Does anyone else feel overwhelmed by how the world is going this year?
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Yes, so I am overwhelming myself with good stuff so I don't have as much time to let that stuff bother me.
I joined an animal rescue that I work at every Sunday and busy my butt there. I also started participating in community events with other people through my music teacher, so I've always got new songs to work on. These national protests also have a more uplifting vibe than I'd expected, so I'd like to participate in more of those too.
So I'm feeling better about my own actions, developing more skills, helping my environment, giving entertainment back to my community, and seeing hundreds of other people that also want this place to be a bit better.
Sure the news is still a total buzzkill, but I can only dwell on it so long. I put off doing these things for so long saying I didn't have time or energy, but now they are wonderful healthy distractions, and even if we do pull out of this tailspin, I'd love to keep doing all these things anyway.
Don't let jerks keep you down. We can't stop all of it, but we can all find some way to be useful and successful, and other people seeing you carry on will keep them motivated too!
I'm just doing my small part by raising kids who will act like adults when they grow up
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.Hoping to get into numismatics professionally. That or teaching. My SO is a teacher and there's a shortage hereabouts, has been for years.
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We have selective pressure. It just selects psychopaths.
So survival of the fittest, become one or find something more useful to become.
I almost bought this until I read your username
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I feel like we're living in a [Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire]
I don't understand why you'd say this. The US 100% did start all these fires. Not only did they start them, they keep adding wood to the fire. It's so blatant even a blind person could see.
Billy Joel has great song and I appreciate him as an artist, but I'll he damned if he isn't an imperialist justifier.
Is that how the song should be taken?
I always understood it as him or the speaker singing the lyrics as if the audience was innocent in the events, and the leaders /villains/whoever are not “us” and they did it.
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.I feel overwhelmed by how the world apparently went today
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.Honestly? I think if you had access to social media for any time in the last 100 years you would feel overwhelmed. The nature of the beast is there is ALWAYS something happening. There's ALWAYS something to be angry about.
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.3.0 will be done by the Fallout boys
My fav is the mailman
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.No.
The world is run by capitalism, and you have to remember that unhappy, anxious people spend more, while dead people don't spend anything.
Turn off the news. Turn off the social media. Go for a walk. It's nice outside. None of this shit has manifested there.
Well, unless you're in America and you look vaguely foreign. Maybe don't go for a walk in that case.
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Without selective pressure our brains won’t change, and definitely not on the timescale of thousands of years.
Bruh selective pressure to mate has these young men going full fascist mode
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No.
The world is run by capitalism, and you have to remember that unhappy, anxious people spend more, while dead people don't spend anything.
Turn off the news. Turn off the social media. Go for a walk. It's nice outside. None of this shit has manifested there.
Well, unless you're in America and you look vaguely foreign. Maybe don't go for a walk in that case.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]We essentially have an oligarchy, or at least a growing list of authoritarian leaders. Kings in many ways except by name. Kings have been perfectly willing to destroy countries in furtherance of their egos, profits or other. Wellbeing of their citizens be damned.
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No.
The world is run by capitalism, and you have to remember that unhappy, anxious people spend more, while dead people don't spend anything.
Turn off the news. Turn off the social media. Go for a walk. It's nice outside. None of this shit has manifested there.
Well, unless you're in America and you look vaguely foreign. Maybe don't go for a walk in that case.
I don't know if just choosing to ignore this all is the correct response. I mean, it's not overencumbering, but it feels like it also is a way for capital to reign free.
Maybe I'm just reading badly into it.
The correct way to fight against capitalism is to get together with your neighbours and start building communities that aren't reliant on the Big Market.
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Is that how the song should be taken?
I always understood it as him or the speaker singing the lyrics as if the audience was innocent in the events, and the leaders /villains/whoever are not “us” and they did it.
More specifically, singing as the younger generation about trying to live in the world their parents and grandparents seem intent on burning to the ground. And that's not just my perception. You can hear him tell it in his own words (starting at 1:52).
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I'd like to believe that, but some people I have met who are not struggling for resources and had kind and loving families are still somehow just some selfish motherfuckers. I don't know where they got that trauma from that made them want to hurt others so badly.
Capitalism is inherently violent and hurtful. You don’t have to look past the system in which they live.
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Bruh selective pressure to mate has these young men going full fascist mode
Evolution does not work that way.
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May your quantum eraser never run dry
Fingers crossed & thx
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.Yeah but I feel this way every year.
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.I mean this is the year I finally started looking into building a diy NAS, so much more preferable to study guides rather than open the news and witness the despair filled shitshow.
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I don't know if just choosing to ignore this all is the correct response. I mean, it's not overencumbering, but it feels like it also is a way for capital to reign free.
Maybe I'm just reading badly into it.
The correct way to fight against capitalism is to get together with your neighbours and start building communities that aren't reliant on the Big Market.
The idea that we all need to disconnect from reality to stay sane is absolutely making reality worse.
This advice is from Boomer generations that hope to coast by before the world they neglected is no longer livable, while newer generations are forcing themselves to engage with reality because society is quickly becoming unlivable.
