How do you cope with the amount of shit that goes on in the world?
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First of all, Kant’s principle of humanity is just one component of his philosophy. Boiling down all of Kant’s corpus to saying that that that is it “in short” is ridiculous. You can’t just separate the principle of humanity from Kant as a whole. The categorical imperative is not just the principle of humanity. You also said that it is socialism plus Kant but didn’t even seem to read my explanation of immaterialism in Kantian metaphysics.
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Because you asked what I meant. Of course what I meant didn't include your response to it.
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Look on the bright side, when's the last time you ever heard of the word famine?
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It’s because your thoughts aren’t inline with Kant’s actual philosophy and is an oversimplification of it to just one principal which bastardizes both what socialism is and what Kant wrote.
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Avoid news. Turn off internet. Literally, stop looking for like two weeks. The difference is palatable. I've used this technique a handful of times over the years.
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That's a valid and useful thought.
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Organize in your community. Doing something/anything will help alleviate the anxiety and stress you are feeling.
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One thing I've been doing is doing random online classes instead of doom scrolling. There's a ton of free ones that you can do at your own pace and spend an hour or two each day learning new stuff. Just generally being more mindful and curating my media inputs and replacing algorithmic rage inducement with better stuff. Here's a few examples, but there's tons all over the web:
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As long as there's a chance of revolution, I'll stay alive to see it. I don't see a reason to take my own life when I'll soon have an opportunity to give it willingly.
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There is always something going on. The world is always falling apart. The locations just vary.
In other words, this too shall pass. Do what you can to make the world a better place, survive, and let go of what you cannot control. Can't carry the world on you shoulders all the time. Sometimes it has to save isself or deal with the consequences.
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Turn off your phone and enjoy real actual life as in the situation right in front of you. Make it happy. Fuck the noise.
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Oh look. I’m not the only one. Additionally I started reading (I would say “again” but that would be a lie) and engage in smaller social circles instead of the global rambling. It’s actually been a nice experience so far. Sadly the reality around me still exists though but nothing I can do
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Before the election I was extremely smart and added a couple of fascists’ names to my Lemmy post-filter. Halcyon.
But now? I can’t imagine how I could possibly curate a visit to c/all without details that are more demoralizing than any human should ever hear about.
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I remember when the worst president in the history of the United States lied enough to invade Iraq again. And then he was reelected!
That practice round of excruciating righteous indignation took some of the sting out of being reminded that Americans are not my favorite voters.
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Read books.
