Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?

• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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