I’m too Doom And Gloom

'“Doom and gloom” is a phrase that occasionally gets used to describe me for my outspokenness and opinions on current events.

Here’s the thing, I absolutely understand why folks say that, and I’m not disagreeing with it, but I would argue that I’m not the one being doom and gloom - the times we are living in are really just, well, gloomy.

This is a blog not a peer reviewed academic paper or even a piece of journalistic writing, so keep that in mind and feel free to be skeptical of what is written here. I am only one person, experiencing this life from this perspective.

I’m a big picture person, so here’s some big things happening in this world at a glance:

Global birth rates are falling - some places like South Korea are in the negative. There’s a bunch of reasons that contribute to this: inflation and high cost of living/ low wages, social isolation and chronic burn out and fatigue, a massive difference in philosophy and ideology between men and women, as well as women being educated and having access to birth control.

I watched an internet video where someone said it best: “How badly do you have to abuse a mammal that it is no longer breeding/having babies?” People across the globe simply feel that the conditions of modern life are not ideal or suitable for having children.

Climate Crisis is Growing - There’s been more floods, hurricanes, wildfires and devastation in America in the last 5 years than I remember hearing about in my youth. Places have seen biblical amounts of flooding, including Washington, Montana, North Carolina and Tennessee. California is still recovering from wildfires from early 2025. That is just America. Record breaking levels of flooding are occurring across our planet, affecting the global south most severely. We know of causes like pollution, and gas emissions and the ice caps melting, and even while we are aware of these things, rather than collectively work to mitigate the worst of it, we implement bullshit technology like AI, which uses absurd amounts of water and electricity for every inquiry.

Class Consciousness and the Bottom 98% Versus the Elite - This is a broad sweep that encompasses a lot of things. Class consciousness is the idea that we as people deserve dignity and that our humanity is not worth less than those that hoard resources. My friends hear me talk about how “everything is interconnected” and this is what I’m often referring to.

Capitalism can be thought of a mind parasite: it needs to feed off the host. It needs you buy, buy, buy, so it can grow, grow, grow. In business college, I was taught by well meaning economics professors that capitalism is the best system and breeds innovation, but we can see for ourselves that this isn’t true. Every iPhone for the last 15 years has looked almost exactly the same, and so have android phones. All modern cars adopt body and grill styles that look similar across brands, with dashboards that also look indistinguishable from one make to the next.

Capitalism can only ever be focused on growth, it cannot be satisfied, there is no concept of enough. If it were, there wouldn’t be the need to squeeze us dry by selling smaller, lower quality versions of products we love for higher prices. It has no end, it’s point is itself, not what is best for humanity, and thus our humanity is lost trying to uphold it. I’m not being hyperbolic. I mean every word of that.

It functions philosophically the same as other systems designed to control people, such as patriarchy and colonialism.

Patriarchy is a system that gets its justification through man-made religion and violence. It’s core message is that Men serve the most powerful men with their labor, as soldiers or workers, and enforces a hierarchy upon them, where they are to submit to the most power men, and gives them a false sense of superiority by teaching that women are all inferior. So long as a majority of men are comfortable with their own captivity, they will never see a problem with how women and children are treated under patriarchy. If you think this is a reach, go read the Epstein files and observe how many of the perpetrators were men and how many victims were women and children - THAT is a product of patriarchy. It too, like capitalism cannot be satisfied, and does not benefit humanity.

Colonialism is a system that spreads ideology and religion to foreign peoples as a means to justify the colonizers actions of taking resources and exploiting human capital.

Capitalism, Patriarchy and Colonization are all reliant on false hierarchies, and those that we consider the elite benefit from all three. Again, look at the information contained within the Epstein files: Rich (Capitalism) White (colonization) Men (Patriarchy) are running child and sex trafficking rings. Their victims? People that are from poor countries, who are women and children, many of whom are black and brown bodies.

Class Consciousness is the concept of average people like me, realizing this and speaking up about it. I was always told “follow the money” and this is where it leads.

In my last post, I talked about ICE and how a metaphorical chill sets in the hearts of the people, before mass abductions ever happened. That issue falls under class consciousness too, because at it’s core, it is a concept focused on human rights for everyone.

“Well, sure, maybe those things are issues, but what is the point in talking about them ad nauseam?”

Awareness. Awareness is the point. The more you think about something, the more you sit with it and give it consideration, the more you are going to be curious about it and want to understand it better, and this is what leads to action.

If the issues of the day are only ever on “the back burner” of your mind, and you aren’t giving it active attention, you’re going to neglect and let what’s in that pot burn.

Talking about it is the entire point. Action does not just happen. You have to talk about things, decide what the core issues are, and find people who are willing to engage with those issues in conversation. Only then, can plans be made and actions carried out.

I don’t post about these things on my social media for the sake of fear mongering or because I’m some sort of sadist. I post and talk and write and make videos and art about these things for one reason and one reason only: because I care.

Not all activism, if that’s what you want to consider me here, is the same. Just because you aren’t out at a protest doesn’t mean you aren’t contributing to resisting violations to civil liberties and rights.

I’m not like this because I enjoy “being negative” all the time. Hope and belief in a more fair and just world is the reason I speak and share information about unsavory and uncomfortable events. At the root of it all is compassion and love.

As a child, I would listen to and discuss with my mom her plan to leave my alcoholic father for YEARS before she finally did. Were these conversations too negative and just a waste of time since she didn’t do anything directly about it for a while? Of course not, and neither is talking at length about the things we see happening in our world. It takes time.

Perhaps my delivery in these conversations could be less frantic and more palatable. Perhaps I could work on being more level-headed and less sensationalized when talking to people about these things. I can understand that argument.

But maybe the emotionally charged delivery is necessary. Maybe some things should disrupt our routine and comfort. There’s a reason your home’s fire alarm system isn’t a soothing lullaby and absolutely REFUSES to shut up until it detects the smoke has cleared — it’s supposed to scare you out of sleep so that you get out of a burning house. It would be absurd to be angry at the smoke detector for alerting you. Sure, it’s inconvenient and annoying, and maybe I am too.

I won’t apologize for that, not while so many are without a voice or representation sitting in a detention facility, or are buried in unmarked graves, or are treated inhumanely, and I won’t apologize for being too doom and gloom.