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I'm not tuning out. Occasionally I wish I could, but that doesn't align with my core values. Doomers aren't the ones that tune out, people that primarily consume "reality" TV, aren't "political, teehee," couldn't point to the middle east on a map with a gun to their head, and are habitually bubbly and optimistic about any topic despite living in this world are the ones tuned out living in blissful willful ignorance.

You have to be paying attention to have hope beaten out of you in the first place. You may not like doomers, but they are burdened with knowledge, aka well informed. That's why they bother the ignorant, they bum them out.

Oh yeah Earth will be fine. It's survived worse than us and will be here long after we've died, almost certainly by our own hands. We aren't even the first mass extinction event to come from a mistake from within instead of an external force like a meteor but instead of runaway, macro-metastatic evolution. There was a blight of early trees in the carboniferous period that stored too much carbon leading to an ice age because the means of their efficient decomposition had not yet evolved, causing the opposite of what we're doing, leading to an ice age.

Life on Earth suffered, many species went extinct, as some do constantly even in good times, but Earth always recovers. We sadly fashion ourselves masters of this word rather than children and subjects, but we couldn't sterilize this planet if we wanted to. There's life in acid pools, in crevices we can't find, in depths we can't reach. Until the Sun's output changes enough in a couple billion years, life will most likely find a way here.

I take comfort, just as George Carlin did, in knowing that we will just be an evolutionary cul-de-sac, quickly forgotten by the living Earth we tried to dominate and rape as our private property.

The funniest bit to me is that for all the idiotic religions people kill one another over, demanding theirs has the largest penis and other believers of gods with smaller penises must convert or die, it was a rare thing indeed for humans to actually respect their actual God, their actual creator, the real one they can and do see every single day, the one we are, in objective fact, made of. Oh the dark irony of desperately seeking approval from a fictional "sky daddy" creator that we often anthropomorphize out of vanity to look and act and think like us, while raping, plundering, polluting, and defacing our true God as thoughtlessly as breathing.

Same reason I vote for least cruel of two cruel options.

I value knowledge and wisdom as its own end, knowing it comes at the expense of contentment/comfort.

We all get to choose what we value most, and usually it comes at something else's expense. I would rather stare into the void so long as the void is something true then be deluded, blissfully ignorant and happy when that happiness requires willful ignorance, another way of saying choosing not to know what is available to know.

I think a lot of the "don't think about it" willful ignorance is a big reason us sapient beings inflict such cruelty on one another and sentient creatures that feel real pain so easily. Empathy, knowing everyone else has an inner world and feels as deeply as you do, is something you have to allow yourself to know and feel that most don't care about so long as they "get theirs."

What you're describing is exactly why we will go extinct, legions of people choosing to take what they can without the detriment of really internalizing who will be hurt and how deeply by it. Those best at that skill, sociopaths, run this world and are the primary reason our species' time is ending so they can "win," feel accomplished, and ultimately scurry into their little luxury bunker tombs to sip expensive bourbon and reminisce about how high their ego scores got and how awesome it was while luxuriating several feet of concrete under the fruits of their own fine work until their heart gives out or one of their very expensive air/water/waste/hydroponic systems fail.

Humanity should have been humanity's business, not finding "rational self-interest" bliss. But we made our choice and our bed. 🤷