I'm tired of living in "interesting times"

We're living in desperate times. Being alive's our only crime.

[Quote] "Nothing happened today." Will we ever go back to that time again?

Never OP the news has a lot of space to fill and time to kill and the internet exists on news and information

OP there was never “nothing going on.” We were all just ignorant of it. People received their news twice a day, in the paper in the morning and at 6pm at night. People filled their lives with stuff that pertained to them instead of doing doom scrolls of every global catastrophe within the last 24 hrs or news of horrible things to come. So ignorance is bliss. You can chose to disconnect and live your life they way that most lived theirs decades ago.

To be fair, people of my parents age who are long gone really didnt have access to 24 hour news cycle, internet, even if they wanted to be that engage. They had the paper, and maybe a nightly news hour.

Read more history. It'll make you more grateful for what you do have.

You could just stop looking for things to be upset at.

[quote] You can chose to disconnect

Yes! Do it! It doesn't even mean to stay ignorant. Just be more aware of what news is important and what news is just noise. I want to say 80% by now is just irrelevant noise. Just go through threads here and see what riles up readers. It's totally irrelevant crap.

Because the US has allowed itself to become overly and hysterically divisive, things will never get better in our country. Trump and company are bankrupting government and no one seems to care. There will be continued fighting and blaming. Violence is also going to get worse as people become poorer and more desperate.

Log off and the problem goes away. The internet now is built on ensuring you stay engaged with it endlessly. Cut that off, and you'll feel better.

You’ll get used to it.

Let's be honest, people who were living in the 50's to about the 90's really had an easy street type of stability in American never to be scene after that. Yes there was the Vietnam war, JFK shot, some gas hikes, but for the most part it was smooth sailing. Living in America was a lot more difficult before and after that time period. A typical family could still survive comfortably on one income, go to college for virtually free, buy houses for what would be equal or less than one year's salary, abundance of food and produce and new technology and hospitals were not privatized for maximum profits. Those were the days.

No. Because the media will never give up the monetization of our doom scrolling. Until we stop doomscrolling.

[quote]. Those were the days.

before Ronald Reagan.

Those were the days. Even back in the 70's people thought the world was going to hell in a hand basket.

R11, were you around? I'm guessing not.

R11, easy street wasn’t “scene” universally. Apart from women, gays, and blacks, it was also a time of huge poverty. Poverty in 1960 was 22 percent, with much of it in the South. It’s now half that.

[quote]I'm tired of living in "interesting times"

Then I'm sure you can comfort in the fact that, as Joni would say, we're all going to die.

Sorry -- "take comfort."