#theworldisending

[mischeifmaneged]

The way whenever ao3 is down the whole of Tumblr is somehow notified

[ilostyou]

anyway im the kind of tired that makes me feel sad in a theworldisending everythingisover kinda way so. no 911 for me tonight i should probably already be asleep tbh

[wayyykool]

Confession Regarding Recent Events.

The rumors are true. Im a little tumbling boy. I bounce around the walls and sniff the ceiling. I love to float in the air and snoore really really loudly. When I get ANGRY, I scream FUCKELSTEIN. #bitchboss #girl #halflife #UKButt #sexmod #theworldisending

[povyoureinmybrain]

Lorde makes me think like I'm on Pure Heroine

This is my official dissertation on the evolution of Lorde and how she became a satirist and absolutely CONSUMED MY BRAIN.

In Liability by Lorde she says, “they’re all going to watch me disappear into the sun” and I saw a tiktok the other day saying that in this new album she talks about the beauty of stepping into the sun and how she realized that maybe some of the scariest/loneliest roads we take in life are the ones that will make us the happiest and most fulfilled.

What I think this creator is talking about is that she used wellness culture to cultivate her new self and her new music. However, although at surface level this may be the case, I do believe that Lorde is a satirist and intentional or not this was all a part of her plan…. The plot always THICKENS.

Spiritual and wellness social media accounts often glamorize the state of enlightenment, and that life can be peaceful and that you won’t have problems, but that��s literally IMPOSSIBLE and I think the subtle art of not giving a fuck puts it well. It reads “therefore our problems are recursive and unavoidable: the person you marry is the person you fight with, the house you buy is the house you repair, the dream job you take is the job you stress over. Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice, whatever makes us feel good will also inevitably make you feel bad, what we gain is also what you lose, what creates our positive experiences will define our negative experiences. And this is a difficult pill to swallow, we like the idea that there’s some form of ultimate happiness that can be attained, we like the idea that we can feel fulfilled and satisfied with our lives, we like the idea that we can alleviate all our sufferings permanently, but we cannot! If I ask you, what do you want out of life and you say something like I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like, your response is so common and doesn’t mean anything. Everyone enjoys what feels good, everyone wants to live carefree, easy and happy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships that look perfect and make money and be popular and well respected and admired. Everybody wants that and it’s easy to want that. But a more interesting question is what pain do you want in your life” what pain are you willing to experience alongside all the happy things you want. And I truly think Lorde discovered that.

Although I do believe that Lorde’s break from social media allowed her to fully fall into wellness, through that journey she realized just how ridiculous and “whatever you’d call a person that can’t read the room” Wellness truly is. The whole lead up to the album release and the album itself truly pertains to that.

In the leadup to the album release, there was a “leaked” piece of Solar Power. I don’t think that this was accidental, it was a Marketing Strategy.  She used the media and how she understands it to play the part in how her album was to be perceived. To gain traction…

Lorde believes that social media is insane and how we use it to get all our information is insane, it literally rots our brains.

Not only is the song Mood Ring a satire but the title ITSELF. The way she says “plants and celebrity news are the vitamins I consume” – because we’re all mindful and trying to take care of ourselves yet we literally live for ENews and celebrity gossip which is obviously bad for you. The contradiction is what makes it satire. She goes on to say “I want to go away” like to the east and “love and light” she’s literally satire-ing on how people think these superficial things can help them find themselves. And how they market wellness is that doing these things is not only good for yourself but good for the people around you… however we are also conscious of the implications of us traveling to mostly eastern countries. OR EVEN MOOD RINGS THEMSELVES – they were probably mined by kids who get paid less than peanuts just for you to say that you’re “spiritual” or whatever the f you think it makes you.

Truly it is so scary that the most conscious minds about economic imbalance, climate change, social injustice are the same minds that promote over consumption, and just exist in a patriarchy happily.

In conclusion this really has nothing to do with Lorde herself but rather how perplex the brain is… I AM A CONFUSED BEING…. My brain hurts and I would like to cry…. but not for too long because there are worse things happening in the world and I am lucky to be alive.

P.S. Ignorance is bliss and If you’re too open minded you’ll blow your brains out!

