Does any one else feel..

[azekeil]

..that everything we do is ultimately futile? I don't mean in the sense that we die of old age, and the problem that ancient civilisations struggled with in their sense of impermanence, I mean in the sense that the economy is collapsing, peak oil is just around the corner, climate change is practically inevitable, politics seems to only get worse not better, wars, famine and exploitation still exist, each successive generation appears to have access to worse education and that the day-to-day work we do is so abstracted from any of these fundamental issues that it all just seems unreal.

This isn't supposed to be a negative post, I just.. am finding it hard to justify our way of existence given the above. And the biggest irony is that tomorrow I will go in to work, put this all to the back of my mind and continue performing my ultimately futile role.

Comments

[nemy.livejournal.com]

civilizations come and go. This one is no better or worse than the rest. It may fall over but another will take its place.

I suppose surely you should ask yourself what would be useful "work" (your definition)?

However if you see the human race as ultimately useless then start asking yourself what would something better than humans look like?

Music and art make me happy. I also think that simple things like human company and love are pretty worthy in the scheme of things (to me at least).

Hey its a consumer culture isnt it. Just pick the small little bits you like and move on.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Yes but it's the falling over that worries me and leaves me feeling that putting effort into this one is ultimately futile.. so really this sounds like you're agreeing with me?

I don't think I (or any number of others) could do much to usefully prevent or reverse this.. so I guess tooling up on self-sufficiency skills would be the next best thing.

The simple pleasures are good, yes. But they don't stop me worrying about the not so simple problems.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Who knows?

Also, I'm not familiar with Doghouse or Spooks.