realizing we're living in a dystopian reality (playlist)

TIMESTAMPS ─ in the comments section, i decided to put them there since, for some reason, there is less possibility that the video will be blocked, let's see if it works

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TAGS ─ #postrock #ambient #dystopia

[nobodyplaylists]

TIMESTAMPS / (author/s)

00:00 a winter that kills (unworn)
06:00 fire at static valley (godspeed you! black emperor)
11:49 this is not a test (unworn)
19:57 vinland (northumbria)
32:17 beginning to end: act ii (aimee norris)
37:10 moya (godspeed you! black emperor)
47:56 eternal end to the impossible (unworn)
52:59 shit-heap-gloria of the new town planning (set fire to flames)

[lucacarey]

It’s actually incredibly appropriate that YouTube occasionally interrupts the playlist with unbearable upbeat commercial sounds.

[innsj]

"Dystopia begins when selfishness lives not only in The Elite, but in all layers of society - when even the common man makes obstacles of his neighbours and competitors of his friends."

[livingstonemarmon]

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."

[gigipeedee]

"The world isn't dying, it's being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses"
-Samuel Hyde

[mrmatt]

"It's not too long before we're in a dystopia" my brother in christ we're here

[smilingearth]

"The world as you know it is not dead. The world as you know it never existed. It was an image, projected by the powerful and warped by the greedy. What you got is the afterimage."

[wylser]

" The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. "
~ William Gibson

[愛-qj]

Reading the comments with the music playing is so surreal dude.

[Naruto_from_the_Naruto_show]

I love how über-specific these moods are and yet, all of us are like "yes, I was looking for something like this".

[dreamwalker-]

“But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.”
― E. M. Forster

[denkefirKOALA]

We live in a cursed timeline where we skipped the funny and romantic cyberpunk stage and jumped straight into corrupting dystopia.

[tomaszwojtasik]

That feeling when you open a playlist on dystopia and see your hometown in the first picture.

[anelimcakeas]

Wow, the first photo is from Łódź - the city in Poland, I'm actually live in. And it really has dystopia vibes, especially this time of year but I still love it. To anyone reading this - if you'll ever have an option, come and visit Łódź. It's not so popular as Warsaw, Cracow or Gdańsk but its worth of exploring - post-industrial scenery, paradoxes like some pretty, restored building next to ratty one. Nor most beautiful city, neither the best to live in but interesting, original - that's for sure

[marra]

For anyone scrolling through the comments and struggling with despair: things were always bad. It may seem like they're especially bad right now, but I can assure you this was always like this. Humanity has always existed in various states of suffering and disconnect, the background and ways we adapt to it just changes as our minds evolve.

The important thing is to not get caught up in it. Look for your happiness when you can. Cry when you need to. We're living through the fall of Rome, the French Revolution, the aftermath of war, the beginning of war, the moment when mothers realized their own country was selling their children, the start of human trafficking, the forced labor of millions of children from hundreds of lands.

Humans always sucked. Don't think too deep about it and try to make sure YOU don't contribute to the suck. Be kind to people around you. Do a favor for a loved one. Learn a language. Learn to make pottery. Paint or write something. Compliment someone on their sweater.

It still matters.

It always mattered.

[RDM_Diego]

"You will reach peace, when you realize there is no place for such thing"

[o.c]

When you come from a third world country, where you have to get up everyday, go out to find any food and you don't know if you will be able to come back home safe, or even alive... It's when you realize you live in a dystopia, isolated from the rest of the world that seems to do so well.

I used to describe the place where I come from like an alternate reality of The Walking Dead. No resources, no water, no food, no electricity. Just famine, anger and selfishness to survive every second of the day. Nothing is for sure and anything can change in just a moment, even your own fate. The fear of waking up in the total collapse of a society that still tries to function with everything against, the melancholy on everyone's eyes because they know this will not change in many years from now... Yet seeing beauty within despair and destruction. The leftovers and corpses of huge business buildings and what used to be a thriving community, the loneliness of empty constructions full of plants and graffittis after being abandoned for so long. You learn to see the beauty of a bird flying away, free. Children playing barefoot and dirty on the streets, or people smiling at you on a 12-hour-long line for some food or medication.

Please be kind to everybody, as you don't know who is a survivor, or where do we come from and what we have seen... We are all survivors of our own collapses.

[emanatingauras]

To people coming to terms with the advent of dystopia: I have already lived in one my entire life. I live in a country where I cannot speak out against the government, people are being sent to jail for life for holding elections, and the opposition to our draconian and oppressive government dwindles every day. It always starts in the smallest places and inches up, until you realise it is all around you and there is nothing you can do.

Rejecting dystopia partly comes from finding fulfilling happiness in yourself. I still write poetry, read books, even as everything falls apart outside. It may feel paralysing and all-encompassing, but so long as you can do something you enjoy at this moment of time, then this life is not in vain.

[kmstirpitz]

Our world is getting more dystopian by the day and many people don't see it but rather support it.

EDIT: Folk down below have to realize neither American political party cares nor supports the common everyday American and rather exploit the bitter division and hatred amongst the working and middle classes for their own gain and means.

[heradabic]

Listening to this while I study because it truly is a 'study or die' situation for me. If I cannot get a high CGPA, then I must find a way to make money as a student. Because if I don't get a constant high CGPA throughout my studies, then I must repay the loans I was given. The situation is grim, but I haven't lost yet.

I must make a better life for me and my family. It is the only way to survive in this hellhole.