[swansonlikestowrite]

What a Waste

God! I feel like a fucking waste! (that’s a positive intro) This is the first thing I have written for enjoyment in months, I’m not even writing it for enjoyment I’m writing this because I feel like I must. This is supposed to be my job! Everything feels futile, the world is ending, we’re gonna burn to death, or get shot, or get cancer and die a slow painful death (if we’re lucky). All I have is a creative outlet but I’m not even content enough in any of my creative outlets to pursue them. I’m not content in them because the world is fucking ending. Nothing matters and yet, because of this, EVERYTHING matters. I feel like I’m too late to create and live off of it but oh my god I don’t know if I could live with myself if I didn’t. It feels like my entire life leans on luck, something which I don’t seem to have much of. I think of every decision I make over and over and over again, I seem to be a different person with different dreams every single day, nothing is consistent, I’m running away from myself, and I don’t even know why. I’m escaping my own fears but that’s what’s making me scared. I’m scared of being scared but almost everything scares me. Don’t take that the wrong way, I’m not weak. I can handle my shit, I just don’t want to. I’m lazy and uncreative, but I want to be energized and creative. I’m fighting against my inhibitions every day. I’m built to tear myself down it seems. Nothing works, nothing sticks but I’m trying so hard to make them stick. I feel so mediocre, I want to set myself up for “greatness” or whatever the fuck, but I make choices that make me comfortable and I’m way too comfortable in mediocrity. I have a list of sentences and phrases in my phone called “words that sound good together”, I’ve been making this list for about a year and a half now… I haven’t used it once. Not to make a single song, not to write a single essay, not to implement in a single drawing. I feel like I’m constantly playing catch up with everyone around me who just ooze creativity and artistic skill on accident. They do things because they feel called to, I do things because I feel obligated (just like this essay). I guess what I’m trying to say is, the weight of the world is crushing me but the weight of my expectations is crushing me more.

[sleepycharlyy]

with koffdrop

[emerald-studies]

Bernie is a chaotic good badass

[the-lone-wolf-survived]

Since corona has happened everyone is mad about being quarantined while I am here like bro that's every single desi girl's whole life!!!

[ritalinbarbie]

Anyone else suffer from a crippling depression that spawns exastentialism about how the world is ending and there are so many injustices and how no matter what you do as one person there will always be another person to undermine your work and then another person who will just tell you that you are silly for feeling upset about what the other person said because always having someone to put you down is just how the world works...

Needless to say I’m getting ready to lie face down on the floor right now...

[ragarza]

The Myth of Startup Investing

Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) in Alice in Wonderland

The first question I would ask myself if I see a dude who’s 27 years old and not a self made billionaire writing this would be: why in heaven is he talking about startup investing?

But the truth is that the lie they’ve told us is that nobody has a criterion, that only the self made billionaires or “angel investors” know what they’re talking about.

That’s the biggest lie we’ve heard.

At a time when apps and social media take up most of our attention span, and therefore our energy, we fall into the culture of burnout for doing absolutely nothing. Its as if only by virtue of belonging to this generation we are automatically conditioned to become numb and permissive.

How do people get away with madness nowadays? How do people and leadership get away with insults, single-handed authoritarian actions?

Because we don’t care.

Gone are the days when “going with the flow” or “Gone with the Wind” take us to some acceptable and comfortable haven. Going with the flow nowadays is akin to what before would be called the “Wikipedia black hole” that is, the days when we would go through article after article catalyzed by our own thirst for knowledge.

Nowadays, it seems like, we give in to this cascade of pseudo news on Facebook. Nowadays, we don’t have the attention span to read a full article not to mention the energy!

Burnout by Getty Images

Remember those days when people used to read books? I’m already seeing some eye rolling here as the guy writing this article pretends to be an intellectual or “well-read” person but the author, let me tell you, as any other millennial, knows he falls into this rabbit hole too, quite often mind you.

The resistance to technology has always been the same. What will it do to us? Why meet it with fear as opposed to excitement? And the answer to these questions inevitably borders with ambiguity. To what extent should we embrace technology? - Is met by, what technology is beneficial for what and when?

What I’m advocating for here is not for the return to those days when we would play with rocks and kindle fire on a cave to eat some raw meat, YUMMY 😋! No, what I’m advocating for here is awareness.

Yuck, comes that psychological and boring term, that term these “enlightened” scientists and researchers use in their esoteric papers and articles, which we don’t read anymore! Why? Because we don’t respect studied people anymore. Gone are the days when we respect the intellectual authority as knowledge becomes presumably democratized (thanks Google). Nowadays, nobody knows more than the other because knowledge is no longer proprietary or hardly acquired (see Tesla’s patent giveaway).

Bare with me, it seems like I’m trying to get “somewhere”, to a “conclusion” or to some “value judgment of the human condition”.

But that’s not fun, so don’t hold your breath.

The question we face now is, how are humans adapting to these technologies and how are we deciding to evolve with them?

That brings me to the subject matter.

