Don’t overextend yourself, concentrate on things that you actually can have impact on, and maybe even among them pick most important issue to you and act on it.
ICE turning into gestapo is immediate issue that we can do something about.
Greenland for example, what can we do about it? I personally think he is using Iceland as a distraction from Epstein (of course Denmark and rest of Europe should take this seriously).
After he removed Maduro noticed that they threw names of several countries, Iceland produced highest outrage, so they went with it.
I am actually thinking that the main goal is turning US into dictatorship, but to keep power they need an army inside of the country (gestapo). ICE is being used for that. But to keep them loyal he needs money. The problem is that traditionally Congress controls money and can cut it. This is where tariffs and Venezuela comes from. Notice that this revenue is outside if control of the Congress.
Epstein might have been a distraction from this, but actually was hurting him. He was struggling to change narrative, and finally with Greenland everyone stopped talking about it.
I agree, don’t bother. Not really much we can do. It’s not like we can do what the right wing did with covid. Or what they did with the border wall. Or what they did with podcast. Or what they did with comedy. Or what they did with left wing voice. Or what they did with Venezuela, twice. We can’t do any thing. Don’t over do it delete most of your accounts online. Or at least don’t ever comment on anything or create any content. Just draw everything you want to say on a piece of cardboard and go stand on 24th and Bloomington with it and then thar will change minds
I’m saying if you didn’t conserve yourself you will end up with psychiatric ward. Find one or two issues where you can have an impact and concentrate on them. There are more people so someone else will concentrate on others.
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.
my sanity saving hobbies are creative. i make music and i make food. they keep me alive, both literally and figuratively.
find small ways to inject joy into the things you do. similar to playing whammageddon at christmas. find tiny ways to rebel against the regime that chafes you. you know all those krasnov stickers you see vandalizing public property? carry around a sharpie and draw hitler mustaches on them. idk. you do you. the tiny acts of rebellion will spark life into your soul.
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.
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.
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:
Gotta love living in a timeline where ignorance helps fascism spread but paying attention takes a toll on your health and well-being.
Don’t overextend yourself, concentrate on things that you actually can have impact on, and maybe even among them pick most important issue to you and act on it.
ICE turning into gestapo is immediate issue that we can do something about.
Greenland for example, what can we do about it? I personally think he is using Iceland as a distraction from Epstein (of course Denmark and rest of Europe should take this seriously).
After he removed Maduro noticed that they threw names of several countries, Iceland produced highest outrage, so they went with it.
I am actually thinking that the main goal is turning US into dictatorship, but to keep power they need an army inside of the country (gestapo). ICE is being used for that. But to keep them loyal he needs money. The problem is that traditionally Congress controls money and can cut it. This is where tariffs and Venezuela comes from. Notice that this revenue is outside if control of the Congress.
Epstein might have been a distraction from this, but actually was hurting him. He was struggling to change narrative, and finally with Greenland everyone stopped talking about it.
I agree, don’t bother. Not really much we can do. It’s not like we can do what the right wing did with covid. Or what they did with the border wall. Or what they did with podcast. Or what they did with comedy. Or what they did with left wing voice. Or what they did with Venezuela, twice. We can’t do any thing. Don’t over do it delete most of your accounts online. Or at least don’t ever comment on anything or create any content. Just draw everything you want to say on a piece of cardboard and go stand on 24th and Bloomington with it and then thar will change minds
Ok, let me clarify it better
I’m saying if you didn’t conserve yourself you will end up with psychiatric ward. Find one or two issues where you can have an impact and concentrate on them. There are more people so someone else will concentrate on others.
I never said to ignore everything.
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.
my sanity saving hobbies are creative. i make music and i make food. they keep me alive, both literally and figuratively.
find small ways to inject joy into the things you do. similar to playing whammageddon at christmas. find tiny ways to rebel against the regime that chafes you. you know all those krasnov stickers you see vandalizing public property? carry around a sharpie and draw hitler mustaches on them. idk. you do you. the tiny acts of rebellion will spark life into your soul.
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.
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.
Wise words.
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:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes
Also revolutionary optimism