What happened to the optimism of the early 2010s? The hope? The dreams? The bright outlook?

What happened to the optimism of the early 2010s? The hope? The dreams? The bright outlook?

Everything's gone to shit since. The closer we end this decade. Pure, unbridled shit. Everything's cynical now. Despondent. Fatalist. Forlorn.

Back then, all those years ago, when something bad happened, an utter and terrible tragedy -- you would be aghast, unnerved, maybe brought to your knees, and probably thought "no, something like this can't happen..." Or along the lines of "that was only one incident; it can't happen again." Now when tragedy strikes, it's brushed off as another day. Fuck, "just another day" is all it feels like.

When misfortune happens to you, or more importantly, to people you care about -- it's no longer surprising. It's now easy to wind up thinking "yeah, sounds about right." Or find that it fits the normal pattern of today's world. Before, when it struck, it never made sense. Too often had they no apparent logic. Repeatedly, they struck in ways that went over your head -- and offered no seeming grasp in reality. The kinds of misfortune that felt so unfair, unnecessary, illogical -- that one of the biggest troubles to stem from them was the conundrum of "how am I expected to handle this crap that I don't have any control over? Especially when I've never done anything to deserve them? What am I supposed to do? Why do I have to suffer this when I have more important obligations to attend to? And how am I supposed to take on hardships that I can't even make sense of?" And now, when misfortune strikes, it feels commonplace and expected; even if no explanations are offered.

And most of all, the amount of wrong people winning power lately. All. Over. The world. Tyrants. Despots. Dictators. Absolute horrors of humanity. When I was a lad, I was brought up under the notion that only good guys win, and bad guys always lose. No exceptions. And now it's flipped. Awful keep winning. While wonderful people, no one cares about.

What fucking happened!?!

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You grew up

I dont know but we should kill normalfags who use Jow Forums lol

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why do you people think in hierarchies?

>optimism of the early 2010s

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Niggers happened

Optimism???

You're retarded

Shitskins

never forget to smile user.NEVER LOSE YOUR SMILE GOD DAMN IT

Were you around in 2010 user? I thought we were in a clown world even then, now we've transcended even that.

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Optimism is for the weak mind idiots who think things Will get better soon

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So pessimism if for smart people who think it can only get worse? You're a retard.

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Optimism is for the strong who know things will get better soon because they're going to make it better.

>What happened to the optimism of the early 2010s?
who was optimist back then, you're delusional

>What happened to the optimism of the early 2010s?
They didn't exist. What in the hell are you talking about?

>What happened to the optimism of the early 2010s? The hope? The dreams? The bright outlook?
There was never any optimism you stupid Ameritard drone.

Ameritards are perverse people and like covering their cynicisim & nihilism with what is depersonalized and easy - political goals like equality and democracy. But social reality will get to you anyway.

Ameritards are so perverse that they think bad conscience can be balanced by cheap political idealism of general slogans. Ameritards believe that you can cover the reality of abortionism, mass divorces, degeneracy and pornography by political slogans of freedum, tolerance, equality.

The reason why life is becoming more cynical is that what is at the foundation of American life - nihilism, cynicism, degeneracy - are finally breeding their consequences.

Democracy, equality, freedom, fighting muh tyrants will not replace conscience, healthy family and sacred sex.

>optimism of the early 2010s
nigga what? anyway, humanity overall don't have a future if it continues to goes on this path. No space travel, no Moon bases, no Mars colonization, everything will go to shit slowly and steady, people will watch how their rights disappear and they will do nothing.

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2013-15 happened

>nigga what?

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I don’t know, but frankly I feel nothing but a hollowness inside of my body. I yearn for death yet I don’t want to just grab the shotgun and suck on the barrel. I’ve been thinking a lot about getting into private contracting and going to a Hell Hole that will basically ensure that I don’t come home alive. I have zero hope in a future for society, myself and humanity. I will never experience that romantic bond of two people they showed on the television. All my friends are falling deeper into darkness as their fast paced, risky life styles are finally catching up to them. Every day a major tragedy literally gets closer to my doorstep. There is no way out.

>muh false dichotomy

>post-9/11
>Optimism
Pick one and only one, underage

This. OP is either underage or a shill implying that those were "the good old days".

Hard men create good times
Good times create soft men < 2010s
Soft men create bad times < now
Bad times create hard men

underage b&

>There is no way out.
Anime and video games

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Or they just... were having a better time of it pre-2013, before they fell down the conspiracy theorist rabbit hole and became miserably "aware" of how bad things really were

>Subhumans actually believe this
No leaf, optimism is for the weak "science will save everyone" bugmen who hold out hope for a savior, pessimism is for the wise who know shit's fucked and want to run away from the world, and tragedy is for the strong, realizing that everything is going to hell, and that one can either fight to preserve something decaying, dragging out the process, or build something new, bringing about the hell they feared. One group will be lauded as "heroes" by future generations, the other as "villains" but those with the tragic outlook of the classical heroes know that very little separates the two.

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Same place the optimism on the late 90's went

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The counterpoint to this is that we're just in a period of long term decline, so for the past few generations it's been correct to observe that the best time was the first time you have an adult memory of

>What happened to the optimism of the early 2010s
You thought there was optimism? Nigger, that's been dead since 9/11. Thankfully, whites are starting to wake up to what's going on in this country and (((who))) is causing it.

