There is nothing to be optimistic about, so yes.
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The vibes on RedNote aren't so bad.
I'm just waiting to die at this point. Fuck this life. Fuck this world. I'd kill myself if I wasn't such a pussy. I keep living with the vague hope that things might get better, but deep down I already know it won't.
I see that you've posted a few times in the last hour or so; hope this means you're feeling a little better about things.
I'm fine, just needed to vent my deep down feelings. Thank you.
Nothing like shrews and coffee to get your mind off things ๐๐
Same page club, except the vague hope.
Honestly the vague hope was keeping me at my lowest until I learned to understand and completely accept that our world is ending by our own hands, detach from being on the human team, and just gawk at the freak show of the exploitative macro-cancer monkeys that we are with gallows fascination.
This is the same thing comedian George Carlin bragged about doing to find peace in his later years, BTW.
When you remove trying to root for us to be not horrible, we are a spectacular and peculiar thing to behold, a remarkable evolutionary oddity, like Pandas. Like how are we the apex predator?! It's nuts and hilarious.
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If you ever feel very down, make sure to channel your hatred of the world back out at the world, rather than inwards at yourself. Maybe you'll help make it a bit better <3
Start skateboarding ๐น, it helps.
I'd say you have issues that have little to do with the news. Talk to a counselor.
Iโd kill myself if I wasnโt such a pussy
If you kill yourself, the number of socialists will decrease. Don't you want capitalism fall?
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I'm in a good mood! :)
๐I envy you and applaud you at the same time (being serious here, not snarking).
Thank you. I found that if I don't doomscroll and just look up subjects I like.. Then easier to be on good mood.
If I may, Arts & Letters Daily has a lot of interesting links that generally aren't too overly tied to current events, and can provide a nice break from the world as usual. Aeon is also good.
I'll check that out. Thank you!!
It is and if you can't see it it's because you are being dragged down too.
I'm going to remark something nobody seem to be focusing on. Humans didn't evolve 1 million years to eat processed food and be around artificial everything.
Everyone seems to be doomscrolling
A combination of both. More bad mood going around, impacting you and causing you to perceive things more negatively.
Yeah, there's a gas leak everywhere and where just realizing it.
People have been trying to ignore the world so they can get their high for the last several decades to the point where one the largest companies advertising on the internet is one where you pay people who label themselves as "councilors" with barely training to gaslight you hopefully to feel better and people know brand name drugs for helping them feel better and suggest them to others if you are wealthy enough. And been struggling to hold onto that sense of normalcy at all costs of the world.
And all of that avoidance meant jack-shit when the real world changed anyways and it didn't just stay the same.
People likely feel lied to and that miserableness spreads like a virus of selfish people doing anything to prove themselves better than others at the cost of others.
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Who are you referring to as "the whole world", specifically? People on Lemmy? Leftists? Your friends IRL?