No I’m not catastrophising.
The world is slowly lurching towards a fully fascist led America, India, Hungary, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Argentina.
Instead people are either ignorant or blaming “wokeism”* for their problems.
I have no clue what to do and this is literally a car crash in slow motion.
I’m despondent because I’m going to be crushed under the boot when the time comes and my morals get in the way of my survival instinct.
Humans are repeating the mistakes of the past. It’s just so anxiety inducing.
*Woke is a useless term promulgated by fascists to dog whistle the things they really want to hate - feminism, socialism, LGBTQIA+, immigration, brown/black people, equality and diversity.
This. Being engorged in a bubble can skew one's world view pretty badly.
For instance, if you're only in Lemmy, you might indeed start to think that the world is going to a nazi hell again and the only way to fix that is a communist revolution, comrades. Or if you're in Twitter, you might start to think that the woke mobsters are ruining the west, or whatever.
If you're on tiktok or youtube, you'll get the bubble you taught those things to be.
The center is probably still holding, and normal people in normal life are being normal.
You just have to step outside of your bubble to look at the world stepping into fascism. Putting your head in the sand or throwing your hands in the air isn't going to help.
or what if, now hear me out, what if: some people look beyond their bubble, are highly skeptical of the media, and research stories from multiple angles???
it it conceivable that someone could possibly be aware of the filter bubble effect, and they try to pop it?
we are definitely descending into fascism...
while many people are fighting it, we are getting scarily closer on many fronts...
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this should be terrifying because if they do get fully into power, first thing they'll do is round up people like us
What makes you so confident you're not the one in a bubble?
By seeing the sun shine and the birds tweet, real actual tweeting. Not sniffing Elon Musk's farts.
By pretending nothing exists beyond your immediate surroundings, in other words.
I don't know wtf you think Elon Musk has to do with anything.
I'm confident that I am in a bubble and that I'm not fully aware what kind of a bubble it is.
Well, that's more than I was expecting. Might I suggest you look around for signs that fascism (or at the very least, authoritarianism) is on the rise in many democratic countries? Some countries to look at are the US, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Turkey, India, and Israel.
Sure, some of those are obvious, like Turkey and Hungary. They've been on that path for several decades now. Some people in Turkey tried to fix the situation with a failed coup, which made things even worse of course.
I have to note that sometimes the pendulum still swings the other way. For instance, just a year ago, we (Finland) had the most left liberal government we've ever had before swinging to the current one -- which in turn is the most rightist government we've had in 50+ years. Poland just turned back from a rather conservative path that they had followed for quite long to a more liberal one.
India, Italy and Germany I don't know that much about. Germany also is currently on a rather liberal government, but the next one will probably be more conservative. The recent change seems to stem from Russia's war in Ukraine, that made everyone more conservative and militaristic out of fear. When the war ends (it should at some point, somehow), I believe/hope the fear can dissipate. Depends a lot on how it ends and if the risk of Russian invasion lingers.
Israel's government is pretty unpopular in Israel. They might very well vote a very different kind in the next elections, unless Netanjahu can somehow pull a win in Gaza.
Then there's the population crisis, coming from the boomer generation. People are old. That makes the political and economic situations worse, which in turn makes everything worse. In history, the left has usually been able to capitalize on such misery, but for some reason I don't quite understand the populist right has been snatching the sentiment.
And then there's Russia, possibly the most fascistic country on this side of the planet, directly funding and supporting the rise of fascism in Europe. There's a possible silver lining here too if Russia loses its war: a weakened Russia could mean weakened fascism everywhere.