The world is going to shit. Is there anything I can do about it? No, so I move on.
The world is going to shit. Is there anything I can do about it? No, so I move on.
The world has always been going the shit and will continue to go to shit until the end of time. It takes mountains to influence the tides of nations. You should take the responsibilities you can bear, but no more.
Enjoy your life and vote for the future you want. Can't ask for much more from the average citizen.
I live by the boyscouts rule. Leave this place a little cleaner than when you came here.
Seriously. Some of the things that philosophy does is get you to focus on things that are local so you can see the change, and things you can do something about. Now the world is a better place because you looked at the places you were and did something that is possible for you to do. We should all do this
Excellent rule to live by! Lots of people doing little things makes big changes. It's always worth doing the little things!
The average citizen can do their best to be the best person they can be, to have clean healthy relationships with those around them.
I will say that even with all we see the world. It is not going to shit it's very much improving better than the world my parents lived in. On a long enough timeline we win, When it comes to social political change. So the world is great in all but one aspect and that's the climate and with that I can't do shit about it.
So I may not be able to save the world but I can be one of the helpers that make someone life just a little bit better.
it could be helping out at a shelter. paying for someones meal at a restaurant. telling someone you like the thing they created. all of it helps while we brace for the hardships of crisis created by men long dead and their undead, unfeeling Corps still impacting our world.
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I agree, in part.
The reason why we‘re winning is because people literally changed the course of history.
It is a spectrum imo, not black and white and the closer you are to the issue, the easier it is to solve.
Thats why many books propose the „circles of influence“ that split your world into things you control, things you influence and the weather (which you neither control nor really influence).
The first you should take the most serious, the second you should participate in, not loose sleep over (voting, lobbying, speaking up about problems), the last you should leave be since you cant change it.
The hard part is deciding which is which. Participating in political discourse definitely is important imo.
When you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do, do what you can.
This is my philosophy too. I'm not going to waste my life worrying about what happens to humanity. I will enjoy it while I can.
Every generation says the world is going to shit. Sure aspects suck but generally we live in the best times humanity has ever seen.
Sees climate change waving in the distance
In the distance? Glaciers are now only the shadow of what they were. 80% of insects are gone. Bees are lost. Etc.
We can’t necessarily judge the stability of the underlying system by the material conditions it produces at any given moment.
Capitalist propaganda
Yes and no. I mean most of us enjoy a climate controlled living situation. Four walls and a roof that doesn't leak on us. Indoor plumbing. Multiple ways to travel long distances in short lengths of time. We have these things better than royalty of 125 years ago did.
On the other hand there's probably never been this much collective anxiety among humanity at any point in history. We have a very small group of very wealthy individuals working very hard to ensure only them and their chosen enjoy the fruits of mass labor when we're at a point where everyone's quality of lives could be improving at a much faster rate if everyone was on the same page.
This is not what this subreddit is for
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OP is not the only one who is lost...