A few years ago, I predicted a bust. A moment when the world realized the ginormous Ponzi Scheme-like Silicon Valley model. Some people call it the “Pump and Dump” model. That is, you start a company, you make it sexy or popular, then you “raise” (ask for) money at a bigger valuation (overpriced estimation of how much your company is worth) and then you sell it to the highest bidder (the dumbest bidder).

Today, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that Soft Bank’s Vision Fund, the visionary (mind the pun) Masayoshi Son’s venture capital fund, is running out of cash. Meaning, this fund, which asks investors for their money to allegedly invest it into the “next big thing” is almost done spreading the money (or the powder as those private equity guys like to call it). The model works only if there’s a higher bidder when they sell their stake (or equity) in these companies. Because let’s be real, these companies (like Uber) don’t plan to make any money any time soon, insofar they continue to raise money from “investors” (I put it in quotations as almost anybody hearing the word investor presumes they are smart. I’ve got news for you, you’ve got $5 dollars in your bank? You can be an investor! See Stash).

“Wall Street Executive Accused of Scheming to Defraud Investors of $95M” (from ABCNews)

But what happens “after the music stops”? As Alan Blinder titles his book on the 2008 crisis. Well, investors will want their money back! But these funds would have to sell their stakes. If there’s a flash sale (end of season sale), suddenly there will be a lot of merchandise out there! Prices fall. What then, what then will these little investors do?

Panic.

And we go on and on and on about these assumptions about the future as if I am some sort of visionary (like Masayoshi 🤣) and knew what the hell I’m talking about.

No, what’s actually happening, in my opinion, is that with the advent of digital globalization, we all know more, we all have access to more, we can all invest in more (see crowdfunding) and therefore we are all the same! But there’s another kick to it: barriers to entry fall (like those Harvard Business School people like to talk 🤓, I went to the University of Illinois in Urbana, I couldn’t tell between a kernel of corn and a book).

Therefore, the biggest myth they told us about startup investing, is that we’ll find the next monopoly (like Facebook, Google, Tinder 😏), myth because, without anymore barriers to entry, there cannot by any more Googles!!

In light of wanting to please and end this article with some sort of conciliatory, heartwarming and cohesive conclusion I will say what follows:

We cannot judge the future by the past because that only makes sense when things don’t change. The truth is that the future will and continue to look much different than the past at a much faster pace. See Andrew McAfee’s Second Machine Age as a framework of how the economy as we know it is inevitably changing, also see Aeon Flux, if anything you’ll get to see Charlize Theron at her best 😍. Gone will be the times when we go to our 9-5pm job, mow our lawn and kiss our wives (or husbands) goodbye. In comes the time when our own sense of validity in the economy will be put into the question as working, in many ways, becomes irrelevant.

Barney’s Beach Party from Barney Wiki

So what do I advocate for? I advocate for people traveling, having fun, meeting other people and drinking coffee by the sea. I advocate for people to embrace the waves of the second machine age, to advance their inner most desires to the benefit of humankind. I advocate for awareness in what we do and why we do it. Because frankly speaking, falling on the victim mentality because we can’t stay away from our phones is just our excuse to shy away from this Brave New World (see Aldous Huxley).

Let’s stop idolizing these investors, billionaires, technologists and instead, start utilizing what they have created to expand our minds in ways previously unimaginable 😲...

[giovanaharris202]

You know its serious when I come up here. Like literally what the ACTUAL FUCK. TELLTALE GAMES IS REALLY FUCKING ME IN THE ASS RIGHT NOW. I can’t say good-bye not yet. Why is everything ending

[imaslutforthegreenmnm]

But abt the issue with my girl green rn.

WHY?!?!?! WHY DID MARS INCORPERATED GET RID OF HER AWESOME BOOTS... FOR FEMINISIM? ARE THEY SAYING YOU CANT BE A BAD BITCH FEMINIST IF YOU WEAR AWESOME BOOTS???? I AM ANGRY... WHORES HAVE FEELINGS TOO!!!

[420techno]

Just read that Rachel “I wanna be black so bad” Dolezal is officially on OnlyFans. So y’all gonna ban porn and drive all your subscribers away???? lol nice

[spiderdudeposts]

We had quite the weird sky yesterday evening, my first thought was the world was ending 😂 #weirdsky #theworldisending #orangesky #eveningshot #eveningcolors https://www.instagram.com/p/CLrrLkgnHKU/?igshid=7iefuqyxsl5n

[disneyscoop]

That explains 2020! #Disney #DisneyMemes #HappyNewYear #Covid #theworldisending #disneylove #Maleficent #BlueFairy https://www.instagram.com/p/CGUatUkHtq9/?igshid=1is6ie16htprb