If your psyche cannot handle that neverending barrage yes, you are burned out
Despair and having no time to even improve your own life due to endless grind to survive.
Yeah I’m right on the edge of disconnecting from any kind of news completely. I’m helpless to do anything and it’s all bad, I just want blissful ignorance. I spent 2 weeks hiking Canadian Rockies with basically no phone service and it was the happiest I’ve been in years. Fucking climate is going down the toilet, trump is still allowed to breathe air, the far and alt right are gaining traction everywhere in the world, Putin is a shit stain, the Supreme Court are a bunch of crooks, etc etc etc, everything is eroding to shit.
I haven’t read or watched the news for almost a decade now. I recommend it.
I do hate when people put the news in memes though, that ruins my streak.
When the world goes dark, sometimes we have to become lights. We may be dim by ourselves, but enough of us can change things.
We may not be able to fix a dying government, or a world that’s largely forgotten the horrors of war, but we can help today in our community, and locally.
It may not be enough, but it’s something. Maybe those of us aware enough to be frozen in frustration, disappointnent, and even fear by today’s events need this the most. Become a light to someone, some people, or many.
I guess this is a journey of a thousand steps sort of thing, which aims to avoid the death by a thousand cuts.
the world we live in seems unfixably fucked, but our ancestors lived through feudalism and kings for way longer and even made it through the black death without society crumbling to pieces, things even got better afterward!
The united workers of the 1920’s gave us this absolute gem of a verse:
"In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the might of armies, multiplied a thousand-fold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old For the union makes us strong."
Obsessing about all those bad things, instead of the things you can change, is not helpful, though.
Use a goddamned question mark.
Which god are you invoking, though
At this point it’s not so much a question as it is a statement
Invert the subject and verb and my response woulda just been a nod
Can you rewrite what you mean? My brain hurts
“are you” equals question, except there was no question mark.
Yes
Do nothing about? Wat :| I do not understand.
What you can do about it is stop gobbling up all the bad news you can see in this “I hate it but I can’t stop watching” way. Things have always been shit, the only difference is that you’ve now got a live feed of it in your pocket which you don’t want to put down.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” -J. Krishnamurti
I saw this post sandwiched between an article about the supreme court ruling and an article about how the far right is likely to get a majority in France.
Yeah, but the difference is France will go crazy and actually start cutting heads off until they are not the majority.
Bet
Yes
Agreed.
Did you guys actually think you could make a difference before?? That is so sweet 🥹
Despair seems like a reasonable reaction to me.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
I have ADHD. The answer is both.