Comment on What infuriates me most is that this actually works on some people.

• Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its never late for that!

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m afraid I’ve moved beyond infuriated and into depressed.

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    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Then post into #mildlydepressed :)

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    • fakir@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Depression is a natural state of deep self-reflection amidst conflict, a mirror so to speak that helps you understand who you are, and as an extension, understand what it means to be human. The way out is only when you’ve figured the underlying root cause of that conflict. What is anger, what triggers this anger, what are insecurities, what motivates you into action and what paralyzes you into inaction. Maybe not depression, but deep self reflection is a necessary path to self actualization. It took me many years in depression to realize the conflict is internal and eternal. That there is an animal in all of us that is that is reactionary and instinctive and is easily triggered by rage, anger, & fear and that all reason and logic hides behind this animal. That when we see the whole world turn into animal, our fears revive the animal in us. Like game theory predicts, when you become selfish, I become selfish. That explains all conflict in the world and I mean all conflict. You may gain clarity and find yourself out of conflict and depression, yet it can still be upsetting to see the current state of the world. And I will say that despite all the terrible news these days, I’m still optimistic about humans doing alright in the long run, afterall we’ve survived so far and our ancestors have gone through much much worse.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Much much worse than global climate change?

        Just once. Also with global climate change that we weren’t even causing ourselves.

        It almost ended us before we started.

        nhm.ac.uk/…/human-ancestors-may-have-almost-died-…

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