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It’s not scary to be honest. It’s been staring us in the face for 60 years. Maybe 100. Accept your fate like the rest of us, and make sure you stock up on dis

It’s not scary to be honest. It’s been staring us in the face for 60 years. Maybe 100. Accept your fate like the rest of us, and make sure you stock up on dissociatives and pain meds for when the time is nigh. Nobody cares!

King-Aaron 4y ago
If covid has taught us anything, it's that even if a global problem becomes direct and starts killing millions of people, a large percentage of the population won't care and will actively continue to deny it.
- top_post 4y ago
  This, unfortunately, is right on the money.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  And in the end things were still fine for them.
  - King-Aaron 4y ago
    Not for the people who ended up with long term chronic illness, or you know, dead
    - Gigachad 4y ago
      Their risk compared to someone who cared wasn’t much different in the end assuming they got vaccinated. Which was my main point. Stressing out over things doesn’t really change your outcomes.
progman32 4y ago
Please don't speak for me. I care. A lot. If some folks prefer to just lie down, fine. But I question the utility of glorifying failure.
- raydiatian 4y ago
  I don’t know about utility, but sooner or later you learn to recognize the futility in raging against the machine. Unless I’m speaking to the executive control behind a multi billion dollar organization, your caring is pretty much meaningless beyond the cubic foot of brain matter that sweats it.
  - squidsoup 4y ago
    You can still participate in activism and vote (provided you live in a democracy naturally), you aren't completely impotent and your efforts aren't futile.
  - progman32 4y ago
    > your caring is pretty much meaningless What data is this prediction based on? > sooner or later you learn to recognize the futility in raging against the machine. I don't quite follow the reasoning here. Is your concern about the mental health of those doing the raging? It is good to stop raging, not a very useful emotion for sustained, demanding tasks... As a personal anecdote, I'm now finding it much easier to act from a position of purposefulness. I feel much better overall after deciding I'd wallowed in fatalism for too long. What's up danger. Hey, don't be a stranger.

King-Aaron 4y ago

If covid has taught us anything, it's that even if a global problem becomes direct and starts killing millions of people, a large percentage of the population won't care and will actively continue to deny it.

top_post 4y ago
This, unfortunately, is right on the money.
Gigachad 4y ago
And in the end things were still fine for them.
- King-Aaron 4y ago
  Not for the people who ended up with long term chronic illness, or you know, dead
  - Gigachad 4y ago
    Their risk compared to someone who cared wasn’t much different in the end assuming they got vaccinated. Which was my main point. Stressing out over things doesn’t really change your outcomes.

progman32 4y ago

Please don't speak for me. I care. A lot. If some folks prefer to just lie down, fine. But I question the utility of glorifying failure.

raydiatian 4y ago
I don’t know about utility, but sooner or later you learn to recognize the futility in raging against the machine. Unless I’m speaking to the executive control behind a multi billion dollar organization, your caring is pretty much meaningless beyond the cubic foot of brain matter that sweats it.
- squidsoup 4y ago
  You can still participate in activism and vote (provided you live in a democracy naturally), you aren't completely impotent and your efforts aren't futile.
- progman32 4y ago
  > your caring is pretty much meaningless What data is this prediction based on? > sooner or later you learn to recognize the futility in raging against the machine. I don't quite follow the reasoning here. Is your concern about the mental health of those doing the raging? It is good to stop raging, not a very useful emotion for sustained, demanding tasks... As a personal anecdote, I'm now finding it much easier to act from a position of purposefulness. I feel much better overall after deciding I'd wallowed in fatalism for too long. What's up danger. Hey, don't be a stranger.