The golden age has passed. There are no innovations in the realms of technology; only superfluous increases in speed and decreases in size.
The human population continues to grow at an unrelenting pace, mercilessly ousting out hundreds of thousands of other species in its insatiable greed.
Unemployment shall only grow, as machines do our jobs faster, with more precision, and more cheaply.
The creatives are stunted by business; CEOs demanding that they create profit, rather than create truly inspiring experiences.
People who seek change are few in number, weak in power, and are quickly crushed, or simply ignored, or are fed false hope and false sympathies.
Media controls our perceptions of beauty. And people- in their natural drive to find that special someone- pay money to more businesses in order to do horrific things to their bodies as they chase an ever-changing and unattainable ideal.
Those who do end up together all too often swiftly fall apart. Victims of a Liberal society seeking to normalise promiscuity. Taking good intentions of equality for all sexes and warping it into sex for everyone whenever and wherever with whomever.
Can't live anywhere because rent is too high and houses are too expensive.
Can't earn the money for them because we can't get work.
Can't get work because machines are replacing us, work is being outsourced to poorer countries (where they work for peanuts, so they're not much better off despite having the jobs we want), people already working are not retiring because they can't afford to, and work in the creative fields is still tightly controlled by money, and is being supersaturated into a generic slog of recycled ideas at an alarming rate.
Can't have a relationship because they are becoming increasingly superficial- with people taking people at surface value; valuing only surface value, and further increasing our dime-a-dozen status as simple meat on the market shelf.
Can't innovate in media because nobody wants it. They simply desire more of the same because that's what people tell them they want.
Can't innovate in technology because we have reached a cap, the age of invention stalled to nothing more than increases in computational power for the past 30 years.
People still have religion, and continue to kill each other for the dumbest fucking shit. If not belief, than because of the oil, and other exploitable resources. Ultimately- money.
More money to rule over more people.
So go ahead and buy that lotto ticket. It's closest to reality that hope will ever get.
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So.
Feeling inspired?
If you are. Don't bother. It won't get anywhere. Just die.
It's where we all end up anyways.