No shit. it’s really depressing seeing all of those filthy pedophiles and nazis getting sexually aroused by dead kids.
and even more depressing watching 2/3rds of Americans refusing to deal with 80 million terrorists in America.
I’d argue there’s nothing normal about being a well-adjusted person in a terminally ill society.
As they say, (willfull?) ignorance is bliss.
Having empathy in this society run by psychopaths is depressing and anxiety-inducing indeed.
It bleeds into everything in this whole place. You know when you’re using something — a government system, a website, a support line, an application — and it feels like nobody thought about how shitty the experience would be for you? That’s what it feels like to live in a society that has no empathy. The people that design these systems do not give a shit about how you’ll feel being subjected to them, because they have no empathy and have never considered nor cared what your experience would be like.
I am a somewhat empathetic person.
I was raised in a family of people that had no empathy.
My grandmother met all of the criteria to be labeled as a sociopath, psychopath, something, and she raised her kids accordingly.
So when I was a kid, like my little sister would grab my arm and rake her nails down my arm to just grate as much skin off as she could because she was upset over something.
And I would complain, and I would be told that maybe I shouldn’t have upset her.
And also being a kid, sometimes I would cry.
And my grandmother came to me and was like, you’re bigger than her, why don’t you just do something about this?, implying that I should physically beat my younger sister up.
And I said, I do do something about it. I cry.
She thought that was hilarious. She told that story as a joke any time I was brought up for the rest of her life.
To me, when I see someone else crying because of something I did, that causes me emotional pain because I’m normal.
So I was attempting to cause emotional pain, not on purpose, but because I was actually hurt, as punishment for the action that my psychopath sister, who was raised by my psychopath mother, who was raised by my psychopath grandmother, had taken.
But the concept of feeling emotional pain as the consequence of your action choosing to hurt another person is and was so alien to the people in my family that it being explained to them comes across as humor.
Needless to say, I don’t associate with my family anymore. I have not talked to any person that I am blood related to in four months, and even that was just a quick text.
People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.
It’s very much the same for being woke when opening your eyes to be woke today is like eating lunch in a room full of dead bodies.
People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.
I feel for you. At least some members of my family are either psychopaths, have narcissistic personality disorder, or both. I think the comorbidity there is pretty common.
The lifelong damage caused by being raised around sociopaths is real — as is the continuing damage from living in a country run by them.
oh yeah, if you come out of this whole event cycle, whatever the hell it is as normal, then something’s wrong with you, lol
“People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time.”
This just in, ignorance is still bliss
Simple worldviews tend to be happier. Ignorance is bliss.
Most of the MAGA sphere spends all day watching all the things the news people tell them to be afraid of. I don’t buy this for a second.
You gonna tell me a shit post may not be factually accurate?
Sir, my pearls have been clutched!
Good
Shit but verify, that’s been my motto.
Yeah I think I recently have read here on Lemmy that the amygdala is bigger for MAGA, so I think the opposite is true indeed.
Which would also make more sense, because of all the irrational anxieties those scum has…
I believe its called “amygdala maxxing”
Honestly, I am pretty happy as a woke person.
The trick is to watch less news and do more things to actually change anything.
Yep, (social) media is optimized in fueling your emotions, and well the strongest emotions are negative, so it’s mostly optimized towards that.
Avoiding this, doing something more healthy leads to a better mental (and likely physical as it’s connected) health IMO/IME.
To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, the fact that a MAGA racist is happier than a woke person is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
jokes on you guys I’ve already moved on to woke 2 and my mental health is great
Protip: dot ml might not like “woke 2.0” for too long.
Good. Fuck’em.
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I always thought it was funny how tough that steak seems based on his chewing.
I couldn’t take current events anymore and now I’m in therapy haha long overdue really.
So the less you care the less you stress? Makes sense.
