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> Maturity is understanding that no matter who is to blame for the situation you are in or the problems you have, you as an individual are most of the time the
by fl4regun 4mo ago
> Maturity is understanding that no matter who is to blame for the situation you are in or the problems you have, you as an individual are most of the time the only one who can fix your problems. Nothing is more effective than a determined person. And nobody knows you better than yourself.
This is not an individual problem, this is a social problem.
>Unless you think you can change the entire universe to do your bidding - then the best thing you can do is helping yourself and helping others. Nobody is helped by complaining. And I'm not missing your point, I just don't share your perspective.
There are things that are going wrong that are beyond the scope of individuals - we fix these things by regulations and laws
>because they want somebody else to be blamed and "responsible" for their life and their mistakes.
This is an irrelevant strawman, I don't care about blaming, I want to fix the issues that we have in society.
>That's why I'm saying to seek out what is good instead of what is evil. And help those who want to be helped.
This is not a solution, you may as well go to clinically depressed people and go "well why don't you just be happy?" - it doesn't work. Just like how saying "well don't use social media!" doesn't work.
- stevenhuang 4mo ago> this is a social problem. A society is made up of individuals. OP is right. One does what they can first. > Just like how saying "well don't use social media!" doesn't work Sometimes the answer really is that simple.
- fl4regun 4mo agoSure, if we just ignore network effects and feedback loops and applications being designed to psychologically make themselves addictive as possible. Social media addiction will definitely just fix itself if we just tell people to, except this hasn't worked has it?
- stevenhuang 4mo agoA society changes when enough individuals change. Network effects themselves change when enough individuals change. This effect is exactly reciprocal--feedback loops as you say--so I'm not sure what is so difficult to understand. Be the first cause.