I still think this and I try to keep it in mind even while 80% of my feed is people expressing outrage and vitriol at anyone who isn’t wholeheartedly promoting some specific opinion about the best path forward for the world
Everyone is angry about the world and scared about the future and defensive on account of being pretty sure (correctly or not) that someone else is blaming them for something terrible and I don’t know if any of that will help but it’s probably useful to acknowledge what’s happening and breathe a bit
I wonder how much of this is also about feeling powerless? I try to remember what Joe Rotblat said, that you can start small and before you know it, you've changed the world.
Accepting situations over which we have no control is the first step in focusing on those small things we can do, but it's immensely difficult because it feels like surrender and we're mostly trained from childhood not to do it.
That’s the issue, we were taught that we cannot change the situation. People who say that usually think that it is easier to see the world collapse than changing the current way things are happening.
