#societal collapse

[existennialmemes]

Sorry, I never responded to any of your messages!

I didn't think society was going to last this long

#shitpost #shitposting #societal collapse #dystopia #leftist memes

[thenorthernlight]

This now lives in my mind rent free.

#timothee chamalet #venice 79 #venice film festival #i hate it here #unprecedented times #societal collapse

[savage-rhi]

I didn't realize bee trafficking was a thing until I worked with kids. Them kids collected a whole ass tin can of live bees and were trading them like limited edition Pokemon cards. The next gen is gearing up for and ready for societal collapse.

#shit i deal with at work #kids man they thinking 50 steps ahead #kiddo flat out told me bees are worth more than dollars #cause if you kill them off everything dies #so treat bees like they gold #im fucking astonished #funny #bees #societal collapse #lmao

[joymode00]

Gonna start scheduling posts so that when society collapses in like, 2050, I can keep tranny shitposting alive

#trans #transgender #global warming #i guess #uhh #societal collapse #thats a fun one #al gore

[j-a-n-e--d-o-e]

So this is all bullshit but I've been hyper fixating on mha for months now to the point of having read and watched almost nothing else ( probably obvious given the state of my tumblr ) but what if the reason the hero rankings in MHA are effected by popularity and not just your stats is because The Top 10/20 are meant to act as a balance /overseer to the Commission?

Like we all know the hpsc are a shady organisation with no real public or gov. oversight, but what if that wasn't always the case? What If the Top Heroes were meant to be that oversight with public approval affecting rankings because that meant the top 10 better represented the views and beliefs of the general public. However, over time, as the hpsc grew more corrupt, they suppressed this information, buried the bi-laws related to it & altered hero school lessons so it was forgotten.

Heroes usually die young, rarely living to retirement age, and in the span of a single generation, the most important aspect of being a top 10 hero was completely forgotten. It went from being an important sociopolitical role to a mere Status symbol, and the hpsc were free to do as they please.

I just feel that it makes sense, especially as it feeds into the idea that the way their society is structured has been failing for a while now. The Hpsc Is super corrupt, and in my mind, they're the true evil within MHA, but I doubt they started out that way.

The idea that no one considered the HPSC going rogue when it was founded and raising child soldiers or profiting off what it was meant to stop is insane to me. I mean, they were dealing with the aftermath of societal collapse and government failure.

Bitter, traumatised people and you want me to believe they never worried? never doubted what it was they were doing?

No. They had to have known it was a possibility.

In my mind, the state of Japan in MHA, once you notice the cracks and shit is much more insidious and terrifying if there were checks and balances in place to prevent this outcome, they just weren't enough.

#MHA #bnha #bnha headcannons #headcanon #my writing #my headcanons #hpsc #hpsc bashing #my hero headcanons #my hero academia #hero public safety commission #dark #ramblings #mha headcanons #mha hawks #hero rankings #Theories #societal collapse #checks and balances

[xxacidicgoddessxx]

Okay, from a sociological perspective, season 6 is absolute FIRE 🔥

Break down the regime!! Create ABSOLUTE CHAOS!!! Call the “safety commission” out on their shit!!!

Mother, I crave violence, Lady Nagant, and anarchy.

#social structure #societal collapse #mha #Bnha #quirks? no problem #dozen untrained civilians proceed to get injured and blame their poor judgement skills on heroes #season 6 spoilers #lady nagant #vigilante deku

[trentboswell]

Not Long for This World - The Twisted Poetry of a Climate Apocalypse - The Unimaginable Horrors of Our Approaching Collective Nightmare, the Total Collapse of Human Society - by Kevin Trent Boswell

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVBKZV9R

#human extinction #NTHE #Doom #doomer #existential dread #existential threat #collapse #societal collapse #climatechange #climate crisis #climate catastrophe #climate emergency #polycrisis #poetry #poem #dark #dark poetry

[well-hello-hi]

If aliens wont make contact with us bcus they dont want to ruin our religion for us for fear that our society would collapse, just do it i actually want to experience societal collapse i think it would be fun

🥺

#what the fuck #weird #weird post #i dunno #aliens #random #societal collapse #societal decline #just end it

[hellpuppetswithfleshymembers]

#maga morons #u.s. mental health crisis #wtf is going on #wtf is this #armageddon #societal collapse

[boof-chamber]

I love to share the pain of life under capitalism, accelerationism, and the collapse of society with you

#societal collapse #accelerationism #capitalist hell #birb memes #love birds #capitalism #late stage capitalism

[existennialmemes]

I really don't wanna figure out my taxes, so can society just finish collapsing before April?

#us taxes #societal collapse #shitpost #shitposting

[anthrotographer]

Leave the World Behind (2023)

Set in the modern day, the film follows the Sandfords. A family that takes a spontaneous trip from the city to upstate New York. They soon realize, that rash decision might’ve saved their lives. The U.S. is soon to be in the throes of a cyber attack from foreign adversaries. Drones are dropping leaflets on both seaboards that read “death to America”. Planes are falling out of the sky. Wild animals are congregating together to send a message to humanity about impending doom. With all that happening why does ‘Leave the World Behind’ feel so flat?

Most of this two hour + movie feels like we are watching these people on a lavish vacation instead of dealing with their country being attacked. The family rents a mansion for the weekend but the first night there is a knock at the door. Because of the blackouts in the city, George (Mahershala Ali) and Ruth Scott decide to come back home. This leads to a lot of animus from Amanda directed at the Scotts, which considering the circumstances really shouldn’t have been a big deal. They mostly sit and talk trying to piece together what might be causing all the service outages, for example. Lounging and waiting around when what’s happening in the world would seem to inspire more action to occur. Amanda Sandford (Julia Roberts) especially, but the film in general, is a lot of talk and little show. Her lines are full of exposition telling us what is going to happen, what she and they are about to do and it feels like Roberts is just reading lines. Mahershala Ali’s character was similar with the exposition but his character felt like a more real personality. The fault was mostly in the writing but the acting performances all fell somewhere on a scale from mediocre to great. 

Amanda is a very confusing character and hard to like. She says she “fucking hates people” but also says she feels lucky to be part of the world where so many are out there making something of themselves. She constantly states her disdain and distrust in others, but contradicts herself at points in the film where she says she misses people. I know people are hypocritical and can change their minds but she comes off as an inconsistent character. For the majority of the film she is combative, unreasonable and on the back foot wanting desperately that others solve problems for her. And then in the third act Amanda delivers this monologue; “We fuck each other over all the time, without even realizing it. We fuck every living thing on this planet over and think it’ll be fine because we use paper straws and order the free range chicken. I think deep down we know we are not fooling anyone. I think we know we are living a lie. An agreed upon mass delusion to help us ignore and keep ignoring how awful we really are.” A description of humanity this discerning feels really out of place coming from her. This line and many others like it feel too scripted. 

Ruth says Friends is a show “nostalgic for a time that never existed”. This is a scripted line that rolls off her tongue better seeing as Ruth is setup as a character that is socially and culturally conscious. She mentions this about Friends because Rose, Amanda’s daughter, is obsessed with the show. Rose finally gets to watch the series finale of her favorite sitcom when in the movie’s closing scenes she finds a fallout bunker with a grand collection of DVDs. I sort of found this ending to have a nice symbolism with Ruth’s context because as the bombs are falling outside, signifying the dark reality, Rose has one last chance to fall into that ideal, fictional world.

The Friends music, juxtaposed to the previous chilling scenes of NYC getting bombed, felt off. The soundtrack in total did not flow or sound like they were the right songs for the film. The choice of using up-beat hits clash with most of the imagery of a boring high end AirBnb get away. 

The camera work is technically impressive at points where the camera traverses cars or rooms in acrobatic tracking maneuvers. The technique does get overused though. Are the multiple upside down shots supposed to signify how the world is being turned upside down? I suppose. Like the music I didn’t find these choices to fit well. Maybe they are both in effort to enliven the scenes introducing the film’s unstimulating setting. If so, either a change of setting or a change of style might’ve worked better. 

It seems like the movie is trying to point out many different things about society without totally dissecting any of them. A few themes you notice while watching are; can we live without the internet, blissful ignorance of the decline of the empire, humanity’s cause of environmental collapse, selfishness vs selflessness. I agree with many of the ideas the film is alluding to, yet like many Hollywood movies today I don’t think it explores the ideas deeply or effectively enough. One of the more provocative things the film brings up is the idea that we are in part responsible for any attacks thrown our way.

