How do you cope with the amount of shit that goes on in the world?
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Therapy.
I saw my need for therapy coming over a year ago, and wait was so long I didn't get therapy started until October.
That and I am hoping to start writing. A blog of some sort. Help me think through everything in a way that might help the two or however many readers I manage to gather.
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You think it’s rough now? Give it about 15 minutes, he’s about to address congress…
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I read theory so I can better understand why the world functions in the way that it does and better predict where its heading. That's the first step in knowing how to make things better. Eventually, when I get the chance, organizing will be the way to put theory to practice and directly work towards making the world a better place.
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Lol. Welcome to chasing a pipe dream or crippling depression.
The answer is largely as simple as socialism plus Kant with some secular Jesus because any system that condones human exploitation will eventually implode due to psychopaths' willingness to sacrifice others for power.
But literally basically everything is done wrong to maximize exploitation. Housing, schooling, medicine, food... All fucked to make the richest richer.
Liberalism is the slow road to fascism.
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Yikes, how'd that go?
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I'm not American, so not only am I distanced from what is going on there, but also from Mr Rogers. Regardless, I take his advice for children- When something bad is happening, look for the helpers. They aren't in the headlines of the day, but they are there.
Following on from this, one of the things that I believe made me an adult was when I started helping the helpers.
Go volunteer for a cause you believe in. You'll not only feel better about the cause, but you'll feel better about yourself, and you'll help other people feel better.
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Rep Al Green (TX) shouted at him about not having a mandate to cut Medicaid until he got removed by the Sergeant at Arms, so….swimmingly?
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I weigh the pros and cons of committing suicide every single day.
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What in the world is socialism plus Kant? I will always defend the study of Kant and view him to the one of the most important figures in the history of the world to read but the foundation concepts of the majority of Kant’s ideas are contradictory with socialism. Deontological ethics are diametrically opposed to dialectal materialism. The presumption of the goal preceding the effect in our analysis fails to look at the underlying reality pinning the action to the world. Even if we accept the categorical imperative’s universality formation, the Kingdom of End’s prior assumption relies on the idea that the autonomous will can even exist, something that is obviously not reasonable within a dialectical materialist framework.
The idea of the transcendental idealism is a phenomenal, not materialist view of the world. Knowledge beginning with sense and not experience would completely be opposed to essentially the entire conclusions and analysis of Marx.
Sorry if I misrepresenting what you mean but my understanding of Kant would make this whole concept be nonsensical.
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As a corollary, not doomscroling social media and news articles helps immeasurably. Seriously, stop it, it is not good for one’s health.
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Don't an hero when there's cool games like super smash bros and mar!o party.
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Weed, psychedelics, gaming, and my least/most favorite alcohol (work in progress, it's complicated).
If you're upset or feel bad, just do what you can and hang on. If you make it through a year, a month, a day... thats a victory. Thats doing something. Things won't be like this forever. Nothing lasts forever.
We don't have to go back to the previous status quo after we weather the storm either. We can make things better for all. Don't let the tiny box thinking people with low standards convince you otherwise.
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I'm traveling to a different Quantum version of our universe. I'm done with all this shit.
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Therapy, family, plotting to overturn the system in my head, imagining carrying out those plans with them going swimmingly, imagining myself as the warlord-poet of the enlightened utopic society I would erect afterwards, imagining other things.
There's a lot of imagining.
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When I was a teenager I was way into eastern spirituality and meditation, taoism. People think meditating is having no thoughts. The thoughts are still there. They speed through your mind like cars on a train. Meditation is not focusing on each individual car. You let the cars blur by, not trying to focus on the cars going by. It's a blur, and you them as a train going by not a bunch of box cars.
I bring this up because during some of the darker days in my life, I let time pass by me in such a way. Each day fading into the next, slipping through my fingers as though it were sand. It helped me not focus on the train car I was currently in.
Sorry this was so long winded. I just have shared your feelings for a long time throughout my life, and this stuff helped me through what I felt trapped in earlier on life. Addicted to spooky drugs. Homeless. No jobs. Felt like I was at the bottom on the ocean there was so much pressure. I hope you find your way through these feelings, but I definitely understand how you feel. I can't tell you for sure things will get better, but time will carry us forward.
Peace.
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Planet will be fine but that's like a couple million years in the future. Don't worry, our sun has billions of years before it expands and consumes our planet.
Nom nom
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sounds like you're doing a decent job of managing what you're using your brain for pretty well
i avoid most news and focus on my own day to day and look to make progress there. i stay informed but realise i'm just doing my little part and don't incorporate things that are not in my control to affect my mental health
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Spread awareness about it and change my actions to mitigate the impact of it if I am able to do so. For example by protesting or boycotting.
Only reading about things and taking no action tends to pile up the emotions.
