keccers
@keccers.eth
Everything genuinely feels so meaningless when you know the future is basically widespread desperation, poverty, and violence worldwide 😂 Woohoo I learned another worthless skill I ran another pointless mile I read another book I could have just asked an LLM about
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john 🌀
@know
I've been there! I ran the dystopian timelines gauntlet; had a breakdown in 2018. Came out the other side of anxiety, paranoia, and deep grief with a kind of freedom. Narratives of despair knocking around the skull are a shitty time. Sorry you're experiencing that. They aren't all that's happening though! You don't *know* how the future will turn out. You don't even *know* what when your next fart will arrive. The truth is, we have no fucking idea how we even got this far, let alone what will happen in the future. There are people doing good things. We have power to effect things too, if we want to. We also have the freedom to do nothing - which is cool. I like doing nothing. I've also found, for me, projecting into the future is only as useful as it provides materials to make empowered choices, here and now. Feel the feelings that are here and now, they may contain wisdom! Mindfulness can be great! Feel free to ignore or just take what is useful. Hope you're being gentle with yourself! Much love.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
😂 I mean, there is very little I can do. I am less sad about this — despair is the wrong characterization— and more astounded, that we have so much technological power and are broadly using it for lame means
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john 🌀
@know
That's cool. Astounded sounds like you know what could be done differently. What would you do if you felt more powerful?
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