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Why is everything shit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not a troll post. Why is everything shit?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If everything I see in the news all the time makes me feel like the world is shit, well that's just unhealthy.

So I've subscribed to some good news channels on YouTube, and I try to limit the amount of bad news that I digest.

Staying informed of what's going on in the world is great, but not if it comes at the price of your sanity.

So read some good news, write a list of things you're grateful for, take a walk in a park, meditate in the sun a bit, and remember that overall people are kind (free open source software exists, volunteering exists, food banks exist, etc).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It's not even about the news just looking around me, seeing how things are

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The United States Supreme Court decided everything should go to shit on December 12, 2000.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That was just the warmup. They got serious about it on January 21, 2010.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Because of “conservatives”.

https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Because you're inside a septic tank

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The decisions being made regarding how to deploy and operate the Internet appear, to me, to betray a fundamental lack of understanding regarding just how incredibly complex the information environment within a healthy society actually is, and how much people depend upon it to maintain the basic functions of human life.

It feels to me as though early man discovered fire and immediately decided to burn down every single forest they encountered so dangerous beasts wouldn't have anywhere to hide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It's because everything is literally made of shit, or fecal matter if you prefer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Maybe you’re depressed, maybe you’re looking in the wrong places for happiness, maybe you’re right, maybe something else…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Because greed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

everything's isn't; youre probably standing in a cespool and haven't taken a step in any direction to get out of it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The attention economy largely works by finding problems, outrage, rage bait that can grab and hold your attention.

If you spend lots of time online your view of the world gets skewed by the attention machine.

Life is pretty good, people are nice, food is great. The community around you keeps on keeping on.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

Life is pretty good, people are nice, food is great. This is not true for many, many people.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

because you're old

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

Same reason why Hip Hop sucked in 96: https://youtu.be/yKf40CLF9MU

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I am of the personal opinion that life is a meat grinder, and we're the meat. A small percentage of people are born or become lucky enough to turn the crank or load the grinder, but most of us will suffer, and that's just the way it is because it has always been this way, for all of human history, and will presumably continue to be so. There is no why. There just is.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's not. You live in what is probably by most metrics the best time in human history.

If you read unceasingly-negative material, you could develop a negative worldview.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You live in what is probably by most metrics the best time in human history.

If you live in one of the rich countries. Otherwise it's shit and you're lucky to get a job picking the fruit that feeds those rich countries which pay almost nothing (still better then opportunities back home). Basically they're picking up the scraps left behind by us, who live in those rich countries and think things like "this is the best time to be alive in human history", completely ignoring all the human suffering that supports our lifestyles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

If you live in one of the rich countries.

Nah, I mean globally. Take your hypothetical fruit-growing country. Are things in 2025 in that country bad compared to 1925? 1825? 1725? 1625? If not now, when is the better time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

For humans, that's true with caveats. For the natural world of which they are a part and on whose continued health they depend for their future wellbeing - it is not true in any way, shape or form.

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