You all (and I) need to stop thinking about the future and what will happen if we maintain this course. It does not actually help. It feels like mastering the problem and mastering yourself and it isn't. You need to think about what to do when the opportunity arises and how to recognize opportunity. - ThreadSky

tznkai.bsky.social • 22 days ago

You all (and I) need to stop thinking about the future and what will happen if we maintain this course. It does not actually help. It feels like mastering the problem and mastering yourself and it isn't. You need to think about what to do when the opportunity arises and how to recognize opportunity.

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neuroticlesbian.bsky.social•22 days ago

For me i know it’s perseverating but i can’t help it. I’m young and am seeing my future get beaten to death

noghiri.bsky.social•22 days ago

The future is always in motion. Some opportunities are gone, but they were never the only ones. I do not know what the future will hold, but it will not only hold bad. I had two grandparents in Luzon in 1941. They left the Philippines right before Marcos' second term.

neuroticlesbian.bsky.social•22 days ago

I fear all the ones with true recovery are gone and we’re left with this pale husk

neuroticlesbian.bsky.social•22 days ago

My country is going to suffer, possibly likely for the rest of my life, for no good reason. I don’t know how to emotionally handle that dread as a patriot

acerbicotter.bsky.social•21 days ago

I'm not a patriot any more. No allegiance to the country I live in, only to the people I love and am apparently supposed to serve

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social•22 days ago

Probably not for the rest of your life- certainly not in the way you are imagining. People right now are overwhelmingly speaking from fear and pain, not from reason, and in such circumstances the good thing to do is to detach.

neuroticlesbian.bsky.social•22 days ago

My biggest paranoia is no.2 economy America and all the knock on effects of stuff like reserve currency shenanigans, along with intelligence sharing stuff and the like. That’s a paranoia i have to deal with but it’s really hard

eleanor.lockhart.contact•22 days ago

^ this

clirkus.bsky.social•22 days ago

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social•22 days ago

People in 1932 felt the exact same way, Liz.
So did people during the Black Death. So did people during the World Wars.
The origin of this feeling is not in the world but in your self. It is an illusory mental state.
The only truth of this reality is that it is transient.

seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social•22 days ago

Sorrow, joy, pain, pleasure, good, evil, tyrants and saints, all is dust, all is changing, nothing is promised but the turn of the wheel.

glennmuir.bsky.social•22 days ago

I just kinda wish our brains evolved to handle that concept. Nature is Nature, and I'm sure it doesn't the same views or morality or time, if ever, that we've developed, but MAN our brains just can't conceive well of anything beyond itself in the present, not even and especially cessation of itself.

noghiri.bsky.social•22 days ago

How do you know history is over? The trumpet has not yet sounded.

And even in Black '47, my ancestors still knew joy. Around then, Abraham married in Dublin, and then a few years later brought his family to America.

neuroticlesbian.bsky.social•22 days ago

Dublin Marriage sounds like a damn good time

noghiri.bsky.social•22 days ago

even in famine! He didn't come to America with much but he built a respectable furniture company afterwards

noghiri.bsky.social•22 days ago

by the time my grandmother passed a few years back, my grandfather had taken her to a Seattle mansion where they had spent decades. A comparatively cheap one, granted - but not bad for a guy born in Pangasinan to middle class merchants.

tznkai.bsky.social•22 days ago

And you also need to ground yourself. Ground yourself the banal mundane shit of life that makes any of this worthwhile. Spend time with friends. Play games. Consume art. Go to a kids kids birthday party. Life goes on because it must and eventually you will remember that you are part of life.

tznkai.bsky.social•22 days ago

And if it helps I'm saying this to you because I need to hear it. Humans are survivors. History is sin and savagery we survived it. You are a survivor. That is why you are here, now. And you will be here, tomorrow. And you will do what it takes to make sure that the people you love are there too.

mwolda.bsky.social•22 days ago

And no offense to Camus, but I think it’s ONE way. Not the ONLY way.

monkeypeter.bsky.social•22 days ago

You're on the clock, and this can all slip away days, not months.

gauaren.bsky.social•22 days ago

I fully understand what you're saying and I tend to agree but we have a Game Over scenario in climate change and that inevitable lurks in the background of any conversation about the future. It's simply not true that tomorrow is a guarantee. Obv it's unproductive to think about it as you say, though

gauaren.bsky.social•22 days ago

*inevitably

tznkai.bsky.social•22 days ago

Climate change will not cause a game over, it may cause war, famine and disease which would extremely suck, but again, humans have survived all of those things.

gauaren.bsky.social•22 days ago

I agree, but it's certainly a KO for society as we've known for a long time, and we can see the chances of reducing the damage are getting slimmer by the day. That just lurks in the background and is bound to create a novel source of psychic distress. I do agree with you that we shouldn't despair

gengarro.bsky.social•22 days ago

We quite literally aren't equipped to deal with negative information at this scale as individuals. For the vast majority of human existence, no single human has been required to know and respond to the suffering of millions of others. Even world leaders have to delegate!

cyniccriticcolin.bsky.social•22 days ago

Feels like Nash Bozard should take note from this advice. But instead reading his account is like watching a man willingly go insane from the madness outside.

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