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I stopped participating in social media outside of old-school forums, and my stress level went way down. I took a look around, saw that fewer people were living
by jackcosgrove 6y ago
I stopped participating in social media outside of old-school forums, and my stress level went way down. I took a look around, saw that fewer people were living in poverty than ever, I have a quality of life my parents never had, and all the predictions of doom over the past decade or so never came about. Life is pretty much the same or slightly better for me since then. Maybe I am lucky, but a lot of the broad stats back up that this is a great time to be alive.
- xyzelement 6y agoYou are the winner. There are multiple lenses to look at everything. Chose the lenses that works for you - optimism is just as realistic as pessimism and nihilism.
- jeetelongname 6y agoWhile I am glad you have found inner peace or some thing ignoring the world won't make it any less shitty for those who have to deal with the consequences. While social media is fueling outrage people have reasons to be angry with the world and to ignore it is to be ignorant of the problems that real people have to deal with.
- largbae 6y agoThe point of this article is to, instead of feeling and spreading outrage for the shitty things you cannot change, go work to change and enjoy the things you can.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoTo add some nuance: Me being angry over systemic harm to vulnerable individuals - harm perpetuated by powerful interests - this anger is reasonable, often productive. Me being part of a 1M strong mob dog-piling the single racist nitwit - I am the powerful interest in this scenario.
- lolinder 6y agoAcknowledging that we have a lot of work to do improving things further doesn't require us to simultaneously accept the idea that the world is a worse place today than it was a generation ago. Indeed, noting that real progress has been made made, as the parent does, seems like the first step toward hopefully pursuing further progress—it's proof it can work!
- b0rsuk 6y agoYou're a very lucky man that the bulk of your stress is caused by social media.
- rcpt 6y ago> all the predictions of doom over the past decade or so never came about Only if you're ignoring climate change
- xyzelement 6y agoI am not sure how the person you are replying to feels but one could easily say that whatever is true of climate change, "doom" has not happened.