‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men
And all the warning they get is a random guardian article in the slew of media rain.<p>This society is completely broken. My craving to return to the 1980s and 1990s is just getting worse and worse.<p>We replaced so many functioning structures with an ocean of mirages.<p>I legitmately have not seen an adult man who looks and acts like an authority figure should, in about fifteen years.<p>I literally cannot take 90% of &#x27;authorities&#x27; seriously. Their advice is self-serving and just telling the truth about circumnstances is enough to end the conversation and burn out emotions, never mind getting to the point in the conversation where an informed decision could be made.<p>Discipline in the management structure used to be the backbone of society, now every level is scheming for themselves, and breaking the structure to get there. Or just low effort incompetence, understandable in the chaos. Or just friends killing time, promoting friends and family.<p>Everybody&#x27;s here today, gone tomorrow in commitment and planning and structuring some jobs is a chaotic nightmare.<p>People keep leaning harder and harder into tech to ASSERT authority. Not a gosh darn soul in this country actually believes or cares what their phones&#x2F;scheduling system tells them. The apps update every few weeks anyway and we can all sense the impending global lockdown coming, so why bother.<p>And in this chaos we have to commit to literally any woman, have kids and a house and gamble our lives on the churn.<p>Society used to be predictable and rational, now the media has gone to the dogs, the &#x27;adults in the room&#x27; are not believable and are pushing more tech tyranny.<p>There&#x27;s literally nobody to turn to. Grifts and false hope is virulent. Churches just want you to do their thing, with zero practical application in the short term. The media is a total clusterF.<p>The compassion from the comfortable families is a dismissive band aid, so they can go back to ignoring reality.<p>If I were younger I&#x27;d join the military just for the permenant sense of order.<p>Now don&#x27;t mind me, I&#x27;m going to waste another 6 months battling C++ without anything to show for it, because solving some small tech problems is my best bet at keeping my sanity and providing a sense of achievement, that I &lt;insert real name here&gt; did something that was believable and good, before I lost it all to government and time.<p>All people want from a regular joe, is to control him. Literally everyone and their dog gives their condemnation and their gut reaction as &#x27;advice&#x27;. Then if you don&#x27;t immediately comply, it&#x27;s taken as sufficient reason to ignore you.<p>Life hurts and then you die. Where is the children in that?<p><i>waves my countries&#x27; flag sardonically</i>