Whereas previous economic shocks such as the oil crisis of 1973 caused a temporary dip in fertility, the 2007-2008 banking meltdown was different because birth rates continued to decline even after the economy started growing again, says to Daniele Vignoli, professor of demography at the University of Florence in Italy. He believes the turbulence a decade and a half ago marks the point at which people’s uncertainty about the future began to take hold.
The world is burning, wars are raging, microplastics in our bodies, fascist are gaining power, depression is a staple for internet culture.
I don’t know what it could be. /s
all i can afford is a 2 room apartment. Not 2 bedroom. 2 room. Where am I supposed to put a kid?
You know that passing wish for the future to come as a kid when you first saw a cyberpunk movie or show?
The cyberpunk future is here
All of thr dystopia, none of the cool tech or aesthetics. Where’s the bands of cyborg augmented jacked-in cyberpunks on hoverbikes? Where’s the holograms and cyberdecks and the Net? Where’s the robotic power armor and edgy neon and sleek titanium and carbon fiber? If we’re gonna go full dystopia at least give us the aestherics for crying out loud!
Dude, think about it for a moment. Even if they come up with all that cool stuff, are you sure you wanna plug that shit into your body?
It’s hilarious how I grew up loving cyberpunk like Ghost in the Shell. Thought I’d want to be a cool cyborg. Nope, I’m like Togusa, the dude with no cybernetics and refusing to get any.
Fascists are gaining power because the left could not offer a viable response to the majority concerns. And it sounds like what’s left of it is just giving up unfortunately.
Fascists are gaining power because they are put there by radicalizing conservatives and businesses in particular media businesses consolidating their power and happily pushing fascist propaganda to sow divide among poor people. Also it distracts from the perpetuators of problems, by giving scapegoats.
The left has plenty viable responses. It is just that they cannot lie about the world changing and requiring to adapt. Something fascists and their conservative enablers happily lie about and the worse it gets the more they brainwash people into blaming the left, the green, the immigrants, the jews, anybody but the businesses and politicians destroying the world for some more profit.
What you are saying is not wrong, but it can also be true that the left is quite divided and lacks a narrative which can be convincing to the same working class the left aims to empower. In fact, the left got quite disconnected from the working class on a number of issues. The lie may be easier to make convincing, but the truth has some advantages too. In fact, some talking points of the right, like the anti-elite sentiment, are straight out of the left playbook. Why did the left not manage to deliver this point better?
