The worst thing about the world ending before your eyes - as in, everything is dead and there is just. too. much. horrifying. horseshit going on in the world, and you are just. so. fucking. tired of it all? Feeling powerless to stop it. Or you try to do something good, no matter how little a good deed it is, to show that morality isn't dead, and it isn't making a lick of difference. And nobody cares about you and what you do. You are ordinary, insignificant, not super in anyway, try as you might be somebody important, and this frustrates you immensely.
Common sense, human decency, facts, truth, progress - these are dying, and you feel powerless to save humanity, which is on the brink of collapse. It might already be too late to try to change anything, for we as a species are now broken beyond repair, and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
At least there are many artists and activists who are striving to change things for the better for the world right now. Pop culture can save us, as insane as that statement sounds. Pop culture isn't merely escapism - which is also toxic and dangerous for our times - it reflects social and political truths. Everything is political - this has always been the case, and the sooner we all realize this, the sooner progress can happen. The sooner 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Hunger Games will stop becoming a reality.
We have always been warned by artists. It is time to finally start listening.
Never forget history. Never forget the past.
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