Even those are becoming lack luster

Congratulations on turning 14 m8. The world fucking sucks.

>And most of all, the amount of wrong people winning power lately. All. Over. The world. Tyrants. Despots. Dictators. Absolute horrors of humanity.
like who?

I don't know how you can say that when practically every anime and show in recent times is more of stuff from the past (sequel series, remakes, reboots), so you'd think it would be a great time to indulge in them.

By the end of this year I can basically recreate days of my youth with recreations of the media i loved back then

>crash team racing HD
>medievil HD
>FFVII Remake
>remake of fruits basket
all they need to do now is start re-releasing old food products, like Coke is doing with New Coke again. bring back purple ketchup and give me a remake of The Phantom Menace and i'm set

They brought back Crystal Pepsi last year.

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If you’re not trolling then you’re a stupid fag

It's surprisingly tasty but I am shocked it's 2019 and we still don't have something that works the same as sugar but doesn't leave slime in your throat.

Maybe I need more than just cheap laughs and junk, I'm not a kid anymore man.

This. Get off the board you underage faggot

Remember you guys are free to do almost whatever you want. Don't mind trap yourselves

You're thinking of "enjoying things" as "cheap laughs and junk", there's your first issue. Your cynical unhappy brain is telling you to give up at even enjoying things you used to enjoy?

You've got it exactly backwards. The last few years have been endlessly refreshing and invigorating.

Maybe, it definitely doesn't bring me much happiness anymore.

So what brings you happiness?

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I used to drink that shit all the time back in the day and when they brought it back last year I drank it like it was 1993 again.

Dont listen to the kike leaf trying to sell you sugar cereal and video games. Lift weights, shoot guns, grow crops, raise a family. Get ready.

I live in the city so I can't do much of that, also I'm pretty sure I'm never going to have a family.
Knowing that I'm going to die soon.

Did you even read that guy's post? Do you seriously think they are gonna do all of that shit? What kind of doomer wants to bring KIDS into a world like this?

>I live in the city
Found your problem. Get the fuck out of that shithole before it's too late user. Seriously, just leave. Oil companies hire roustabouts and well hands with no experience for $70,000 a year working one week on one week off. Do that, save money, buy property.

>You're not being shot at on a massive battlefield at the moment
You should be VERY happy and optimistic compared to a few generations ago.
Yes. The world sucks. No, it was never great. All you can do is try to make it just a little bit better for the next generation.

I didn't and dont care to. Doomers are just people who haven't been shown the light yet. Stop trying to make it worse.

>suggesting they find enjoyment in something as simple as a nostalgic cereal or franchise is "making it worse"
worse than feeling hollow inside? how do you figure?

This. 9/11 was a watershed moment for the west. Doesn't matter how old you are, we all felt a little lustre in our culture die that day.

I’ve already got an obligation, I can’t leave for a while.

>cereal and cartoon nostalgia
>not hollow
You've got to be fucking kidding

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well don't watch fucking rick and morty or do this every single day. i was suggesting something small they could do to feel better not become a fucking mindless NPC who doesn't actually gain any joy from any of that stuff in the picture

>1 post by this id
optimism? where were you??
the economy died in the last quarter of 2007. It has been dead cat bounce ever since
clearly your post suggests you are either a troll or a youngfag, so listen up from an oldfag millennial
stuff is not coming back. you were set adrift into a vortex at a young age.
prior to 2007, a college degree had value, and all the years that preceded it, recession or not.
the old millennials (me) were the first to get destroyed, but it never stopped. the entire millennial generation was flushed, and now that is continuing with you zoomers and is not going to stop because the problems are systemic
the only reason the flush did not happen earlier was because of credit/debt expansion and money printing. the TARP bailouts screwed the economy bad and set it into perpetual decline.
that is why you are in the sitution you are, and lots more with you

2006 and 2007 certainly were some crazy years.

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Keep telling yourself that. Nostalgia is a weapon used to recruit, not to placate or satisfy. user needs meaning and purpose, not lotus flowers to eat. Enjoy your sugar cereal.

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I will, enjoy hating everything all the time.

I dont hate everything. I love my life. I hate yours.

you know literally nothing about me except that i enjoy products which existed in my youth. fuck off dude.

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Stan, why are you so mad?

>I’ve already got an obligation
What, a stock bonus? The stock might lose half it's value in the next year. Besides, they are going to keep giving you those delayed "bonuses" over and over because it tricks cuck slaves into slaving away forever.
>well I would like to quit, but it's another three years before my stocks vest! Oh wait, they just gave me more delayed stocks instead of cash...
Yeah, don't be one of those idiots.

>Implying I’ll ever work a normal job.
No thanks, been there done that. I only like doing jobs that has a risk of someone killing me now. If I cared about money I wouldn’t be talking to you people.

This. it was a global Recession if you were an actual adult it sucked ass.

>optimism
>early 2010
>scripted tl;dr text
>anime
SUMMER

IS

HERE

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Thanks Obama

Grow the fuck up animecuck. Convert to Judaism and join the JIDF.