This just in, ignorance is still bliss
Yeah, but ignorance makes you ignant.
jokes on you guys I’ve already moved on to woke 2 and my mental health is great
Protip: dot ml might not like “woke 2.0” for too long.
Good. Fuck’em.
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Most of the MAGA sphere spends all day watching all the things the news people tell them to be afraid of. I don’t buy this for a second.
Yeah I think I recently have read here on Lemmy that the amygdala is bigger for MAGA, so I think the opposite is true indeed.
Which would also make more sense, because of all the irrational anxieties those scum has…
I believe its called “amygdala maxxing”
You gonna tell me a shit post may not be factually accurate?
Shit but verify, that’s been my motto.
Sir, my pearls have been clutched!
Good
It was maybe a month or two ago that an article showed that studies like these - all usually done as surveys - are highly susceptible to changes in input from users, just by word choice. In their example, they showed that if you use terms like ‘mental health’ while surveying people, a discrepancy emerges between non-conservatives and conservatives. This discrepancy disappears when you instead ask other questions, such as ones about sleep, worries , and fears.
So I don’t really know if I overall trust the data on happiness overall.
You telling me you dont trust the data for a shitpost?
Simple worldviews tend to be happier. Ignorance is bliss.
Honestly, I am pretty happy as a woke person.
The trick is to watch less news and do more things to actually change anything.
I’m part of a mutual aid group that delivers groceries to people every 2 weeks.
We sometimes get urgent requests on off-dates.
I don’t think I can explain how satisfying(?), motivating(?) it was to randomly get off work one evening last week with instructions to buy $50 worth of groceries for someone I’d never met and to drop it off.
To be part of someone finding relief in a terrible situation.
The hardest part was honestly finding a group with flexible opportunities that I could contribute to regularly. Most organizations that ask for volunteers often want business-hour availability, and 6+ mo commitment - ie, good for retirees.
Yep, (social) media is optimized in fueling your emotions, and well the strongest emotions are negative, so it’s mostly optimized towards that.
Avoiding this, doing something more healthy leads to a better mental (and likely physical as it’s connected) health IMO/IME.
“People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time.”
Yeah… there are normal people and then there are psychopaths, who are unable to feel empathy towards others.
No shit. it’s really depressing seeing all of those filthy pedophiles and nazis getting sexually aroused by dead kids.
and even more depressing watching 2/3rds of Americans refusing to deal with 80 million terrorists in America.
Eighty million terrorists? Think I finally get what “blue maga” means x(
let me guess. you believe in a simple concept: being a bystander is better than resisting fascists. and you love letting MAGA bang your wife and daughter.
I believe you that you, personally, in this moment, are acting exactly like the worst red hat pricks. And that just like them you’re acting against your own interests, making your life (and everyone’s you touch) just a little bit worse. Because just like them you’re a useful idiot. Keep your words out of my mouth.
Everyone who shows up to wave a sign at one or two No Kings parades as the extent of their “resistance” is a MAGA enabler as far as I’m concerned.
Start fighting or stay the fuck home, you virtue-signaling clowns.
and let me guess… you would fight but you don’t have the balls to do anything other than jack off to ICE agents slipping on ice.
Ah, of course, Canadians must show up and fight your fight for you.
How’s the fighting going?
I’d argue there’s nothing normal about being a well-adjusted person in a terminally ill society.
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society” - some guy
I would rather be a John Brown in a horrid world than be “sane man” in the same such world and boy am I about to give into my madness and zealotry.
As they say, (willfull?) ignorance is bliss.
Smarter people are more likely to be depressed. Just a filter there not a direct correlation.
Wouldn’t say their ignorant, most people know and choose to believe what they believe regardless
If you aren’t at least a little bit anxious and depressed about the state of the world, you haven’t been paying attention.
I also refuse to believe that all the racist, misogynist, bigoted snowflakes out there are living anxiety free, considering how quickly they blow up at the sight of a pronoun.
Yeah, they seem to be more afraid of shit they made up than anybody else.
Like part of the reason small town conservative types don’t like the ideas of cities is because they’re scared of being mugged.
Life would be easier if I just believed that I am superior and that my president is good, too bad I have a brain 🙃
Having empathy in this society run by psychopaths is depressing and anxiety-inducing indeed.
It bleeds into everything in this whole place. You know when you’re using something — a government system, a website, a support line, an application — and it feels like nobody thought about how shitty the experience would be for you? That’s what it feels like to live in a society that has no empathy. The people that design these systems do not give a shit about how you’ll feel being subjected to them, because they have no empathy and have never considered nor cared what your experience would be like.
I am a somewhat empathetic person.
I was raised in a family of people that had no empathy.
My grandmother met all of the criteria to be labeled as a sociopath, psychopath, something, and she raised her kids accordingly.
So when I was a kid, like my little sister would grab my arm and rake her nails down my arm to just grate as much skin off as she could because she was upset over something.
And I would complain, and I would be told that maybe I shouldn’t have upset her.
And also being a kid, sometimes I would cry.
And my grandmother came to me and was like, you’re bigger than her, why don’t you just do something about this?, implying that I should physically beat my younger sister up.
And I said, I do do something about it. I cry.
She thought that was hilarious. She told that story as a joke any time I was brought up for the rest of her life.
To me, when I see someone else crying because of something I did, that causes me emotional pain because I’m normal.
So I was attempting to cause emotional pain, not on purpose, but because I was actually hurt, as punishment for the action that my psychopath sister, who was raised by my psychopath mother, who was raised by my psychopath grandmother, had taken.
But the concept of feeling emotional pain as the consequence of your action choosing to hurt another person is and was so alien to the people in my family that it being explained to them comes across as humor.
Needless to say, I don’t associate with my family anymore. I have not talked to any person that I am blood related to in four months, and even that was just a quick text.
People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.
It’s very much the same for being woke when opening your eyes to be woke today is like eating lunch in a room full of dead bodies.
People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.
I feel for you. At least some members of my family are either psychopaths, have narcissistic personality disorder, or both. I think the comorbidity there is pretty common.
The lifelong damage caused by being raised around sociopaths is real — as is the continuing damage from living in a country run by them.
oh yeah, if you come out of this whole event cycle, whatever the hell it is as normal, then something’s wrong with you, lol
I always thought it was funny how tough that steak seems based on his chewing.