Our government and military claims that all of its excursions around the world are defensive, but these things that they do in our name more than likely are at our expense. The U.S. empire leaves us less safe. “We’ve made a lot of enemies around the world. Maybe all this means is that a few of them teamed up.” This is the most interesting quote in the film where Danny (Kevin Bacon), the rural survivalist, points out different cues he’s picked up examining national affairs that led him to think we were susceptible to attack. The empire’s hubris allows it to believe it’s untouchable. We think we are safe, even George/G.H. (Mahershala Ali) mentions that he never thought ‘we’ could let this happen. As if multiple world powers have never allied together to stop a blood hungry empire an ocean away (and the U.S. is blood hungry, just look at our pursuits in Palestine, Yemen, Ukraine, Iraq, Vietnam, etc etc etc). I respect that the movie brings this up for American viewers to contemplate the vulnerable position we can be put in. Now, the harder pill to swallow that naturally should follow is the fact that as citizens we are not all just innocent bystanders. We have culpability for the machinations of the United States. We have agency to speak up in mass and change the actions our country takes, and still the majority of us haven’t. I suppose the Sandfords and Scotts are meant to represent the passive, oblivious, well-to-do, American family existing in an imaginary bubble of safety. Is everyone equally vulnerable though?

One among the many things that bugged me watching this was how it characterized the elite of the world. George repeatedly references one of his investor clients who is part of the “evil cabal that runs the world” /s. It is meant to be sarcastic but the client works in defense contracting so it’s not really. Because of his existence in the upper strata of society he was privy to the fact that shit was about to go down. So its inferred that the client was able to get away to safety. And G.H. says, in a weighty moment in the plot, “No one is in control, no one is pulling the strings. Sure there are those like my friend who might have the right kind of access to the right kind of information. But when events like this happen in the world, the best even the most powerful people can hope for is a heads up.” First, as if these powerful people aren’t the one’s creating the international disasters (ex; fossil fuel execs in the case of climate change or defense contractors in the case of Middle East invasions). And second, this paints the elite just as blue as everyone else. We know there are different rules for the rich and powerful in this world, so to pretend that they only have marginal advantages is laughable. Yes it’s hard to escape a country wide assault but some people can afford to be in a second home abroad or an underground bunker as we saw in the closing scenes. 

Rating: 6/10

#movie review #movies #film photography #film #leave the world behind #2023 #mahershala ali #julia roberts #ethan hawke #kevin bacon #myha'la herrold #empire #us empire #us imperialism #barbosafilm #movie poster #sam esmail #societal collapse

[lucille-morningstar]

Society is Corrupt; Long Live the Fools

#jester #clown #society is fucked #government corruption #societal collapse #societal commentary

[something-along-the-lines-of-man]

They remember the soil

We did not evolve for how this world is now. We didn’t evolve to live in buildings that block the sun, in cities that scream night and day. We didn’t evolve to stare at screens, to sit all day wishing we were anywhere but now. Your hands evolved to be used, to fish, to farm, to hug. They remember the soil, and still they yearn.

We evolved in simpler times when the world was green and wild. Threats were immediate and dangerous. Don’t be fooled. It was not easy. Life, herself, is not easy. We lost loved ones, but our souls sang in tune. Listen now, hear how the gears jam.

Look at us all. We are lonely, anxious, depressed. This culture has taken from us what we know is truth. The earth, the sky, the trees. Going. Going… almost gone.

In return, it has given us untruths. Things that masquerade as real. Social media will never stop you being lonely. Money will never make your heart rich. Material items will never fill the hole in your soul.

So, no wonder you cry. No wonder you long for something else. You are out of time. You were not born for now. Come now, close your tired eyes. It is okay. You are not wrong. The world is.

#anti capitalism #Destroy Capitalism #mordern life #prose #prose writing #culture #capitalism #lonely #depression #anxitey #creative wrting #writing #creative nonfiction #evolution #cities #societal collapse #love yourself #thoughts #life #this life #something has to give #something has to change #live despite it all #wise words #words of mine