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A few minutes on Twitter is enough to think the world is quickly coming to an end.
That's funny. You barely started on Twitter and it already got to you.
It's funny how people who currently live are always the ones who think they are somehow special and that during their times the world is about to end.
The world isn't burning. F*ck man, despite some bumps along the way we're living in the best times ever. Just take a look at REAL "the world is burning" kind of periods in the past.
Imagine being born in 1900 and being a teenager during WW1, surviving the Spanish Flu, and then being an adult during WW2 (and dealing with the aftermath for the rest of your life). This is literal hell on Earth, for your ENTIRE life.
Or imagine living in the 17th century in Germany during the Thirty Years' War where up to 50% of people died. That war took THREE DECADES which means for many people all they knew their entire adult life was war.
Or how about the Black Death in the 14th century that reduced the European population by up to 60%? Imagine that in just a few years, every other person you know dies. I can't even imagine the scale of this destruction.
And that's just a few examples from Europe out of countless examples of terrible periods in the last several hundred years.
Our lives today and the problems we have are A F*ckING JOKE. Frankly, it's almost disrespectful to complain about the state of the world today compared to these terrible aforementioned periods of time.