With the exception of climate change, most of these issues have always existed to varying degrees, you’re just constantly bombarded by the news of it now. Block all news sites and communities for a few weeks and see how you feel. I promise you will miss nothing. Anything important enough will slip through your filters online or in the real world.

Now check this out, we’re seeing meaningful movement towards fair wages in places like California, and pretty much the entire world, across every industry is on strike this year. That’s not bad news, that’s great news! It means that people have been pushed too far and are finally pushing back.

Everyone gives the Boomers shit for problems they presumably created, but they were fucking active in politics as kids, man. They were constantly out protesting, fighting for improvements and changes. As a result their kids and grandkids had things pretty great for most of their lives and were complacent. That complacency led to companies and governments seeing how far they could push the limits and they’ve found those limits. People are fighting back now.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

–Frederick Douglas