The whole world feels fake and nightmarish ever since 2016. It genuinely doesn't feel to me like I even exist in the real world anymore.
When I look back at old pictures and videos of the world in 2015-and-earlier, it feels real and full of life. Things were logical back then, things made sense. There was a brightness to the world that simply doesn't exist anymore.
Compare that to now, and everything just feels... wrong. Suddenly, it's like I'm not really IN the world anymore. When I walk around outside among nature, or through the city streets, it feels like I'm watching it through a Youtube video rather than actually physically existing there.
I read the news and nothing makes sense. The things that happened in the world after 2016 are just completely insane. Some of the events that have happened, and the news headlines, would have read like apocalyptic fiction if you'd shown them to us 10 years ago. And the things that people believe now are just ridiculous.
It's like after 2016 the whole god damn world went into crazy mode and everyone became a lunatic. Everything just... flipped upside down.
Does anyone else know what I'm talking about? Does anyone else feel it?
stop doing drugs and your solipsism is a natural reaction to increased anxiety’s
Easton Evans
Ever play a game of Sim City when you were younger, and you made it really far but then got bored so you maxed out all disasters? God did that starting in 2016.
Brody Allen
The singularity is upon us
Bentley Rogers
I don't do drugs. I don't smoke marijuana because I don't enjoy it (tried it a few times, didn't like it). And I've been cutting down on my alcohol usage drastically this past year and have been going long stretches of time without drinking at all. I still feel like shit.
>Compare that to now, and everything just feels... wrong. Suddenly, it's like I'm not really IN the world anymore. When I walk around outside among nature, or through the city streets, it feels like I'm watching it through a Youtube video rather than actually physically existing there. maybe thats because your a political dissident ?
Aiden Martinez
What do you even mean by that?
I'm not politically radical at all. And Any Forums will hate me for saying this, but I'm basically a small-l liberal. I just hate the modern post-2016 progressive movement which has, in my view, destroyed the entire world that I once hold dear.
I came of age in the late 2000s and early '10s. When being a liberal meant being chill, relaxed, pro free speech, pro-gay in the sense of "let people do what they want", and advocating for a post-racial society rather than a society where race has to define everything we do. None of this ideology exists anymore, apparently. And when I state my beliefs to people, which are the same beliefs I had as a liberal 10 years ago, people act like I'm some "disgusting bigot" and that I'm "right-wing" somehow.
Evan Lopez
No. Get some sunshine. Turn off media. Play old games if you still need vidya. Exert yourself. Laugh.
Blake Murphy
I do all these things but it doesn't feel real.
Like I said, reality doesn't pack the same punch that it used to. I go walk in the woods, among the trees, chirping birds and bright sunshine, and it just feels... fake. It feels like I'm not really there.
Old video games and music sometimes helps because they trigger something in my brain that reminds me of when I was younger and brings me back to years when things were still sane. But that feeling only lasts for so long.
I'm beginning to really feel like I fell into a coma sometime in late 2016, and everything that's happened since then has been entirely a figment of my imagination.
Nicholas Perry
This is relatable tho about the old liberalism vs. the new. I wouldn't let those douchebags cramp your style though or make you think that you aren't real. Free your soul, get in touch with your inner light and be free!
Juan King
you don't love niggers and faggots and trannies or something? it's so progressive
Chemtrails and more shit in our food and water. It’s numbing us.
Oliver Williams
I think it's because "the narrative" used to at least be somewhat, kind of, ALMOST, maybe believable...but now it is just blatant retardation, false flag after false flag after cohencidence to take away our rights and destroy cultures and keep people atomized, yet the majority of people seem to still not be aware or for some reason go along with it. It's hard to fathom.
Now they just gaslight more intensely every day and say reality is the opposite of what you know it to be. It's meant to grind you down until you just accept the insanity.
I have seen this first hand. Normies today socially are now where "woke" used to be back in 2016.
All of the millennials that had those opinions eventually ended up being the ones that took control of all of the big social media spaces. With this power, they censored the nascent counter culture into oblivion which was keeping this in check from infecting normies. Notice how much more prevalent the clownish things from Tumblr back in 2014 are now all mainstream, while the people who made fun of it have now either recanted their prior opinions are have been banished to shitty ghettos like this place.
We are led by trannies, women, and out of the closet homosexuals. Nothing is natural right now, thus doesn't feel real. The only time we will get close to reality is when we go to world War 3 defending western values like men getting married with men and women leadership roles
Carson Wright
I would say the same. Its just that in 2016 that the insanity went mainstream, and in the years afterward that youthful opposition (notice the adjective I put prior to the word opposition) to the "successor ideology" or "woke" basically got banned from the mainstream platforms.
Yes user, I know exactly what you are talking about. My nostalgia grows for the 'land before' with each passing day that we stray further and further from what I can only describe as base reality. It's hard to make sense of this world anymore, and any optimism I once had for a future has been replaced by a looming sense of dread and doom. No one around seems to understand we are walking through hell, which only contributes to the guaranteed decline.
People like my wife remain completely oblivious. In fact, they recoil with contempt at the mere thought of occupying their minds with any of these ("negative") topics. She is the kindest person I know, so how can her (and people like her's) naivete be responsible for evil prevailing in this world? When I reflect on that, I think about the saying "Your reality is what you make it." Are our realities localized to our own individual consciousness? Do we contribute to our own decline by personally focusing on these things- and influencing the others around us in their own respective branches of reality? Would it go away if we just stopped? Or maybe we all share a collective moral responsibility, and we've failed to maintain karmic balance. What ever the case, I can't help but feel responsible. We've spent this time permeating in a Taiwanese basket weaving forum about what's to come, rather than commanding the change we want to see. We've failed because of our tendency to self-preservation, rather than doing what is right. All that's left is to beg for God's mercy now.
