I swear if you watch British News you'd jump off a cliff...

I don't want to sound pessimistic and stuff.
But the news is just so gloomy and so depressing right now.
I'm aware of the current crisis but it feels like everyday they say the same things and ring up random high numbers.

They use just harsh words about the dire situation we will all be in.
And the constant news outside of this seems to be about upheaval and confusion.

It's rubbish.

But on a side note. This wasn't for a rant but is there anything going on in your life currently that allows you to escape all of this?

Gangstress · 41-45, F

I haven't watched the news in over a year, yes I am all up for current affairs, but I am not sitting and listening to their shit anymore.

Its been doom and gloom since the pandemic happened. and theres nothing inbetween

It feels like they are working on The Great Reset.

Gangstress · 41-45, F

the thing is them more I read about the great reset (at one point yes, I was on the same I don't believe this) the more I am thinking this actually could be happening.

https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/

@Mellowgirl

Elessar · 26-30, M

@Gangstress As per the source linked:

[quote]The Great Reset agenda would have three main components. The first would steer the market toward fairer outcomes. To this end, governments should improve coordination (for example, in tax, regulatory, and fiscal policy), upgrade trade arrangements, and create the conditions for a “stakeholder economy.” At a time of diminishing tax bases and soaring public debt, governments have a powerful incentive to pursue such action.

Moreover, governments should implement long-overdue reforms that promote more equitable outcomes. Depending on the country, these may include changes to wealth taxes, the withdrawal of fossil-fuel subsidies, and new rules governing intellectual property, trade, and competition.

The second component of a Great Reset agenda would ensure that investments advance shared goals, such as equality and sustainability. Here, the large-scale spending programs that many governments are implementing represent a major opportunity for progress. The European Commission, for one, has unveiled plans for a €750 billion ($826 billion) recovery fund. The US, China, and Japan also have ambitious economic-stimulus plans.

Rather than using these funds, as well as investments from private entities and pension funds, to fill cracks in the old system, we should use them to create a new one that is more resilient, equitable, and sustainable in the long run. This means, for example, building “green” urban infrastructure and creating incentives for industries to improve their track record on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics.

The third and final priority of a Great Reset agenda is to harness the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to support the public good, especially by addressing health and social challenges. During the COVID-19 crisis, companies, universities, and others have joined forces to develop diagnostics, therapeutics, and possible vaccines; establish testing centers; create mechanisms for tracing infections; and deliver telemedicine. Imagine what could be possible if similar concerted efforts were made in every sector.[/quote]

If anything, the opposite of this is happening.

The first world is steering more and more into an unfairer outcome, fossil-fuels are a key component of the current crisis and they aren't being withdrawn anytime soon (not even now, with soaring prices, the prospect of a collapse of the manufacturing sector and a winter without heating ahead). I see no improvement whatsoever on trade, intellectual property and competition either. The stimuli/"investments" have been (as expected, and contrarily to the agenda above) the umpteenth hand-out for the wealthy pretty much everywhere, the only effect they had on the low and middle classes are soaring inflation (who would've ever imagined that printing money like crazy and handing it out to the rich would've caused this? Aside from literally anyone who ever opened a manual of economy and read the first two or three pages). The current system is exactly (if not more) as broken, unsustainable, non-resilient, non-equitable; and there won't be any long-term improvements so long as the trend is this. Third and final component of the "Great Reset" is being rolled back even for the healthcare sector ever since COVID is no longer an emergency at the eyes of politicians and a tired population who's been trying and failing to put the head under the sand since 2020 than admitting there is a problem (and now can with this stage of the pandemic that is relatively tame compared to the one that preceded it); let alone propagating to other sectors.

This stuff is just a PR stunt and material for rightwinger propagandists to create some wild conspiracies upon. The world is going in the same sh*tty direction it's been going since the early 2000s, it has just accelerated.