It's the end of the world, why bother?

Trust and believe me when I say this will not be the last time I discuss this topic – and I will bring it back to movies at the end!

In the past few days, quite a few things have "scared" everyone. A strain of Hantavirus threatens to spread human to human with a high mortality rate; the UK local elections (on the surface) seem to signal a rise of the Far-Right extremist party Reform to power at the next general election (which is 3 years away mind you), Bezos' Met Gala went off without an issue, signalling....something terrible, i'm sure; and Google Chrome has been installing local AI models on everyone's computers without permission.

There's even more upcoming – the Iran War is about to cause the biggest disruption to Oil and Trade Routes perhaps ever, a super El Niño is predicted, which will dramatically raise the temperature of the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean "that can affect global weather patterns for months", and many countries around the world, through this, are going to have to fight their own versions of Reform from harming their neighbors – if they aren't already 🇺🇸.

These are all terrible things. Terrible things that the media is not incentivised to provide you with solutions for.

As I've studied the current global Powermongers over the last few years, it's become increasingly clear that they are part of a death cult – whether they notice it or not. Their "bullish realism" and complete belief in the markets have locked them off from creative solutions to global and local economic and environmental problems. In this regard, a neglect of the Arts and Humanities, and perhaps a complete disregard of education altogether, has made this class of people completely unable to think. Think outside the system, think outside of a prescribed future, or even introspect enough to ask why they think this way.

This is why so many people's first instinct is to psychoanalyse – I say, dearest aficionados, we don't have time for analysis. These Powermongers are driving us off a cliff, and they want to go down with us; dare I say their impulse against creative thought is bordering on suicidal in its lack of care.

I first realised this in the early governmental responses to COVID in the Western world. At the time, I looked to the East, which had been economically devastated by epidemics in the past, and I wondered why our governments did not even pretend to care as much about us. I knew why in theory, but I could also see why their lack of care would plunge us into economic ruin – our workforce would be decimated, and the population's health so ravaged that the NHS would break under the weight. For some of them, this is the goal – but if they would just think – one step further than they always do - they'd realise that a broken and privatised NHS would lead to a broken and impoverished nation, which means a completely decimated workforce and no country to rule over.

Oh, but UMNIA, you say, AI!

AI cannot yet serve you a coffee, make meals, deliver the final mile of your Amazon Package, fix your plumbing, or correctly wire your house so you don't electrocute yourself. These rich Powermongers enjoy beautiful lives of convenience – if they continue to decimate your country in the way they're doing, they will have no one to make their lives convenient, and no environment worth living in.

We must come to terms with the fact that this class of people are not intelligent. They're not wise, they have no clue about how the world works – if they did, we wouldn't be here.

This is what provides me with motivating action – these people in power are not smart. Their ideas are not rational.

However, what I cannot get over is the complete lack of COPING that I'm seeing. I understand we live in interesting times, but whenever anyone goes online to share rational information, people say they're fear-mongering. Anytime someone asks people to take an action to change things, everyone starts Bean Souping a reason why they, specifically, cannot do said thing.

I fear the lack of creativity in our Powermongers has leeched into the rest of the world. Without adequate imagination, most of us are resigned to a future that has been decided by very unintelligent people. We're letting people who do not know what they're doing tell us what is going to happen next.

I've never trusted the British Media – they are not incentivised to tell me if last night was a victory for the burgeoning Greens – and I'm starting to think all of our current class of journalists are Reform voters. Why would they tell me if things were looking hopeful for those of us who oppose Reform? And why would I listen to a Media Class that couldn't even put aside their racism for 1/18th of a second when a MIXED Black Girl married a man that was never going to be King anyway?

They, of course, have a vested interest in maintaining their class position, and that's fine, everyone self-preserves sometimes, but that doesn't mean they're going about it in a rational, sensible, or even clever way. Just look at the people regretting voting for Trump – you'll start to see that their economic status is morphing from Poverty to the upper-middle class. Joe Rogan is regretting it. Tucker Carlson is regretting it.

These people aren't smart. They don't know better. They don't even know how to make the right decisions for themselves.

So stop flailing in a future created by people who do not know what they're doing. Stop freezing – find something to do, and then do it. Decide on the future you want, be patient, and work towards it. Don't look to the side, don't let their idiocy and lack of creativity distract you or discourage you. They don't know what they're talking about.

This is where storytelling can change the world. This is why I take our work at OBSCURAE seriously – stories help us train and exercise the muscle of creativity and imagination. It is a vital survival tool that humans have used to innovate our way out of problems that seemed impossible, against physics, against biology. Star Trek gave us the iPhone.

If you're a storyteller, I am calling on you to do your civic duty and show up for all of us. This is not frivolous. Even the most banal, fluffy stories are like Yoga for the imagination. Even K-Pop Demon Hunters pushes the mind to strengthen its vision. You must stop seeing this as an escape and start seeing it as a way of engaging the world in practising imaginative problem-solving through the simulation of a crisis. You are building a more resilient world through your stories.

Keep Going.

Stay tuned to OBSCURAE during this summer because there's far more I want to say on this topic – and will be.