I am tired of getting stuck in a doom scroll loop looking for soothsayers who will tell me the future. Nobody knows the future! And even if the bad thing happens, how it pans out and who will push back is all unknown! Being anxious about "inevitabilities" is just making me exhausted, and I wish it wasn't this omnipresent thing in the bac…
I am tired of getting stuck in a doom scroll loop looking for soothsayers who will tell me the future. Nobody knows the future! And even if the bad thing happens, how it pans out and who will push back is all unknown! Being anxious about "inevitabilities" is just making me exhausted, and I wish it wasn't this omnipresent thing in the back of my mind. The only thing I know for sure is that I am most likely going to keep living for the next few decades, as will a lot of other people, and the game doesn't just end when bad people make big gains, or when the "good" people do either! Like, we have to still live our lives and do things about it! Anyway, I am trying to stay off of Twitter, et. all, where the prognosticators seem to thrive because I find this hopelessness very immobilizing. But it seems to be absolutely everywhere I look right now.
Isn't it exhausting? Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (Resistance Live) maintains (and I agree!) that apathy and despair are forms of voter suppression. It's what people creating the chaos want for us. I'm going full Bartleby — I prefer not to do that for the chaos makers.
I am tired of getting stuck in a doom scroll loop looking for soothsayers who will tell me the future. Nobody knows the future! And even if the bad thing happens, how it pans out and who will push back is all unknown! Being anxious about "inevitabilities" is just making me exhausted, and I wish it wasn't this omnipresent thing in the back of my mind. The only thing I know for sure is that I am most likely going to keep living for the next few decades, as will a lot of other people, and the game doesn't just end when bad people make big gains, or when the "good" people do either! Like, we have to still live our lives and do things about it! Anyway, I am trying to stay off of Twitter, et. all, where the prognosticators seem to thrive because I find this hopelessness very immobilizing. But it seems to be absolutely everywhere I look right now.
I have to work hard to keep the inevitabilities from being an omnipresent echo in my head as well.
Isn't it exhausting? Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (Resistance Live) maintains (and I agree!) that apathy and despair are forms of voter suppression. It's what people creating the chaos want for us. I'm going full Bartleby — I prefer not to do that for the chaos makers.
Ooh that resonates