I’ve find myself thinking about the world a lot more over the last couple years. My ideas and views on things have changed, are changing, and are constantly being challenged by myself and the world around me. As a people, we came so far in technology, science, infrastructure, and the organization, complexity, and appearance of functionality of our different societies. We have all of this knowledge, and increasing and growing knowledge, on all sorts of topics such has health, biology, medicine, AI, architecture, electronics, agriculture, food, and just about anything you can name. Despite this, the most “well off” countries can’t even take care of their sick, homeless, hungry, and so on. 

I don’t want this to be political in nature, as I don’t think politics and the American political system can solve these issues. I think there has to be some sort of societal change in how we view the world at the most foundational levels. I think people as a whole and as individuals will have to take compassion, kindness, and love over greed and self-interest. That’s really general and vague, but I think if there’s a fundamental shift in society in our attitudes and values, everything will follow. 

While I was never one of those weird anti-climate change people, years ago, I feel like I was indifferent towards it. Being pretty young still, the future of our physical planet has been increasingly contributing to my anxiety as much as my hypochondria and the future of people and society. 

It’s sad to see what people have done to the world, but anything we can do on an individual level seems usuales. I know it’s not useless, at least completely, but that’s how it feels. Corporations and governments that have the ability to significantly help fix climate change have never seem to care. They paraded the Greta girl around to say “Hey look, we care about climate change, or at least we want to look like we do, but we don’t really want to do anything about it.”

I have a weird, somewhat illogical fear contributing to it all as well. I’m afraid of getting diagnosed with something like diabetes or another “serious but very treatable with modern medicine disease”, and society collapsing and treatment options along with it. I know that probably sounds a little crazy and somewhat selfish, but it gives me anxiety still. 

Sorry for what turned into a little rant, but the state of the world is just so destroying and anxiety inducing. How do y’all cope?