When I vent my frustration on the futility and nihilism of modern life to my dad he reminds me his job was to drop nukes and still dreams it
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He also came to believe my mothers frequent miscarriages (6) were a punishment from god for some unseen role he played in nuclear war.
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It just goes to show, as much as we say fuck boomers (and rightfully so) each generation has their own eldritch horror they face alone.
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My greatest fear is that ours will become normalized, fade into the background of everyday life. Their will be no fantastic failed coup...
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That signals the end of our long struggle. That our children will grow up with this horrific...thing we all deal with. This alienation trap
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Because at the end of the day a nuclear crisis is infinitely easier to identify and fight than the slowly metastasizing moral cancer we face
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It's easy to say no to nuclear war. Dysgenic and societal decay is infinitely more seductive and easy. It grooms its own disciples.
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What we face now is infinitely more organic and seductive than nuclear war. It spreads virally via trauma, inducing acolytes via suffering
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My father comforts me saying "look at me son, I too faced the dragon, and lo! I have defeated it" it gives me some comfort.
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But dad, I really hate to say it, but I don't think we can slay this dragon. I don't think I'll be able to say the same to my son.
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We've all been consumed. We're all living in the belly of the dragon. And I suppose the only way out is through.
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