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Are there words to describe feeling this way(too long for title, please read)

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That you were somehow born in a parrallel universe at a moment where humanity DIDN'T wipe itself out with nukes. I was born in 1982, and in some ways, the world was much closer to annihilation then than now. If one looks at the Cold War, America was starting to be really belligerent around then, they made those wargames that started alarms in the USSR about incoming ICBM's. See this video about the russian civilian that saved all our asses :



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

This man, by disobeying orders/delaying action, saved humanity, an incident caused by a quite arrogant foe who destroyed the Detente of the late 60's and 70's.

I feel like the world before 1982 and after 1982 is very different. I can't catalog everything I read, heard that started getting worse or bad then. But maybe life is a kind of...how to say this, our present consciousness is part of this pretty precarious world that is very hostile to life itself outside this planet, I won't speculate about life on exoplanets, but I think the predicaments of the people on each peopled planets are different for the sake of my argument. 1982,all about when outsourcing started, when video games became something big, when blaming the Japanese for the economy until it was replaced by China by a lot of americans, when CO2 emissions started to skyrocket, that certain types of wildlife started to be seriously endangered in my part of Canada...Anyways, to the point, one could say, we live in an alternate universe of the one where Stanislav Petrov DID launch the nukes. It could be romanticized that the people born during this era, are supposed to be the captains of the vessel which is Earth. But no, people who are 30 years old are not the boss anymore, it's not 100 years ago. The bad people who are still alive lost in another time ruling our realm are people that escaped judgement (by whom, I dunno, maybe karma...). We didn't have 95 years olds at the head of banks back then.

Until this scum part of the 1%, aka Old Money is gone, We the rightful owners of this ship are going to be forced into more and more subservient as these people fear their own death more and more.

There might be a similar generation who will survive this in whatever vector of time that makes us not nuke each other into oblivion that will really be the stewards of that ship. And this is why we are in this repair mode, regarding the environment etc., because the best suited people for this planet will be around when my generation is old EN MASSE and not powerful compared to the many people who still afford to retire, and retire rich right now. We won't have that option.

I don't know if there is any thought current that could be associated to this thought that occured to me earlier today, that we are collectively the planet that didn't die right away 30 years ago, but that somehow we feel happened anyway to a part of ourself which is present in all the multiverses.
 
It's sort of a hard-coded realization of alternate possibilities, except it's a fully embodied feeling - that you are here, yet you could have easily been somewhere else (and are perhaps there now). The only wording I can think of that might be close to it is a variation of déja vu called presque vu, which is the feeling that something happened but the precise details aren't known because it actually didn't happen. It doesn't necessarily pertain to alternate realities specifically, just other potentials whether imagined or real.
 
idk, but im guessing new money from mass market capitalism probably makes old money look wanting...and the many worlds interpretation is likely just a fancy thought experiment, gobally warming will likely trump the nuclear war any day--see venus.
consider this...if our civilization were a 10k years more advanced, any teenager with angst issues could blow up the planet...so im guessing were are born into the matrix untill we can prove ourselves, then we are giving immortality and skip drives to wonder about the stars.
 
I believe your brain created a false set of memories for whatever reason and i'd call what you're "feeling" a delusion.
 
u could say we live in the best of all possible worlds (Monad) or that there is only one possibility. I know what you are describing and can't really explain it either but it's a feeling that is not constant and i think it's like how we distinguish reality from our dreams. The very idea itself 'feels' like there's something off, it's not clear and distinct (ie. descartes' argument we exist). It's kind of an existential theme IMO, that realization that you could just fucking drive into the water and kill yourself at any time is empowering and also creates this sort of what the fuck feeling of what if. I don't get too caught up in it.
 
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