Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
By looking at it from a larger perspective. You can always get worked up about things but if you zoom out, you see that most of it is just a temporary trend. Some things trend well, some trend poorly, but these tend to be blips in the span of a lifetime.
Especially when comparing with the past you will see that things really aren’t all that bad in general.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That’s a great way to look at it if you’re coming from a place of privilege where it doesn’t affect you directly. The Palestinians don’t get to say “it’s just a trend”. It’s not just a trend for the immigrants being rounded up in concentration camps. Or for the homeless and mentally ill Trump has just declared will also be rounded up. And for the LGBTQ who are soon to follow.
And the destruction of the environment we all rely on to survive isn’t “just a trend”.
You’re only able to have the luxury of thinking it’s a trend because it hasn’t affected you. Yet.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Ok, sure. I do want to point out that I simply answered the question. I don’t deny my state of luxury yet also don’t feel that this bout of whataboutism is entirely warranted.