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While 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. Whil
by jeetelongname 6y ago
While 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!