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I feel like it's been like this for about a decade for me
Feels like every year which has passed since about 2015 has left us (as a species) in a worse place than we started. On top of that, so many of the choices we made along the way to make things categorically worse, were very clearly going to go the way they did... and we did them anyway.
Gotta love living in a timeline where ignorance helps fascism spread but paying attention takes a toll on your health and well-being.
As with anything, a positive state is maintained only by constant maintenance. Vigilance is the price of societal progress, and our society has been insufficiently vigilant for too long. I agree that each person should only do what they can to stay vigilant, but it is also a societal duty to be informed and educated. If it helps to know that there are people keeping track of the US bullshit (even though they're nominally satirists, but all of the actual journalists have been bought out or replaced), here:
You have to find a balance. Set yourself a weekly limit of how much news you consume and take some time for a hobby or family or something to balance it out.
There is no use reading the 3rd article a day about why Palantyr is a techno fascist nightmare that dooms us all. You got it the first time, right?
There is only so much we can take on the regular. Maybe instead of consuming it, we spend some more time fixing things. Which is hard of course but much more rewarding.
I try to focus on my spheres of influence and use the logic from power mapping to make sure the bulk of my attention and efforts on impactful things that I can actually change but even still it's simply impossible to even exist in those spaces without being bombarded by well everything that's happening. It is painful to have to 'filter out' human suffering just to be able to focus on other human suffering.
100% this.
A person who knows nothing and does nothing is, in practice, identical to someone who knows and sees everything on the daily but is too demoralized to do anything about it.
Gotta be the worst thing I can do for my mental health
I want off Mr. Bones wild ride
I feel this way everyday
*Mr. Bonespurs
Boooo (take the up vote)
Hope you're staying informed on what your local community is doing to fight back against this, and then joining them. Just watching it all unfold by yourself is going to destroy your mental health. Taking action with friends and community will help both the country and your own well-being.
It's only been 2 weeks and I'm already fucking tired :(
Sorry, but I'm posting a lot of news today.
What are all of these? Are they good movies?
Up-left is probably Marriage Story. Decent movie.
I recognize bottom right as true detective which is a series and was fantastic.
The important thing is that you’re aware of what’s going on, not your mental health.
Politics doesn’t ignore you so you must engage with it even if it makes you misanthropic and despondent.
Happiness will never exist, and you should take pride in your misery because it means you’re a good citizen and are paying attention.
I do get jealous of happy people sometimes though. Or is it envious?
It's both. I often wish that a lobotomy was available as an elective surgery so I could become dumb, ignorant, and blissfully unaware of (gestures broadly around) all this.
I would turn to different drugs to do this but they would affect my ability to have a job to afford a roof over my head and food in my belly.
maybe try ChatGPT
As an alternative to drugs or performing at work?
As an alternative to a lobotomy