. my position, i'm 18-very-soon and still w my parents, one of whom sheltered me from the local culture for a while (there's more here…) and it feels pretty representative of surveillance capitalism; we have so many complicit machines that help capitalism continue to run that i don't think we'll have a power restructuring unless it turns out to be a very quick big collapse.
so, with all of that authoritarianism painted, i'd like to now take you to the typical "transfem who's still figuring her shit out" who is probably very dependent on fragile internet infra, perhaps public transport and maybe is socially traumatized (like us)
how does that work out for her? personally i'm gonna be Fine it's been a while and i'm healing from the worst bits... but what about the new girl; what do you see in her future?
question in the format of a cohost/tumblr ask; apocalypse, elilla&'s roots?, long, reads kinda like a trauma dump but i get to the question eventually after i feel i've established the context. Achtung! may increase doom levels!
@ckie I think the future looks pretty bleak, and I can't answer the question honestly with any other answer. It looks like things will go bad in the short term and worse in the medium term. climate stuff is hitting faster than expected and there's no indication of any meaningful change by the powerful. I guess anyone paying attention will have to give the same answer.
I don't think there's going to be a movie apocalypse thing, only conditions increasingly worsening like they have been for the past few years, and never stopping getting worse.
I believe people are not as dependent on the system as the system makes them believe. I know this isn't a popular opinion and it can come off as condescending but I really think that in conditions of freedom people discover strengths that they had no idea they could have.
I believe it's possible to find ways to make life worthwhile in the crumbling ruins of society and that's probably the best we can hope for. to have a good life in this situation, the most important thing is to find friends you can trust and learn to stick together.