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How do you cope with the amount of shit that goes on in the world? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Particularly - America.

I personally have found that, I live in the past to cope. Nostalgia is my drug. It sometimes doesn't help because all it does is that it makes me yearn and beg for things to be back to where things were. Because it warps my mind into opening time capsules whenever I watch an old show or listen to an episode of some niche radio show that long stopped producing new material.

However, it helps because, it at least reminds me that there are some things that I can revisit. If I couldn't revisit anything, play the games I played, read the books I read, watched the movies/shows I used to, then I'd be up shit's creek because I'd have to face the fucked up things people consider what are the 'best that's offered'.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I read theory so I can better understand why the world functions in the way that it does and better predict where its heading. That's the first step in knowing how to make things better. Eventually, when I get the chance, organizing will be the way to put theory to practice and directly work towards making the world a better place.

Trying to ignore or hide from the world around me doesn't make it any less scary, only understanding it better does, and understanding is useless without action.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol. Welcome to chasing a pipe dream or crippling depression.

The answer is largely as simple as socialism plus Kant with some secular Jesus because any system that condones human exploitation will eventually implode due to psychopaths' willingness to sacrifice others for power.

But literally basically everything is done wrong to maximize exploitation. Housing, schooling, medicine, food... All fucked to make the richest richer.

Liberalism is the slow road to fascism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is idealist, not materialist. Maximizing human exploitation isn't a law of physics, but a byproduct of modes of production like Capitalism. Socialism is not a simple answer, but it is correct regardless. Moreover, Marxism already has a philosophical component in Dialectical Materialism, why replace it with Kant?

I suggest you read theory yourself.