How do you deal with existential dread?
Lately I have been feeling very pessimistic about the future. Our democracies are falling apart and the freedoms we fought for are being taken away. The political future of the western world appears to be more authoritarian. Of course the climate crisis is already happening and we are experiencing more and more environmental disasters. Surveillance systems are being set up all over the world. Our data is being used against us. We are losing our financial sovereignty with digital centralised currency system that’s being set up. And even as a person who is trying to set up a media business, I am afraid that press freedom will be soon gone and my company will be over in a few years but most importantly we will be even more punished for free speech.
Unnecessary wars, genocides, SA, trafficking happening all around world. Stupid people getting to positions of power and destroying our lives. Billionaires hoarding their money and gaining more control of the world. Not even mentioning the elite constantly eliminating the scientists discovering solutions that will actually help humanity like free energy with the antigravity technology or cures for certain diseases.
I know with all this I might sound like a conspiracy theorist but I just feel lost. What is the point of living when the world is going south? I am very much aware that there has already been chaos but now it feels like there’s more. I don’t know how to be hopeful. I know that I am here in this life for a very specific mission and I have so much motivation toward it, but I still feel lost. I know what to do with my life, yet the idea of future scares me and steals my will for life.