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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.