/lit/ - Literature

>>12175637
I think about what it means to be a person in their teens and early twenties, coming into the world as an adult and trying to make sense of it all.
I think about how much the world has changed even since I left mandatory education at 16, and how in 8 years the world is so much different to how I imagined it would be and not for the better.
I think about the different spheres - the economy, environment, society and it appears that across every sphere things appears to be crumbling. Social Media, Austerity and the need for constant 'profit and growth' seem to be tearing countries apart and pitting people against one another. The unthinkable has become to the norm to a point where rather than being outraged we just laugh in despair.
I wonder if the world has always been as openly shitty and chaotic as it appears to be or due to increased interconnectivity and constant stimuli we have merely become aware of it through peering at our screens.
I wonder if i'll look back at this period in time and think whether my pessimistic thoughts towards the future is was me just being a raging faggot or if i'll look back and wonder why I didn't do more to prepare for a life with genuine struggle when the internet gets cut, the power goes and the supermarkets run empty.