Here's a question I'd love an answer to.
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Here's a question I'd love an answer to. How does everyone else cope with the rage? The rage with how shitty life is under neoliberalism, how much friction there is to trying to live a good life without destroying the environment or helping sustain the billionaires who are screwing everything. How do you cope? I'm not coping, I'm just almost perpetually angry, which doesn't feel like a healthy way to life.
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Here's a question I'd love an answer to. How does everyone else cope with the rage? The rage with how shitty life is under neoliberalism, how much friction there is to trying to live a good life without destroying the environment or helping sustain the billionaires who are screwing everything. How do you cope? I'm not coping, I'm just almost perpetually angry, which doesn't feel like a healthy way to life.
#neoliberalism #adulting@RichBartlett Meanwhile, I'm just always anxious. I have 4 different ways of thinking about it, one Buddhist, One Taoist, or existentialist and one historical. I had to learn these ways of thinking during therapy.
Buddhist: The next 20 years will be controlled by capitalism and authoritarianism of some form. Turning that ship around will take years to decades. Accept that. Accept the lives that will be lost, the long term damage to the planet that it will take decades to centuries to reverse. Accept that and mourn it. But accept it only so that you don’t fear it. The uncertainty is what gives you anxiety. This is all certain, accept it and you can see how the world is 20 years from now then, if you constantly keep working. Stay crippled and the damage will be maximal with no change. /1 -
Here's a question I'd love an answer to. How does everyone else cope with the rage? The rage with how shitty life is under neoliberalism, how much friction there is to trying to live a good life without destroying the environment or helping sustain the billionaires who are screwing everything. How do you cope? I'm not coping, I'm just almost perpetually angry, which doesn't feel like a healthy way to life.
#neoliberalism #adulting@RichBartlett Taoist: You cannot fight against the river. It is folly to try, and heartbreaking when you fail at it. You are one drop in an ocean of people and ideas. All you can do is make a tiny ripple. This might cause someone else to make a ripple, and another and another, until the course of the river is changed in time. Use the flow of time, don’t fight against it, nudge it, otherwise you are setting yourself up for failure, paralysis and suffering.
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Here's a question I'd love an answer to. How does everyone else cope with the rage? The rage with how shitty life is under neoliberalism, how much friction there is to trying to live a good life without destroying the environment or helping sustain the billionaires who are screwing everything. How do you cope? I'm not coping, I'm just almost perpetually angry, which doesn't feel like a healthy way to life.
#neoliberalism #adulting@RichBartlett Historical:You must treat this the next 20 years as already have happened, as a fixed point in time. However as a time traveler, you do have the power to make little changes to save a few lives and make things just slightly better. One time traveler can’t do much, but many can.
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Here's a question I'd love an answer to. How does everyone else cope with the rage? The rage with how shitty life is under neoliberalism, how much friction there is to trying to live a good life without destroying the environment or helping sustain the billionaires who are screwing everything. How do you cope? I'm not coping, I'm just almost perpetually angry, which doesn't feel like a healthy way to life.
#neoliberalism #adulting@RichBartlett Existential: Authoritarianism has always been the dominant global order since the advent of agrarianism. Even today it is the norm in most of the world and democracy is an anomaly. Standing up to the status quo, the global force of authoritarianism is ludicrous in its own right. Be that chaotic force of joyful lunacy, to put a thumb in the eye of authoritarianism knowing full well what a ridiculously massive task this is, and you may never see it in your lifetime but the long term impact is worth it.
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Here's a question I'd love an answer to. How does everyone else cope with the rage? The rage with how shitty life is under neoliberalism, how much friction there is to trying to live a good life without destroying the environment or helping sustain the billionaires who are screwing everything. How do you cope? I'm not coping, I'm just almost perpetually angry, which doesn't feel like a healthy way to life.
#neoliberalism #adulting@RichBartlett i have no answers really but... same. remembering that everything is temporary and allowing myself to laugh at all the absurdity helps sometimes
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Here's a question I'd love an answer to. How does everyone else cope with the rage? The rage with how shitty life is under neoliberalism, how much friction there is to trying to live a good life without destroying the environment or helping sustain the billionaires who are screwing everything. How do you cope? I'm not coping, I'm just almost perpetually angry, which doesn't feel like a healthy way to life.
#neoliberalism #adulting@RichBartlett after about 10 years, it gets easier.
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@RichBartlett i have no answers really but... same. remembering that everything is temporary and allowing myself to laugh at all the absurdity helps sometimes
@noiseician there is much to laugh at!
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Here's a question I'd love an answer to. How does everyone else cope with the rage? The rage with how shitty life is under neoliberalism, how much friction there is to trying to live a good life without destroying the environment or helping sustain the billionaires who are screwing everything. How do you cope? I'm not coping, I'm just almost perpetually angry, which doesn't feel like a healthy way to life.
#neoliberalism #adulting@RichBartlett my current coping strategy for the impotent rage at the current state of our world and the utter failure of our political and social systems to do anything effective or even allow anything effective to be done.
Is to dress up in an inflatable bear costume and dance at protests.
It is effective as street theater, but whether street theater does anything in the current context is a question.
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Here's a question I'd love an answer to. How does everyone else cope with the rage? The rage with how shitty life is under neoliberalism, how much friction there is to trying to live a good life without destroying the environment or helping sustain the billionaires who are screwing everything. How do you cope? I'm not coping, I'm just almost perpetually angry, which doesn't feel like a healthy way to life.
#neoliberalism #adulting@RichBartlett I mostly cope by tuning out from it. Not especially admirable perhaps, but not uncommon I think. My post hoc justification is that I only have so many spoons to spend, and I have to ration them. In a way I’m fortunate because I have a *lot* going on most of the time, so not much space for brooding. If I ever stopped to think about the world in any depth, I think I might go quite mad.
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@RichBartlett after about 10 years, it gets easier.
@RichBartlett Personally, It is a source of unending anger and resent that I am forced to watch the world go through what I went through decades ago, and there's not a god damn thing I can do about it but wait to see who survives. I know from experience that there's no chance of "saving" anyone that isn't already trying to pull themselves out of the kiddy pool they're drowning in.
*take it with a grain of salt, i'm not directing this at anyone in particular, nor am I all-knowing. These are just my experiences.
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Here's a question I'd love an answer to. How does everyone else cope with the rage? The rage with how shitty life is under neoliberalism, how much friction there is to trying to live a good life without destroying the environment or helping sustain the billionaires who are screwing everything. How do you cope? I'm not coping, I'm just almost perpetually angry, which doesn't feel like a healthy way to life.
#neoliberalism #adultingActivism.
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