'Something is coming'

Biblioklept
Biblioklept Online Community Member Posts: 249 Empowering
in Coffee lounge

I know I'm not alone in feeling this way, but for some time now, years probably, but it's gotten worse in last few months, it just feels like SOMETHING is coming. We're building towards something and I don't know what.

I've wondered if it's my autistic pattern recognition that's got my spidey senses tingling and working overtime but I don't know. Things just don't feel right. Does anyone else feel like this? What have you put it down to?

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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,401 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I've noticed a few autistic people saying the same thing recently, I've been feeling that odd "Something isn't right" feeling too, but I've put it down to the news and social media being a total firestorm recently and it's just getting a bit tiring to read.

    I think we need to fill the internet with nice things and good news. 😁

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,073 Championing

    The world is in a mess. Multiple countries are at war. The UK and USA are both deeply divided on political topics that affect all of our lives. Meaning that whatever choices are made, half of each country will be unhappy about it. The world can't even seem to agree on environmental decisions that affect everyone on the planet. I do think the world is completely different now to how it was 10+ years ago. And I don't have any answers as to how that could be improved right now.

    Sadly I am just having to take the 'ignorance is bliss' approach, and keep away from news and the internet as much as possible.

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,487 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1073319#Comment_1073319

    Just run for high political office, they can't see a thing! Why, you can go from a Tottenham estate to hob nobbing with the US 'beardo'.

    Who says betraying all your principles has a negative side? 🤷‍♂️

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,160 Championing

    The world is definitely different from the 70s

    Was def better then I. Think

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,487 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1073363#Comment_1073363

    Apart from leaded petrol, the NF, **** food etc!

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,487 Championing

    rubbish food?

  • MW123
    MW123 Scope Member Posts: 1,550 Championing

    @Biblioklept

    I am not neurodiverse, but I have felt it. That quiet unease. The sense that something is off, and no one in charge wants to name it.

    Then I read The National Security Strategy 2025 for the British People in a Dangerous World. It emphasises shared responsibility, community resilience and public adaptability in the face of threats. In other words, good luck, look out for each other.

    Measured against the strategy, it is clear they know they cannot fully control what is coming. Little wonder I feel uneasy, as I cannot think of one political figure who could save us.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-security-strategy-2025-security-for-the-british-people-in-a-dangerous-world

  • Passerby
    Passerby Online Community Member Posts: 894 Championing
    edited October 7

    The world has never been static. Something has always been coming, and this will continue till end of times. Wars have always existed and will continue to be around as long as western countries are generating significant amounts of revenues from arms sales. For them to sell their armes, they keep creating and fueling conflicts and divisions elsewhere.

    What has lately become a fashion among politicians in western countries is exploiting and weaponizing racism, xenophobia, ant-immigrant, and Islamophobia to blame and demonise certain groups of the society, including the sick and disabled people, for their own failures. For instance, in the UK, the Cons, Labour, and Reform UK are all jumping over one another in order to create and fuel divisions in the UK and show who's more pronounced in this regard, to the extent that they're all now speaking the very same language.

    What is new, which is seriously contributing to the worries and hopelessness of people, is rather the rising cost of living, and politicians from the main parties are avoiding to call out the culprit, which is Brexit, and those who were responsible for having pushed it. Those who were against Brexit, like Starmer, are zipping it up for not losing Leave voters, and those who voted Leave, like Farage, are using cheap excuses. Farage says that he wasn't in power! This is not true at all. Didn't he withdraw his candidates from 317 constituencies in 2019 to help Boris win in exchange of God knows what!

  • Kookee
    Kookee Online Community Member Posts: 169 Contributor

    Everything feels edgy and weird. Has done for a few years. I’m with @OverlyAnxious in the ignorance is bliss comment. My fingers are mostly firmly in my ears whilst I’m saying ‘lalalala’.

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