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Or the world has always had issues and the lense through which we now view the world is an everpresent fear coaster. Step away from the news & social media for
by ttt3ts 4y ago
Or the world has always had issues and the lense through which we now view the world is an everpresent fear coaster.
Step away from the news & social media for a few months. You can't effect the outcome anyway and you might find you're happier.
- irq 4y agoIgnorance is indeed bliss, right up until they’re at your door. I like to have advance warning.
- ttt3ts 4y agoSo you can? (serious question not sarcastic)
- yayr 4y agoto contribute to the architecture of solutions is hard indeed... However, to contribute small everyone in most countries can, simply by choosing what and how to consume and by voting, wherever that is possible
- tiedieconderoga 4y agoWell, if you had completely ignored the news circa Feb 2020, you would have had an unpleasant shock when you ran out of toilet paper and tried to buy more. Forewarned is forearmed.
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoFunny, because I mostly heard about the state of store shelves by my friends and neighbors who visited those stores, rather than national news outlets trumpeting a bunch of irrelevant crap.
- tick_tock_tick 4y agoIsn't it the opposite? For all those topics with even a bit of research they are not even close to as concerning as the media presents it as. If people were more informed they'd have less issue it's this weird in-between state where they know about the issue but don't know enough to understand it's not really that big of a deal.
- thaw13579 4y agoAgreed the world has always had problems, but it feels more like a megaphone than a lens these days (found not only online, but also at work, school, and among friends). These problems also eventually reach people's doorsteps where they cannot be ignored by disconnecting from social media or socially isolating.
- mxkopy 4y agoThis is really easy to say for someone who doesn't experience these issues firsthand. Not reading the news isn't going to make your existential anxiety go away if you or your parents give it to you, either by helicoptering or living paycheck to paycheck. Also, you really don't think that, in between building aqueducts and nuclear missiles, nothing has changed? You really think we have the same problems today as we did N years ago?
- thinkingemote 4y agoRelative, not an absence. History and geography. We can look back at history and say that there are times that are worse than now. For example, the second world war was worse than now. Cuban missile crisis also. We can look at other countries and see that being in Syria or Ukraine right now is worse than in my more peaceful country. By looking this way we literally gain new perspectives. Perhaps part of today's crisis is one of perspective maybe the internet narrows our vision.
- mxkopy 4y agoI don't know which reductionist framework you're working with to make these comparisons, but they're wrong, because they're reductionist. Some people like war, maybe things were awesome for them? Not to mention that humans are very social creatures. You can't just say 'medicine is better', 'crime is down' and neglect the erosion/transmogrification of every single social institution that has been around for XYZ decades just because there isn't a number or well-defined historical analysis associated with it. I'll put it this way. We know exactly what happens when wars are started. We know very little about the effects of having an attention economy. For every thing you can give me that we know has changed for the better, I can give you another thing that's changed probably for the worse but we really have no clue. If people are living longer, more miserable lives, is that really an improvement?