Modern Day Doomers

Have we crossed the rubicon from selective outrage to outrageous outrage?

I am sort of dismayed with conscious choice of people on the left or even slightly left of center to be terrified over what Trump and Musk have accomplished so far. Their conversations make it sound like the sky is falling. It's even more strange to see this level of self-inflicted terror while the other half are pleased as punch.

I could see during Covid that one side was scared out of their wits, at least by something that had actualized the *potential* to be seriously life threatening for a lot of people. They seemed, at the time, to be scared that the Donald Trump administration wasn't tyrannical enough. Kind of ironic in hindsight. The other side was cautiously optimistic about the outcome of the virus, but less trusting of the tyranny proposed by the Trump administration. Neither group was completely happy or delighted about the risks a virus might pose to human life. Thus, one could conclude that some alarm may have been warranted. The reaction or policies enacted to address that alarm is obviously debatable.

But if you are of the mindset that “the world is over, kiss our ass goodbye” while other people are absolutely blissful, maybe you’d stop and ask yourself whether the reason you have selected to lose your mind is truly so earth shattering to warrant this level of response.

Is a meteor hitting? Is there a plague? Have stock markets completely crashed? Are aliens invading and killing our children on the streets? (Nix that last one, also debatable.)

Are people in your Chicken Little camp responding EQUALLY terrified to the news that vaccines will soon be tested for safety, toxic food dyes removed from shitty breakfast cereal, and fluoridation of drinking water (after an extensive scientific trial concluded in Feb of 2024 found that fluoride even the tiniest amounts was causing verifiable harms and would be required by law to be phased out of drinking water across the US with a deadline for governing bodies to devise a plan to that end) would be effectively ended as it should?

Are those overreactions?

So, might it be also, an overreaction when YOU think the sky is falling?

One major concern is government job terminations. I think that security in any job is absolutely bonkers. The idea that any job is entirely safe seems laughable. What is even more nuts to me today is that for fear of a virus with a tiny death toll, we told healthy people even in private companies to stop working. The fear mongers forced private companies with healthy employees to shut down production of food, manufacturing parts of cars, whatever things make the world economy go round all ceased- just in case. The amount of people put out of work in jobs that were otherwise productive and sustainable because “just in case” didn’t seem to bother any of the people losing their minds today. But today, jobs that are by nature considered wasteful, unsustainable and unproductive which were only created through greed, waste and corruption which are draining an already economically challenged country dry, those jobs being terminated is insane to you? Earth shattering? Oh my God, there's no reason to live anymore? Are we doomed?

Thinking your job will always exist and you will always get paid to sit around in your jammie’s and scroll on Google all day is an absolute myth. Thinking a job where you serve some role at a base in a foreign country which is supposed to be a service to the other country, and not the country you work for, when the country you work for has a broken economy- this shouldn't bring any more emotion than personal disappointment. It's not worthy of outrage and terror on behalf of others.

I am willing to stand up for stranded families in foreign posts forced to give up their personal possessions for likely years on end because the system didn't make a good exit strategy. But the job loss itself was well warranted. They aren't productive jobs that serve or create value for the nation that employed them.

No one should have ever imagined that a position that ultimately produces no marketable goods or services is sustainable much less, secure. Coming to this awareness shouldn’t be startling nor earth shattering.

Others are in death throes over deportation, willing to toss away friendships and terrify their children about the abomination of telling people from other countries who don't have passports, visas, greencards or other forms of legal passage documentation that they can't stay here. The outrage of kicking out people who by law are trespassing (with free plane tickets on rather comfortable aircraft) seems “big” next to the lack of outrage the same people made when Israel destroyed indigenous inhabitants (starved and blew off limbs of infants) in their own homeland without restraint.

Whether or not you agree with deportation and immigration laws, there are legitimate reasons why every country, tribe, settlement or community on earth which has ever been inhabited by man has such regulations and restrictions on foreign immigrants or invaders trying to establish themselves (whether directly hostile or not) on the territory used, hunted and occupied already by another established group of inhabitants.

Now, if you want to make square tires, (reinvent the wheel before understanding or acknowledging the purpose of a wheel) go ahead and do that to your car before telling inhabitants they should accommodate every outsider on their culture’s established territorial region. Many of us once believed, some still do, that the only truly sovereign state consists of one person/family per isolated property. People who live that way have rarely (I’m talking maybe one per hundred years of humans on earth) survived long without someone who lived in a society not too far off to occasionally make a trade. A homeowner/homesteader on land does not a civilization or society make. It’s embarrassing that I ever believed that any society’s laws should only pertain to the end of my personal property knowing that humans are social, interdependent beings who have always lived in tribal lands, villages or settlements together. Their harmony and success to that end is a little bit more complicated than simply not hitting or shooting each other. *Cough cough at the end all, be all, tremendously over stated, over valued NAP*

Nevertheless, discovering yet another antisocial, economy-wrecking proposition is unsustainable should be much less irritating or deserving of your Chicken Little routine than what you have given it.

Speaking of chickens, making fun of people who can’t afford to feed their families because your preferred POTUS destroyed hundreds of millions of FLOCKS of HEALTHY hens, just in case, seems rather callous from people who are mad we can’t sustain non productive workers around the globe. Making fun of people who cannot afford gas to get to productive jobs again seems insensitive coming from people who are losing their minds over toxic food additives being removed from their already unhealthy breakfast cereal and candy. Being disgraceful and ugly toward people who are getting priced out of the entire housing market seems insensitive coming from people who defend unlimited, unmitigated and unregulated immigration of people that have after decades of living here refused to attempt to establish themselves as citizens while exploiting all of our care facilities established for the sake of our own disadvantaged citizens until those systems don't work properly, many being here demonstrating zero interest nor intention of assimilating to the social norms of current inhabitants, after 20-30 years, many even longer, not even desiring to have a conversation with anyone who lives here in our native tongue- and acting completely antisocial towards the predominant American public and in such a way that, in any other tribe, village, culture, town, settlement or territory, at any time through history that ever existed until here and now where it's obviously not working and creating massive problems to the society, it would be defined as aggressive, invasive behavior to the civilization therein. (Yes, that was a run-on sentence for propagandizing effect. I think righteous propaganda, but you decide.)

But moreover, whether or not you agree with anything I have said thus far, even if you feel I am completely off base on the political, fiscal or cultural implications made herein, riddle me this: if you had the choice to feel calm, if you had the choice to not speak in terms that make your children want to unalive themselves, why would you in any circumstances insist on terms that convey doom to your offspring? What earthly benefit is it to speak and act in ways that cause your kids to prefer to be dead?