The thing that really got to me was Ready Player One, the world they lived in, how everything had gone to shit, climate change taking a turn for the worst, government and the economy taking a dump on itself (you know only celebrities where presidents), just everything about it. You know Wade's mom, she is, or was, in our generation. In Ready Player One Ernest Clyde said that his mom had chronic depression from seeing everything like smart phones, fast computers, things anyone can get today, even a bright hopeful future go to shit. So what does she do? Wades mom killed herself. You know people say that Game of Thrones is a message about climate change. The White Walkers represent the end of everything, climate change, but everyone other than
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Living in a small apartment. Doing some bullshit job. And what? I'll live in a ruined world The world will have not payed attention. Too worried about stupid shit to give a damn about the future of the human race. It's not fair. You know if our generation just decided to not have any kids to slow down carbon emissions, it would slow climate change enough to make a massive, and I mean massive, difference. Now that's nice. But then you end up with a scenario like Idiocracy where all the smart people stop reproducing and all the dumbasses have too many kids. It keeps me up at night, literally. This thought process is going through me at all times. Yesterday morning while I was walking up to Millikan and wondered how people would react to me telling them this. Would they think I'm insane? Or would it cause a genuine concern in their minds too? If so is that what the whole Rachel's Challenge thing is actually about? A chain reaction for the better good? Would someone I tell, who grows a genuine concern, even tell anyone else? I don't know, and I've kept this held up inside me for way too long, and am worried that if I send it, you'll either get the same anxiety as me, or you will be annoyed that I had you read a wall of text that is basically a teenager being all dark and
Living in a small apartment. Doing some bullshit job. And what? I'll live in a ruined world The world will have not payed attention. Too worried about stupid shit to give a damn about the future of the human race. It's not fair. You know if our generation just decided to not have any kids to slow down carbon emissions, it would slow climate change enough to make a massive, and I mean massive, difference. Now that's nice. But then you end up with a scenario like Idiocracy where all the smart people stop reproducing and all the dumbasses have too many kids. It keeps me up at night, literally. This thought process is going through me at all times. Yesterday morning while I was walking up to Millikan and wondered how people would react to me telling them this. Would they think I'm insane? Or would it cause a genuine concern in their minds too? If so is that what the whole Rachel's Challenge thing is actually about? A chain reaction for the better good? Would someone I tell, who grows a genuine concern, even tell anyone else? I don't know, and I've kept this held up inside me for way too long, and am worried that if I send it, you'll either get the same anxiety as me, or you will be annoyed that I had you read a wall of text that is basically a teenager being all dark and