The World Is Ending!  Please Like and Subscribe and Buy My Merchandise!

With all the bad stuff going on in the world, it’s easy to get immersed in the negative, and I have to admit, I’ve watched my share of doom and gloom videos on certain video platforms that seem to promote negativity in the algorithm.  Economic collapse videos, imminent global war videos, civil unrest videos, societal decay videos, I’ve watched them all.

I don’t watch only gloom and doom videos.  I also watch sports analysis, health, history,  and movie clip videos.  And I listen to lots of music that isn’t doom and gloom.  And of course, I read lots of books.

Even so, I’m a sucker for a good doom and gloom video.  It’s a little jarring, though, when a doom and gloomer stops the presentation and asks the viewer to like and subscribe to his channel in order to cater to the algorithm.  Doom and gloomers are supposed to despise the algorithm, yet here they are, asking viewers to manipulate it.

Even worse is when the doom and gloomers sell merchandise with their doom and gloom logos.  It makes me believe that the doom and gloomer is insincere.  Most of those doom and gloom t-shirts and hats and mugs are very impractical during a global apocalypse.  But they help fund the channel and keep the doom and gloomer from getting a real job. 

I’m sure most doom and gloom content creators don’t believe everything they say.  If I were a sincere doom and gloomer, I wouldn’t want to make money as a content creator.  Content creator would be the worst skill to have during a global collapse.  When the world is falling apart, you need people who can fix things, grow food, protect the food, and protect the women and children.  At the very least, you need people with lots of guns.  And water.  And food.  And land.  And fences.

 You don’t need a content creator.

A content creator can survive only in a civilized society that puts up with indolent behavior.  Plus, it’s kind of arrogant to think that you should be able to make a living by creating content during a global collapse.

I think to some people, the world has always been doom and gloom. When I was growing up, the doom and gloomers were called chicken littles or just crazy.  The sky was always falling.  The world was always ending.

Don’t get me wrong.  There’s always bad stuff going on. The fear mongers have a point.

I remember the ‘misery index’ and ‘national malaise’ of the late 1970s.  I remember gas lines, the Vietnam War, the threat of nuclear war, and the impending destruction of the Ozone Layer (I’m glad we fixed that one… supposedly).  I also remember that the Amazon Rain Forest was supposed to be gone by now, and the world was going to run out of oil by 2000… or was it 2010? 

Before I was born, there was a history of misery and disasters and genocides that I don’t want any part of.  I’m kind of glad that I wasn’t around for most time periods.  At least, as far as I know, I wasn’t around (unless reincarnation is really a thing and I don’t remember my past lives).  Most time periods and places kind of suck (if you believe history), yet humanity has still survived and progressed (maybe… depending on how you look at it). We’re still here.

Things might not be alright at this moment.  Things might go really bad.  They probably will (or have already gone) bad for a lot of people. But to all the doom and gloom content creators who are trying to get me to like and subscribe and buy their merchandise, I have just one thing to say:

Buy my book first.

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