Usually the balance of dark and light carry the day. Lately, it’s been more dark and the balance seems out of whack. I feel that too (I was going to say “in my bones”).
I feel okay, personally (other than being horrified by the polycrisis taking place in the world), but share your sense that we’re in the middle of a tectonic shift. Multiple friends, usually talkative, usually stable, have gone silent, and I know several people who seem to be having low level mental health crises.
It is a downward spiral. Worry, loss, wory, loss, worry andvmore loss.
Loss of future perspectives, worry over basic needs, losd of health, worry over future of kids, loss of mental health, worry over wars, etc.
I stopped caring about whatever bullshit Trump is saying and I feel quite good.
If you are feeling like something is off, it’s because you have anxiety, caused by news on social media and TV.
Easy fix for that.
When did you turn off your phone for a day?
It’s interesting that this comment is getting downvotes. Lately i’ve been seeing a lot of people trying to pass off bad mental health as valid political discourse, as if being healthy was only possible in a perfectly fair world which has never existed and probably never will.
Say what you will about the state of the world, but anxiety is not normal. Having depressive thoughts all the time is not normal. Living in profound nostalgia of everything from your childhood is not normal. Don’t normalize bad mental health, it’s not the world’s fault, cause it’s not a fault but it sure is your responsibility to fix.
Then when you’re stable and healthy, that’s when the real fighting back starts. Look at the assholes turning the world into shit, they have amazing agency and executive control. How are you going to beat that when you’re too anxious to pick up a phone and too depressed to leave your own bed ?
people are addicted to their misery. they would rather drag everyone else around them dwon than lift themselves up.
that has always been, but today the power of social media has enhanced this such that the mentally ill people think they are the healthy ones and that healthy people are the mentally ill ones.
every unwell partner I ever had, always always, tried to drag me into their bit of disability and inability, a couple times to the point of actively trying to sabotage my life and lifestyle where I was trying to build something. funny thing, was once i was single purposefully, my life skyrocketed because I wasn’t being dragged down by mentally ill people who wanted me to suffer and go no where like they were and saw my success as a threat to themselves.
I know. I’m 50 so I grew up before social media. It wasn’t like this. Not even close. I was trying to fit in, sure. But this social media thing has made a lot of users actually depressed for real. The comparison with other people is the worst part. People you never even meet.
It would be very good to take a long break from it for most people.
Yeah, since 2014 when they turned the algorithms on.
agreed. i remember when everyone wasn’t pigeon holed into their weird alternative realities and people thought you were crazy for believing crazy bullshit, but now they celebrate you for it as being heroic or something.
Which time was that?
Was that when all media was owned by a few corporations and had complete control of the narrative for decades?
ten years ago.
So when people lived in the oligarch funded alternate reality. Got it.
“look, things were so much better when this indiscriminate murder and surveillance by the police was limited to black and indigenous people, and the 3 television channels didn’t report 99% of it! I didn’t consent to get colonized!”
The sun is too damn high!
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Ya know a dr can do some tests for ya
yeah I just went through how I can’t see one doc without a referal from a doc that has to be from the medical group but my primary care is not from that group but the group he is in has no one appropriate who will take my insurance so I need to change my pc to see if I can get a referal to see the doctor I need to. We have a grand country. Adding @etherphon@piefed.world to let you know how it would be tough even if you did.
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yeah wtf is that. so they would give you the shot if you had not stepped on a nail? what medical we have here is basically theater.
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lmao
good luck with that
Obviously everything is off, we’re falling into tyranny. Anybody wants to take action, look in my post history or PM me.
Everyone seems scared to talk about what they’re scared of even though we all know. Even around the like-minded. It’s like saying it out loud makes it real and worse.
we are living in a panopticon and people know anything they do or say can and will be used against them, no matter how harmless or obvious.
Oh yeah. Not sure how much is a us in particular thing. I think the last thing I complained about here is paper towels but I really feel like everything. Absolutely everything is just not working as well as it used to. I blame worker reductions and things just not being maintained as well. I think they are requiring folk to do more such that they can’t do it as well and they have lost knowledge on how things work but penny pinching on maintenance. Combined with little to no real oversight and by and large inspection is done internally and that is a good place to pinch pennies. I sorta feel like the country is going like the soviet union. Its like we talked about how inefficiently they ran but they still had cities and people working their jobs and going about life. Similarly we do and people are like see its fine because things are still happening. Its such a slow degredation.
What dose of GP1s are you on because they really do that
Not on any of that.
WB Yeats thought things were off back in 1919.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Michael_Robartes_and_the_Dancer/The_Second_Coming
At least in the US, a big factor is wondering just how fucked up things are going to be on November 4. Or if the puppet masters will conspire to cancel the general election entirely. Makes it hard to plan for the future, wondering if an actual revolution is unfolding.
Nah, i dont think they are that worried. They are already in full gerrymander mode right now to get ready for it. The other option could happen, but that one will really have people looking so I am sure they would rather avoid it as much as possible. Its the nuclear option.
I get the feeling that things will simmer until October-ish, and if they get the hint that the vote might not go their way, things will start to happen very fast. A conservative will abandon democracy before their party.
There’s ultimately really no reason for them to completely dismantle democracy. Republicans know they can lose big in 2026 and 2028 and still regain power in just a few years. It’s already guaranteed that whatever Democrats get elected won’t really do anything to change the circumstances that resulted in Republicans winning. And they will not prosecute Trump and his co-conspirators for their crimes. And Democrats don’t offer the working class anything, so the Republican message of “we’ll make other people’s lives worse to make your life better” resonates with people. They’re the only party actually offering to help people.
There’s just no reason for Republicans to abandon democracy all together. They’ll happily tilt the scales heavily in their favor, but completely abandoning democracy would mean civil war. And they’re already doing quite well in our existing flawed democracy. Why risk it all when you’re already winning?
Ultimately living standards are declining because of increased wealth inequality. And Democrats aren’t going to do anything to fight that. So Republicans at most will be out of power for another cycle.
Republicans don’t need to destroy democracy. They’re already in complete control in our current system. And Democrats, if elected in 2026 and 2028, are already promising to do everything in their power to make sure MAGA returns to power in 2032.
It’s been off since covid for me. 2020 is where I lost a lot of faith in humanity. Masks off (literally) on selfishness, greed, fascism, and anti-intellectualism. Corruption blatantly on display. Decorum and civility have taken a massive hit. It’s been downhill since.
2016 for me. The moment a person like Donald Trump can win a presidential election is the moment that decency was completely dead. The worst people were suddenly empowered to be as terrible as they want to be. They felt justified in their racism, bigotry, disrespect for others, and hatred. It’s only been stoked more and more since then. Then, yes, Covid was the gasoline on the fire.
whats funny is it happened close to brexit. I had a friend were I was making fun like but I will be sober in the morning thing because we would just have the term and be done with it but then I found out it was not so temporary.
Masks off (literally) on selfishness, greed, fascism, and anti-intellectualism.
If only there had been a higher delta in survivability between the vaxxed and unvaxxed, the pro-plague nutters could have removed themselves more thoroughly and effectively from existence.
Unfortunately far too many of them still walk among us.
Well Max Laughlin thinks that since the LHC went on we switched dimensions or some shit so maybe thats it
