keccers
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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 🌀
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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
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😂 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 🌀
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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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keccers
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The whole problem with the times is that people rightfully live in a scarcity mindset which in turn justifies low morality, desperate acts. I’d probably make it like, a smidge less overt that mass joblessness was in the plans for society. That would be a start
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john 🌀
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I'm not sure everyone is rightfully living in a scarcity mindset. I think there are some people who live in abundant realities. In fact, it might be when those people are living in a scarcity mindset that they act in ways that cause objective scarcity for others. And on joblessness, is your issue with the fact that it's in the plans for society, or that it's being overtly broadcasted that it's in the plans?
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keccers
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I shouldn’t generalize (“everyone”) but many do, and I mean this purely from an economic perspective. The vast majority of people cannot afford what they used to be able to, and we can see that via changes in consumer spending. Housing is the least affordable it has ever been. And on and on. I think I could take issue with both joblessness itself and the broadcasting — but overtly broadcasting doesn’t help. It compounds the inherent pressure of the economic situation. It pulls future pain forward
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john 🌀
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I see what you're saying more clearly now. Wealth inequalities are indeed f*cked right now. This is what I was pointing to when I was saying that there are people living in abundance operating like they are in scarcity, doing things like hoarding resources, which means that others are living in more desperate situations. Re: joblessness, I think I'm in favour of not delaying the pain of a situation if it means that people have a better chance at processing and responding. The way I've been responding to these issues is by distributing resources and understandings that I know can empower people to see their situations differently and act to move them in the direction they desire. It would be easier if people didn't have to worry about their next meal, health bills, and housing, though. People in survival mode are less able to make balanced decisions. I sometimes wonder if it is all a resource distribution problem. That seems like it should be solvable. You may know more than me. What do you think?
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