Rock climbing (indoor) is the only thing, but honestly it’s been dark recently and I’m not sure I can last another 25 years until I could retire.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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My mantra: "Behold, the field in which I grow my fucks, and see that it is barren."
"That's my secret, Cap, ..."
Love and curiousity. For the latter, my ability to find things interesting has allowed me to look past the immediate and into the past and the far future, the details of the world that add up from countless actions of people or movements of particles, creating such wonderful complexity.
But it would all be for nought had I not someone to share it all with, my friends, my lovely girlfriend, a mind alone and silent is a mind wasted. And I could never waste such a precious gift, I'm grateful to share my intelligence and stupidity alike, for they are my diversity and a symbol of complexity as a human being.
It also helps me understand why things are happening, especially in relation to economics, history and politics. When tragedies occur, I'm able to be more immediately dispassionate as I see the causes and the trends and parallels to history. Yet it has not made me lose my humanity, if anything, I have turned kneejerk emotions into an olympic fire of sorts, never out, always there, always aware. In the words of a forgotten British punk band "I cultivate the hate to anhiliate the state"
Nihilism and the fact that it's highly unlikely that humans will destroy the ability for earth to sustain life, just make our society collapse.
Humans lives aren't as important as life itself.
I would go a step further to say life isn't that important as a whole in the grand scheme of the universe
We as humans place value on it because we're part of it, we rely on it to carry on existing, and we're curious and find it interesting
Could argue that intelligence/sentience is important but it's only important from the perspective of beings with intelligence
I suppose I'm not 100% on Nihilism in that sense.
I still value life of course, but the climate change existential dread which I feel pretty constantly is alleviated when I tell myself its only complete societal collapse/mass extinction event, rather than total destruction of life on the earth.
I wouldn't say I'm a nihilist, I still care about sentient life and am also a vegetarian so can't really say I don't care about animals
Just in the grand scheme of things if the earth blew up tomorrow it's no biggie for the universe
Generally put those kind of issues out of my mind by just reminding myself it's out of my control anyway
Oh yeah, the circles of influence are definitely helpful for your mental health.
And true, I suppose even the earth blowing up doesn't matter in the scheme of the universe.
Constant distraction, shutting out problems until I'm able to deal with them
Not a good method but it kinda works
Filtered most of the political content out of my Lemmy and other feeds, went back to using RSS to deliver content (a surprising amount of sites of all kinds absolutely do support RSS, it's not dead in the slightest), focused more on family and things on hand.
Generally, regaining sense of agency over whatever's around you is a single best antidote.
Nihilism
Resubscribed to XIV online. it's a good escape from this shitty reality.
Also reaching out to old connections that sizzled away
Lately for me it's been the Octopath Traveler II soundtrack. Whenever I feel stressed out I just listen to the character themes and it totally transports me to another place.
Cyber attacks and hybrid attacks have already occurred, and the risk of a full blown invasion increases. Should I be worried? Maybe I should ask Ukrainians how they’re handling these troubling times.
So, what’s on your mind these days? Talking about it might help.
Marxist theorists have known for many decades that the rise of fascism was coming. They called every step of this so accurately, you’d think they had a copy of Biff’s sports almanac.
But the same theorists also predicted the eventual fall of capitalists/fascists, and that socialism/communism would follow. I just hope we get to that point before climate collapse. But I’m doing what I can as an individual, and trusting the process.
There are sane people out there?
Definitely not in America.