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firstly, i got rid of or altered any social media that has algorithmic content suggestion and endless scrolling. overproduction (in this case, of content/information) incentivizes capitalists to get you to overconsume, regardless of whether or not that overconsumption is unhealthy/addictive.
secondly, i investigated what internal features or contradictions i had left to resolve that would explain why i defaulted to hopelessness. part of what's meaningful about revolutionary optimism to me is the fact that it not only feels much better than hopelessness, but is also the correct/optimal cognitive approach. and, it applies to society as much as it does to every individual life.
i think it's much easier to be revolutionary optimistic when you actively unlearn whatever you learned to become/feel helpless, rather than trying to simply paper over your helpless feelings with revolutionary optimism, which always felt kind of fake to me. this may or may not track with your experience, but that's the process i've gone through to actively and permanently feel more hopeful.
thanks for this my friend. On social media, I've gotten off almost all of it. Trying to get off Reddit but I used it heavily for sports stuff too but I think I'm getting better at cutting it out.
And yeah, I'm trying to examine myself and I do understand why I have a tendency towards hopelessness. I think it's just gonna take time for me to work through my own internal contradictions.
Thanks again