Yo people,
I am listening lofi hip hop for like 8 years now. I have Lofi Girl youtube stream opened since 9 AM up to 9 PM everyday for all these years. My life is shitty but this music puts me in a vibe that makes me feel good.
So I'd like to say thank you to lofi creators for making it. Peace.
Picture this: a post-apocalyptic world. Like, no regular medicine, no dentists, no pills, no surgeons - the kind we know today. No anesthetics, no vaccines for deadly diseases. No cars, no planes, no commuter trains. No digital communications; if you wanted to send a message, it would take weeks of delivery time. The houses don't have running water, no central heating, no electricity. In this world, only the nobles could afford meat, and regular people, like you and me, we only eat what we grow in our backyard garden. There's no police, no ambulance, no firefighters, no schools for your kids, no daycare, no social services, no insurance. Basically, nothing that could help you when things got rough.
People on this planet lived like this for thousands of years - through all of human history and they didn't complain, they didn't panic. It was just normal. The massive amount of comfort we have today? That started showing up like, a century ago. And in these past hundred years, we've become so spoiled that even when we have a fridge absolutely stuffed with good food, we still feel the need to say like everything is terrible.
Still think the economy is just about central bank politics, interest rates, stocks, and market volatility? Oh no, friends, let me crash this assumption because the economy is fundamentally about strong families, high birth rates, healthy kids, community solidarity, hardworking people, just genuinely decent human beings - it’s all about the moral framework of society.
But today, when we have a full-blown, uncompromising gender war, zero birth rates, kids being high 24/7 on TikTok like hopeless drug addicts whose brains are fried beyond repair, and irresponsible workers who expect crazy amounts of cash for doing a mediocre job, the whole world society polarization so we can't even understand the other side anymore, and we’re ready to kill anyone who disagrees with us. We have booming theft and other kinds of crime, and human morality is completely shot, literally everywhere on the planet so the understanding of what is good and what is bad has flipped upside down, and somehow, nobody even seems to notice.
In this insane cycle of global chaos, all the moral and social foundations that underpinned the economy, when they were still strong, led us to prosperity like humanity has never seen before, and now all that have been destroyed. I want to emphasize that what drove that success was healthy people, healthy society, and strong moral and ethical anchors, which is what allowed humanity to get so far.
Now, all of that is ruined, and either it can't be resurrected, or even if it can, nobody seems to want to fix it. We're casually burning down everything that was truly valuable, like it’s the end of human history.