Comment by throwanem
4 days ago
Honestly, sometimes I wonder if most people these days kinda aren't at least that age, you know? Or less inhibited about acting it than I believe I recall people being last decade. Even compared to just a few years back, people seem more often to struggle to carry a thought, and resort much more quickly to emotional belligerence.
Oh, not that I haven't been as knocked about in the interim, of course. I'm not really claiming I'm better, and these are frightening times; I hope I'm neither projecting nor judging too harshly. But even trying to discount for the possibility, there still seems something new left to explain.
> Even compared to just a few years back, people seem more often to struggle to carry a thought, and resort much more quickly to emotional belligerence.
We're living in extremely uncertain times, with multiple global crises taking place at the same time, each of which could develop into a turning point for humankind.
At the same time, predatory algorithms do whatever it takes to make people addicted to media, while mental health care remains inaccessible for many.
I feel like throwing a tantrum almost every single day.
I feel perhaps I've been unkind to many people in my thoughts, but I'm conflicted. I don't understand myself to be particularly fearless, but what times call more for courage than times like these? How do people afraid even to try to practice courage expect to find it, when there isn't time for practice any more?
You have only so many spoons available per crisis. Even picking your battle can become a problem.
I've been out in the streets, protesting and raising awareness of climate change. I no longer do. It's a pointless waste of time. Today, the climate change deniers are in charge.
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