It must be nice to be privileged enough to ignore politics and be happy. I could, but my employer doesn’t. My landlord doesn’t. CEO 's don’t. They lobby to keep prices high, wages low, and workers powerless…
It must be nice to be privileged enough to ignore politics and be happy.
Is “privileged” what we’re calling it when when you’ve resigned yourself to being powerless? That seems less like privilege and more like despair.
my employer doesn’t. My landlord doesn’t. CEO 's don’t. They lobby to keep prices high, wages low, and workers powerless…
If the privileged people are engaged with politics and the disenfranchised people are powerless, wouldn’t this suggest that engaging with politics is the privilege and its being reserved for the exceptionally wealthy?
I don’t think they meant to bite at anyone. I feel compassion for anyone who has been beaten down by our system and doesn’t have any fight left. I still have a little, and I take that statement as encouragement to keep fighting. Despair and depression are brutal and I’ll keep fighting for both of us.
I think you’re correlating people who have stopped engaging with people who don’t care.
I have panic attacks when I think about the state of our world. I block out most posts that trigger me. If I didn’t, I’d be a nervous wreck sitting in misery if I didn’t. That doesn’t mean I don’t know what’s happening, I’m very aware and I keep up, but I’m also not going to have a constant feed of anxiety forced in my face.
We used to be informed if we read a daily newspaper. Don’t confuse “refusing to have constant anxiety” with privilege.
Being able to participate in politics and democracy is a privilege in itself, imo. Not as much as not having to do so anyway (under a democracy, dictatorships don’t count), but I still think it’s a privilege.
Not to brush off your problems, though. Sorry you’re dealing with all of that.
look at that privilege ☞
I think the promise here is the idea it will bring happiness. As any good buddhist will tell you it will just avoid suffering.
Posted a list of 20 non-political active communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world if people are interested
I’m trying to take a cue from Trevor Noah (I didn’t like his time on the daily show but I still think he has some good takes):
Read the news only a few times a week. That’s enough to be informed. We created a 24 hours news cycle that makes us more anxious, angry, and scared than we need to be. Live your life, focus on those around you, stop yelling at people on the internet who have made up their mind.
It seems like a good balance of self care and being informed. You have to set boundaries.
Recommend using Ublock Origin filters to filter out all the crap. My browsing experience is so much better without being bombarded by the same bs all day everyday.
If you aren’t out there commenting on political issues someone else will be. You should give your 2cents so that discussions reflects accurately what the users think. If only 1 group of people comment then lurkers will think that group is the majority.
If you aren’t out there commenting on political issues someone else will be.
If you’re participating in a social media ecosystem full of artificial content and bot-engagement, you’re not engaging in any kind of interpersonal debate. You’re just arguing with robots.
At a very absolute minimum, you should be engage with people IRL. Log Off. Touch the fucking grass.
If only 1 group of people comment then lurkers will think that group is the majority.
This is why the best use of your time is to go onto the 8chan boards and spend all your time posting.
This is why the best use of your time is to go onto the 8chan boards and spend all your time posting.
That is some slick use of the statement and some thick sarcasm and it got a chuckle out of me.
Also terrifyingly enough I think probably the thought process of the people on those sites but viewing the rest of the world as the majority.
Social media is filled with bot content but its still filled with hundreds of millions of real people looking at those posts and comments and subconsciously forming an opinion. My comment applies to IRL as well.
If everyone on the left logged off and touched grass and entire generation of kids growing up on the internet would move to the right. If you dont want to participate that’s fine, im only giving my opinion on why you should consider doing so.
Social media is filled with bot content but its still filled with hundreds of millions of real people
Picking through my email spam for the real people, so I can debate them.
If everyone on the left logged off and touched grass and entire generation of kids growing up
Would have more time to spend with their left-leaning family and friends, rather than watching them stare at their fucking phones arguing with nobodies.
You intentionally miss the point so hard id rather be arguing with a bot.
You know what? I take it back. Your time is best served arguing with people on the internet.
Where did I say your time was best served arguing with people? What an odd takeway from my original comment.
Great point. This is why I strive to stay vocal with my boring opinions like “all the trans people I have met were pretty chill and just want to be acknowledged” and “I’m not sure the average politician has the rest of our best interests in mind” and “truck nuts make me laugh”.
By relegating ourselves to unhappy lives, we are making the world a better place!
I think, in reality, those bad people are just dragging us down with them.
I’m willing to forgo my happiness to snark at NAZIs.
That’s why they say, would you rather be happy or right?
The older I get the more I wish I was one of those people who are able to completely ignore what’s going on around them and completely invent an alternative for themselves. Those are some of the happiest people I know.
The aesthetic lifestyle is one of divorcing oneself from the world in order to achieve the nirvana of oblivion.
It is less the secret to happiness and more the secret to the absence of sadness.
Ascetic*. I assume the aesthetic lifestyle is primarily shared on instragam.
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isn’t the monks response inherently political? are we to assume he himself is not happy?
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