2012 is Over, but the World is Still Ending

[monkey!]

Nacho's mum is an underwater volcano.

[nacho]

Monkey's back!

OLTF!

[Nubbins]

CANCELLED!

[monkey!]

CANCELLED!

I've already cancelled all over your facey, Spacey... hard.

[monkey!]

You faggots all dead?

[nacho]

I LIVE!

[monkey!]

But at what cost?

[nacho]

Jesus... It feels like the cost was too high.

[monkey!]

Jesus... It feels like the cost was too high.

[drama gopher]

[Nubbins]

Every time this thread gets bumped, I lol that we ever thought 2012 was like... peak end of the world times.

[nacho]

Every time this thread gets bumped, I lol that we ever thought 2012 was like... peak end of the world times.

There's a discussion here about the low grade fear (and high grade fear-mongering) we've all suffered from since 2001.

[monkey!]

Every time this thread gets bumped, I lol that we ever thought 2012 was like... peak end of the world times.

There's a discussion here about the low grade fear (and high grade fear-mongering) we've all suffered from since 2001.

Meanwhile in Europe... those damned commies are at it again.

[nacho]

You know...with all these random shootings of fucking children and teenagers and random people who walk on the wrong side of the sidewalk or whatever, I'm really starting to think seriously about that fortified compound in the woods. Every morning walk I take I see someone freaking out -- like walking into traffic, beating on cars freaking out. This morning  watched one guy cross through four lanes of busy traffic. An SUV guns it and wings him and he starts pounding on the windows (traffic was crawling). And I'll see a freakout like this again today when I walk to happy hour. I'm always seeing this now. Like everyone is living on a knife edge and the last three years have cooked all of our brains.

I live in Poshville where nothing ever happens and I'm scared. I can't imagine what America outside the Beltway is doing. It looks like it's all on fire! 

[monkey!]

You know...with all these random shootings of fucking children and teenagers and random people who walk on the wrong side of the sidewalk or whatever, I'm really starting to think seriously about that fortified compound in the woods. Every morning walk I take I see someone freaking out -- like walking into traffic, beating on cars freaking out. This morning  watched one guy cross through four lanes of busy traffic. An SUV guns it and wings him and he starts pounding on the windows (traffic was crawling). And I'll see a freakout like this again today when I walk to happy hour. I'm always seeing this now. Like everyone is living on a knife edge and the last three years have cooked all of our brains.

I live in Poshville where nothing ever happens and I'm scared. I can't imagine what America outside the Beltway is doing. It looks like it's all on fire! 

Embrace the falling of dusk, Nacho.

[RottingCorpse]

Nobody freaks out in the sticks except the random, "I'm going to shoot my wife because she fucked Jethro" horseshit that's always been happening.

Though I get you on the knife's edge of freak-out everybody's under. Death throes of modern civilization will do that, I guess? Everybody's in fight or flight mode.

I'll say the more I unplug, the happier I am. Though I'm lucky. For now I'm gainfully employed in my small rural town where 90% of what's important happens in a 30 miles radius. I have the luxury of ignoring Ukraine, bank collapses, mass shootings (until one happens here I guess), political nonsense, and the sale of the Washington NFL team. I have my Post subscription, but treat it like fan fiction. The crossword section gets the hardest workout.

Make no mistake, I never forget the small town Elysian bliss I live in is an illusion perpetuated by local leaders who are putting their heads in the sand. But all the existential terror is beyond my control, and the older i get the easier it is to not worry about things I can't influence. Is that nihilism?