Nothing, I just wait for unbridled rage to give me a fatal heart attack, or for a driver to run me over to get out of a parking lot or driveway a second sooner.
Curiosity
Simple, I don't get knee deep into politics and whatever everyone else is doom scrolling on.
you've heard about global warming though, right? You don't exactly need to doomscroll to at least have an intellectual understanding of what kind of situation we're in.
Key word here being "intellectual". It's important to recognize the issues and think of how we can affect the solution, but this is not what media at large provides or induces. It sews panic, doom, and ultimately loss of agency.
"That's my secret, Cap, ..."
Resubscribed to XIV online. it's a good escape from this shitty reality.
Also reaching out to old connections that sizzled away
Nihilism. It's unlikely that humans will destroy the ability for earth to sustain life, just make our society collapse.
Humans lives aren't as important as life itself.
I would go a step further to say life isn't that important as a whole in the grand scheme of the universe
We as humans place value on it because we're part of it, we rely on it to carry on existing, and we're curious and find it interesting
Could argue that intelligence/sentience is important but it's only important from the perspective of beings with intelligence
I suppose I'm not 100% on Nihilism in that sense.
I still value life of course, but the climate change existential dread which I feel pretty constantly is alleviated when I tell myself its only complete societal collapse/mass extinction event, rather than total destruction of life on the earth.
It helps to realize that all times are troubled times.
The first noble truth of buddhism is: “Life is suffering”.
Not “Life in this decade in this country is suffering”. It’s not a locally-scoped phenomenon.
Marxist theorists have known for many decades that the rise of fascism was coming. They called every step of this so accurately, you’d think they had a copy of Biff’s sports almanac.
But the same theorists also predicted the eventual fall of capitalists/fascists, and that socialism/communism would follow. I just hope we get to that point before climate collapse. But I’m doing what I can as an individual, and trusting the process.
Lately for me it's been the Octopath Traveler II soundtrack. Whenever I feel stressed out I just listen to the character themes and it totally transports me to another place.
Cyber attacks and hybrid attacks have already occurred, and the risk of a full blown invasion increases. Should I be worried? Maybe I should ask Ukrainians how they’re handling these troubling times.
So, what’s on your mind these days? Talking about it might help.
There are sane people out there?
Definitely not in America.
Nihilism
Constant distraction, shutting out problems until I'm able to deal with them
Not a good method but it kinda works
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