I got rid of all the doom in my scrolling. Nowadays I wholesome scroll ❤️ it's doubly beneficial: I neither have to scroll as long, nor do I feel a crushing hopelessness when I'm finished ❤️
Sometimes I've heard people complain about how their feeds are just doom & gloom, then you ask them what sort of stuff they follow and it's the doom & gloom sort of stuff
The "filter all the doom out" option is still dystopian and fucked up. And arguably irresponsible, even.
The whole house IS ACTUALLY ON FIRE, but your proposed solution is to don earplugs and a blindfold, and inject yourself with a shitload of novocaine and opium, so you can go "this is fine" as you roast.
Yes, you've got every right to do that. Yes, fighting the fire is incredibly difficult (and may be impossible). However, pitching "just ignore the problems" as the sane solution? That's not actually valid. That's not actually sane.
Again: you can do it. I'm not judging you, per se. But sticking your head in the sand is not some kind of big-brain thing, that everyone should be doing, or else they're a "doomer."
Not OP, but it seems to me the assumption you're making here is that Ignoring problems = not listening to every problem at every possible moment on every platform. Nah. Fuck that. I don't come here to become informed on world issues. That'd be fucking stupid. This is a social media website. I come here from a distraction from the work I do.
Well thanks for your insight be there is room between staring at the fire in constant angst and sticking one's head into the sand.
I keep informed regularly albeit briefly and through non sensational media.
I also keep well informed adout the climate crisis and possible solutions through various science podcasts.
Staying sane allows be to make decisions that improve my daily life while helping a bit: walking to work, taking the train, buying local...
And you think that going insane in replies here is helping in any way? You live in an illusion too, but yours is even worse because you bother other people with your mental troubles.
Man, my 80 year-old parents, whose only income comes from DoorDash had their car die this week, on top of their furnace and A/C going out.
And we live in the US, where no one gives a fuck about the elderly.
So, respectfully, I'm not feeling particularly optimistic. The thousands I'm going to have to spend to keep them alive is going to add years of work before I can retire, and that's just the reality of living in this shitty, goddamn capitalist hellhole.
At least like four people will get to be even more disgustingly rich, though. Yay. Vote Biden and Trump, friends.
I think the point is not "don't care about bad things happening in your life," it's, rather, "don't get so upset about the bad things happening everywhere else first thing in the morning."
And we live in the US, where no one gives a fuck about the elderly.
36 cents of every U.S. tax dollar goes to social security and medicare. The elderly being the primary beneficiaries of these social programs. That's before we start talking about senior discounts, rent controlled age restricted communities, and a long list of other state, county and city programs designed to benefit the elderly.
I'm sorry to hear about your parents struggling. But stating pure lies is unacceptable.