I think the last time the Internet really felt magical to me was in the early months of COVID lockdowns, being on a forced holiday from college, listening to weird music, reading deranged texts on Anarchist Library and marxists.org and staying up late at n

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Anonymous 01-09-25 01:44:20 No.705538

I think the last time the Internet really felt magical to me was in the early months of COVID lockdowns, being on a forced holiday from college, listening to weird music, reading deranged texts on Anarchist Library and marxists.org and staying up late at night in the air conditioned darkness of my bedroom refreshing places like /collapse/ feeling the giddy excitement of what seemed to my naive still-young mind like a clear turning point in the history of Western politics. I was kind of right about that part but not in the way I wanted to be.
Every political space feels bleak now and non-political spaces feel stale and almost insincere in their "niceness". "Content" platforms like YouTube still turn out some intriguing stuff once in a while but not really at a reliable rate. I can't find that sense of a marching exciting zeitgeist anymore anywhere. I don't know if I just got out of touch (probably, right) or if the last few years of global politics have exposed the naiveté and sickness in the youthful experience of viewing the "real world" as entertainment. I don't even know why I made this thread, but it's siberia so who cares.

Anonymous 01-09-25 02:14:59 No.705543

I wasn't that young when 2020 happened and I'm obviously even older now but the events of that year and some of the following year felt kind of refreshing like something new and better was going to happen but it didn't. Instead more of the same but worse. I guess the jig was when old Joe won the election and it just got bleaker from there. I wish we could go back to 2020 because it felt like the last "good" year. I actually think it was better than the previous decade but what followed seems much worse and is only going to keep getting worse. Although honestly it's not too bad at the moment but every day I feel like the boot is about to come crashing down and all I'm doing is biding my time.

Anonymous 01-09-25 02:39:02 No.705546

>>705543
I think that's exactly how most of us feel looking back. It was a confluence of moments and opportunities that seemed to really signal a change in the way most people view politics and the world. It's not like we were ever on the cusp of a revolution but it felt like entire new worlds had become possible. It felt like good things were allowed to happen, that the world could become genuinely better than it was. I haven't felt that way since even once and like you said it feels like we're just stuck waiting for the powder keg to go off.

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