You see what you want to see.
Things aren’t great but not “everything is shit.”
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This dude explains(in a couple minutes) why boomers are how they are and why they are breaking down society
It isn't. Yes there's lots of bad stuff, but there's also lots of good stuff too
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because your eyes are covered in them
The second law of thermodynamics.
Either greed or hate, depends on the thing that is shit.
Not everything is shit. It's just not as good as it used to be
The correct answer is usually the most boring one.
We used to be looking forward; those have always been the good times. Now, we either look backwards, or at the immediate. It's hard to be optimistic and drive in the right direction when you're constantly staring in the rear view mirror.
Also: corporations and governments learned a lot from Nazi Germany, and Goebbles in particular. Not in the usual Godwin's Law sense, but in how to manipulate the populous by controlling messaging. And they improved on it; rather than doing it through fiat, which breeds resistance, they've done it through good old Capitalism: the biggest media are owned by big concerns, and the messaging is controlled by editors.
There is free media, but that's a mixed bag. That gets you InfoWars and Rush Limbaugh, too.
The key is to live in the moment. Looking backwards or forwards is a rookie mistake.
It's designed that way so that your work goes to others. That's the base of all of the world's problems.
Capitalism/greed, religion/racism & hate, selfishness/shortsightedness
The United States Supreme Court decided everything should go to shit on December 12, 2000.
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If everything I see in the news all the time makes me feel like the world is shit, well that's just unhealthy.
So I've subscribed to some good news channels on YouTube, and I try to limit the amount of bad news that I digest.
Staying informed of what's going on in the world is great, but not if it comes at the price of your sanity.
So read some good news, write a list of things you're grateful for, take a walk in a park, meditate in the sun a bit, and remember that overall people are kind (free open source software exists, volunteering exists, food banks exist, etc).
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I see everything as a risk, since I'm living a double life. It is often that the road for me to leave as an apostate is narrow, and chances of me being free is close to none. But I don't stop there. I remind myself that I have friends who looked after me, and I mourn those who passed away from terminal illnesses. Grief seems to talk to me not in stages, but as a constant companion. I balance everything with the good and the meditative. It doesn't always work, but I like to try them everyday anyway. Good luck buddy.
We had a huge population of genuinely evil people who were locked away in the rural south so they could only abuse black people around them.
Then social media gave these people a voice and politicians realized they could pander to the trash with funding from the billionaires and that's enough to keep them in power indefinitely.
Because you're inside a septic tank
The decisions being made regarding how to deploy and operate the Internet appear, to me, to betray a fundamental lack of understanding regarding just how incredibly complex the information environment within a healthy society actually is, and how much people depend upon it to maintain the basic functions of human life.
It feels to me as though early man discovered fire and immediately decided to burn down every single forest they encountered so dangerous beasts wouldn't have anywhere to hide.