Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?
grue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Of course we’re fucking tired of the constant negativity! But that’s because the reality is negative, so WTF is the alternative? Are you suggesting we should be delusional instead?
He’s suggesting balancing the content. If all you read is terrible, outrage inducing news, yes, you’re life is far worse off. It’s outside our your sphere of influence and reading the same news for the third time won’t make you more informed.
The only thing it will do is make you feel angry, helpless, and less understanding of nuance. Keep it going for longer enough and, congratulations, you’ve radicalized yourself.
I don’t mind the idea of being radicalized, as long as I’m on the right side of history.
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Keep it going for longer enough and, congratulations, you’ve radicalized yourself.
That’s some ironically-“negative” spin for “breaking you out of your complacency.”
You’re out of line pal !
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Most things in the world are better than they ever have been and they are still constantly improving. Internet and social media just points a huge spotlight on the things we still need to work on and ironically social media itself is one of those things. We’ll never run out of negative things to pay attention to. Never. Doomscrolling to the point of mental exhaustion and sense of helplessnes is only making things worse. We all need to touch grass. The real world is not like social media tries to convince us.
This is mostly a you problem though. The world has always been fucked and will always be fucked. That’s life, but not your life. You need to worry more about you, your happiness, your mental well being. You need to let go of the thought that your happiness depends on the world. You could literally be living in a warzone and be happy. People do that. Sure there will be rough days, maybe more than happy days, but people will find happiness no matter what. They find it in themselves or in eachother or in the work they do. You need to find the things that matter to you.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw
Well yes, but you don’t have to feel shit while doing it, is what I’m trying to say. If you are capable of doing something to change the world, than that fits into the “you” perspective. If you aren’t capable to do anything, it doesn’t fit in the “you” perspective. But if you feel personally involved with the world problems and are not able to influence it. You need to change something so you either get some influence somehow or feel less involved, if not, you’re gonna feel a lot of shittyness for nothing
Well yes, but you don’t have to feel shit while doing it, is what I’m trying to say.
I don’t, though. Not everybody reacts to the negativity in the same way, in terms of letting it affect their mood.
A controversial character that shall remain unnamed once said:
Clean up your own room before you go out fixing the world.
being delusional is better than being mentally ill.
WTF does being mentally ill have to do with anything? That’s a false dichotomy.
What the “constant negativity” should be doing is galvanizing you into action to try to fucking fix shit!
What the “constant negativity” should be doing is galvanizing you into action to try to fucking fix shit!
Should. But is it? I don’t think so. It’s just paralyzing and making us all feel miserable.
Hold the door open for a granny. Pick up a trash from the street. Look the cashier into eyes, smile and say thank you. Now you’ve already had a bigger positive impact in the world than a year worth of complaining online does.
Should. But is it? I don’t think so. It’s just paralyzing and making us all feel miserable.
Speak for yourself. Outside of Lemmy, my biggest hobby is bike/ped/transit and zoning reform activism.
It is not a false dichotomy though.
Being mentally healthy and well integrated does not require you to live in a perfect, just and balanced universe. It requires you using all the cognitive, psychological and philosophical tools at your disposal to deal with the universe on its own terms.
Keeping yourself depressed for the sake of “not being deluded” is in itself a mental illness symptom, and only has negative consequences for everyone.
independantiste@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Objectively the world is a much better place than it was even 30 years ago. Child mortality rate, global education, life expectancy, extreme poverty and many more are subjects that have seen drastic improvements and will continue to get better. The reality is apart from a few cases, the world is much better than it was and it will keep getting better. And unless a new world war comes in, nothing will stop this progress.
grue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Most of those things were built on cheap oil and a stable climate, which means they were borrowed and now the bill is coming due.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Climate change will destroy our civilisation unless we act quickly enough (and some of the damage is already baked in). So it’s simply not a given that society will continue to get better, that’s really up to governments and their people to make it happen.