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I’m currently looking for a job, but whenever I hear the news I wonder if I should even bother.
Yes you should LOL JFC go get a job, save money, build your future. You are gonna be middle-aged saying “Why the fuck did I let international politics keep me from getting my shit together??”
I promise you, whatever excuses you’re letting your mind invent to keep you from getting a job are just that, internal validations. Take the reigns, don’t listen to the stories your mind tells you.
I have spent my life hearing stories that the world is ending, that world war 3 is about to happen, that we have no future.
Well it’s now the future, and I dearly, dearly wish the people saying all that actually helped me and others prepare for living as an adult in a world that continues to go on.
Might as well attend protests while you’re looking. Might even be a networking opportunity if you’re friendly enough.
I would imagine many of the protests leading up to WWIII won’t be very friendly.
If it comes, it comes. I have made my peace with the times we live in.
My entire life on Earth, people have been saying “World War 3 is imminent!” and when I was little, it actually was. In my life, I’ve seen an actual face-off between armed super-powers directly threatening each other with total annihilation, and a few times it came very, very close.
We are in a vastly different world now, with new super-powers all for the most part intertwined with each other financially. While what remains of Russia is a real threat, they aren’t the scary monster they used to be, but are still using the same rhetoric and hostility. However, more and more we have learned that they are not the unstoppable “red tide” that will cover the world, they are a struggling, impoverished nation pouring every ounce of their might into capturing one neighboring country with valuable resources, and not showing a lot for it other than a radically reduced male population.
I firmly believe that we are further from World War 3 than we’ve been since the end of World War 2. It’s possible Putin will lose his mind and try to kill the world, but that’s not a “world war” that’s just terrorism, and he won’t have allies joining in, because mostly, everyone wants to live. He knows this too, so all he would be doing is causing a lot of destruction to some countries and total destruction to his own.
