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I'm basically worried about everything; I'm told this is known as generalized anxiety disorder, but often I think it's called paying attention. I'm a lot more w
by silverquiet 3y ago
I'm basically worried about everything; I'm told this is known as generalized anxiety disorder, but often I think it's called paying attention. I'm a lot more worried about ecosystem collapse. At the end of the day, dollars are more of a (very important) collective belief of US society while the environment is an empirical reality that we rely upon to eat and breathe.
- randysalami 3y agoI’m definitely in agreement that GAD results from awareness but in the case of doomerism (maybe a bit reductionist), I’d like to also argue it stems from a lack of awareness. Why be afraid of a future you cannot control just because you and everyone you know dies in it? This has been the hand dealt to many groups of people in human history, and they all lived it. This time might be the worst but for us as individuals it’s all the same. Unless we want to genuinely enact change then just breathe. Enjoy your life and don’t be afraid of the things you’re aware of. Take strength in the billions of humans that have gone through the same thing, having their lives cut so short. It’ll happen, and then it’ll be over (: