No I’m not catastrophising.
The world is slowly lurching towards a fully fascist led America, India, Hungary, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Argentina.
Instead people are either ignorant or blaming “wokeism”* for their problems.
I have no clue what to do and this is literally a car crash in slow motion.
I’m despondent because I’m going to be crushed under the boot when the time comes and my morals get in the way of my survival instinct.
Humans are repeating the mistakes of the past. It’s just so anxiety inducing.
*Woke is a useless term promulgated by fascists to dog whistle the things they really want to hate - feminism, socialism, LGBTQIA+, immigration, brown/black people, equality and diversity.
Let's start with this: Can you do anything personally to save the world? I'm not talking incremental personal improvement rainbows and butterflies horseshit, I'm saying can you personally do anything to stop what is clearly a catastrophic trajectory?
If you can, do it. If you can't, which I believe nobody can at this point, it's time to stop worrying and live the life you have left.
Spend more time outside, learn to paint acrylics, go get some pussy.
Why torture yourself and live in misery? Why allow all the evil people trying to terrorize you to succeed? Fuck that noise.
Read this, it'll help: https://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
Behold, the unconscious class, pontificating about inner peace and enlightenment from their ivory tower of unearned privilege and willful ignorance
Its not about ignorance but being aware. Realising you can't change the external situation so you change what you can control.
So you instead choose silent complicity with injustice and evil? I can’t change geopolitics sure, but at the very least you can bear witness and raise your voice to make others aware. And then somebody else who sees that issue, might have the power to change something.
If we all said “Damn that sucks for George Floyd, but police unions and politicians are big and scawy institutions- let’s do absolutely fucking nothing and go on with our lives” that is moral bankruptcy.
Stop digging and admit you don’t care about others dude, there’s no good way out of this hole you built
Right now. I no longer have the energy to do what you say. The only thing I CAN do as individual is focus on my self.
I care about others, I also donate to charities, i care about.
Idk what you mean by "hole i built", it's not that serious as you are taking it to be.
I can't change your opinion about me (if you think, I'm evil) no matter how much I scream and yell. Everyone else sticks to their own positions in life, you and I are no different. It's hard to change someone else or make a difference without influence/power.
That's why its better to try and spend energy and time to create the life you want to live. Maybe then something can change and you may have the power to influence a small community/people.
I don’t think you’re evil, but this attitude is part of the problem that enables terrible people to get away with horrific acts. “Why didn’t the Germans stop the holocaust?” can be explained a lot of ways, but complicity and silence feature throughout the answers, along with the ghouls who encouraged it
For a while I did exactly as you are doing. I was super involved in tracking and witnessing police abuses and misconduct, watching the drip-drip-drip while the country sat idle - and you’re right, it’s super depressing to see an obvious issue and be unable to change it. I did step away for a while when it got overwhelming, but me ignoring a problem, simply permits those abuses to continue without criticism or exposure.
I have the social, geographic and ethnic privilege to not be routinely affected negatively by the issues in the world, but I refuse to turn that to mute complicity
You are 100% correct. But..
For me, I don't have the time to think globally.
I'm an 18 year old Asian male teenager - Middle Class Family.
I need to make money - help my parents financially hoping to retire them earlier. These are the closest people I can help. My loved ones
I have to stay in shape, fit and healthy (for the work I'm in)
Trying to work on my business for passive income.
Dealing with personal stress, issues and finances. (I'm in physcotherapy)
Do you still think as an individual, I have enough energy left to think about stuff that won't help me and my family.
You say that you used to think like me. That does not mean you're better or worse than me. It just means our priorities as individuals are different.