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2025-01-07 22:42:35

Forest of Enchantment on Nostr: It’s visible every day around me now — everyone is old. Old people everywhere. ...

It’s visible every day around me now — everyone is old. Old people everywhere. Health clinics are full of old people, restaurants are full of old people, parks are full of old people. I don’t really know what’s going to happen. We simply can’t support all these old people.

It feels sad also. The parks don’t have children. The schools are closing. The nightclubs and bars are struggling.

It honestly feels like living in a sci-fi movie.

When I listen to the news now, they’re always talking about it. “Demographic shift”, “population decline”, “falling birth rates”. Several of my friends have jobs researching the issue. Many others are working in health care, tending to the greying masses.

Movies and TV shows are full of remakes or concepts that appeal to the elderly. Bands play oldies covers. Children’s clothing stores shut down and are replaced with physical therapy studios that cater to the old and disabled.

It’s weird because I’ve been thinking about it and talking about it for so long, but now it’s here. And what now?

It isn’t going to be evenly spread across the world, of course. Some places are much older than others. But it feels very sad and stagnant.

Seriously, what happens now? I imagine some sort of dramatic collapse, but I know that’s not likely. I guess it’s just a grind downwards now of decline and stagnation and the end of our cultures.
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