How do I emotionally cope with the state of the world today? Waking up and seeing the news just makes me miserably depressed and makes me feel like there's no point even going on when the economy and global order are just disintegrating into shit.
you have 3 options>1. kill yourself>2. continue doom scrolling the news and ruminate in constant thought loops of death and destruction, continuing to do nothing but sit on your idle hands>3. ignore it and just live your own life, nothing you can do about it, no point in worryingwhich will you take?
>>34372998>How do I emotionally cope with the state of the world today?By doing something positive and proactive with your time instead of being a mindless consumer of content and news. Things within your control are your responsibility.
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>>34372998Stop watching the news. Its all shock factor and rage bate, it's how they keep viewers. Look through the videos fox uploads to YouTube, almost every Harris Falkner video has the title "this is UNACCEPTABLE!!!"Every political news source is shit, right and left.
>>34372998Don't watch the news. It's so easy.
>>34373010>>ignore it and just live your own life, nothing you can do about it, no point in worryingHow though? It's impossible to ignore politics when it directly affects your own life. Just going to the store you can't help but notice EVERYTHING is significantly more expensive than it was just 2 or 3 years ago.Not to mention it affects hobbies too, like the video game industry getting fucked because of AI corporations hording all the hardware with express government approval to do so.And the way things are going I honestly think we're going to see war in first-world countries within the next 10 to 20 years. If that happens I will literally just kill myself, I have zero desire to live through a war.
>>34373026This. You would be surprised about how little you actually care.
>>34373046>omg I got a cut on my leg what can i do about this!!>omg the cut is getting worse this is so demoralizing! >omg the cut is beginning to fester and puss this is simply beyond my control!!>I can't enjoy life because of this cut I keep shouting about the festering cut but nothing is getting bettttteeerr!!!!1
>>34373046A lot of people have problems in their own lives that they actually have the power and faculty to change, rather than stressing about Iran or Ukraine or gas prices or grocery prices or somali fraud. I can't change any of those things.
>>34373026It really is this simple. You're not immune to the same mass hypnosis and outrage that works on everyone else. It works even better when you think you are. Does this mean the world doesn't have problems? Of course not. But hale, holy, healthy people don't piss their pants over problems, they act accordingly and are secure when they've done the best they can, just like all of your ancestors have for tens of thousands of years, in much worse and more improbable circumstances.
>>34373046contrary to popular belief, towelheads getting carpet bombed in some middle eastern shithole does not have a direct impact on your actual life. if gas going up 1 dollar has a measurable hit on your finances, you're doing something wrong. do you think I LIKE paying 90 dollars to fill up my car? no. is there anything I can do to change the price of gas? also no. i'll eat it and move on with my day. things are bad before they get better. you survived the last two fuel price hikes and the covid price hikes, and we're all still here. what makes this one any different? it's the same cycle of neocon wars in the middle east that has happened what, 3 times already? nothing ever changes. no point in worrying about it. also something to think about is ZOG will absolutely not allow war in first world countries, not only are they a free money printer for them (endless debt slavery) but the masses have been sufficiently been brainwashed into never having enough gumption for an uprising, whether that be through slothfulness due to a poisoned food and water supply or a complete shutdown/fabrication of all messaging and communication. there are forces way beyond your comprehension whos bottom line is dependent on keeping you alive and fed.now, keep that in mind, and just move on. do something with your life. write a book. draw a picture. just do something that isnt dooming and glooming. how many more years of rumination do you need to subject yourself to before you amount to something? if all of this is too much for your pea brain to handle go head over to the gun store and do the needful. save yourself the time and effort.https://youtu.be/wn-njpBoVEE
>>34373026I don't watch the news. At all. I don't even have Twitter or any social media. But I get exposed to the news through other sources. Mainly friends or family members telling me about it, or seeing it brought up in random discussions on 4chan, Reddit, Discord, etc.There's literally no way to completely insulate myself from the news unless I become a hermit.>>34373092>contrary to popular belief, towelheads getting carpet bombed in some middle eastern shithole does not have a direct impact on your actual life.It does. It literally does. Even putting aside the economic impact, there are other concerns. Political extremists are being emboldened by the war. The far-left and far-right are basically dominating all discourse right now because they feel they have been "vindicated". I believe we're spiralling towards open conflict between the political extremes and shit is going to get really, really, really bad in the next few years.Also, there's still a chance the war blows up into a much larger-scale conflict.
>>34373108You have an anxiety problem my friend. I know because I used to be like you.
>>34373108>I believe we're spiralling towards open conflict between the political extremes and shit is going to get really, really, really bad in the next few years.People like you said this in 2024. And 2021. And 2020. And 2016. And 2008. So on, and so forth. Nothing has happened. People arguing online does not translate to anything in real life. The western globohomo corporatocracy will continue doing its thing, people will continue shit flinging on twitter under the delusion that their efforts amount to something (it doesn't), and a historically politically divided populace will continue to be politically divided.The news has put this delusion in your head of OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER WE'RE AT THE END OF THE WORLD AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ; you've fallen for their SPECIFICALLY ENGINEERED RAGE BAIT hook, line, and sinker. You ever wonder what they do in all those political think tanks? It's making up headlines to get impressionable people like you anxious and riled up. I've been through this same exact news cycle four times in my life. Nothing ever happens, unironically.
>>34373132My anxiety has been way worsened because every time I predict something bad will happen, it comes true.In January 2020 I was reading the first news about coronavirus and was panicking knowing it was going to destroy the world as we knew it. I looked for reassurance online and everybody, literally EVERYBODY, told me "Stop worrying about it, it will be a nothingburger like Ebola was". But in the end, I was right and they were wrong.There's many other examples. If you wrote the whole history of the Earth from like 2014 through to 2026 and presented it to my past self in 2012, it would read like a fanfiction of all my worst fears about the future.I've always had a deep sense inside of me that the world was going to go to shit and Earth would become unlivable. Even back in 2012 when things were peaceful and calm, I instinctively knew things would become worse and I used to dread seeing people speculate about future decades like the 2020s because I KNEW they would be shit.
>>34373148>People like you said this in 2024. And 2021. And 2020. And 2016. And 2008. So on, and so forth. Nothing has happened. People arguing online does not translate to anything in real life.It's different this time. In the past it was liberals vs conservatives, or progressives vs MAGA. Now it's literal unironic Hitler-style nationalists vs literal unironic third-worldist communists. There's no way this doesn't blow up into something really bad. We also have the Jihadist problem and they have also been emboldened by the recent war, and have deep links with the aforementioned communists.
>>34373168no, it is not in fact different this time. people were calling right wingers nazis and left wingers commies all the way back during the obama campaign (this is ALSO a byproduct of the political think tanks mentioned earlier.) you are being poisoned by sensationalist media overload.
>>34373168and don't forget, even if all of those things just magically went away tomorrow, we'd still have climate change.
>>34373182No, because this time its not just hyperbole, its real. There are literal Nazis on Twitter calling for all Jews to be killed and getting hundreds of thousands of likes, and literal commies calling for all white people to be killed and getting hundreds of thousands of likes. Do you think this shit doesn't seep into real-life?
>>34373159>covid destroyed the worldLMAO>>34373168>It's different this timeLMAOyou are literally mind raped by peter thiel media programming. there is nothing we can say or do to stop you from thinking this way. i will pray for you.
>>34373159Okay okay I'm just saying. Just try to forget about politics for one moment.I used to yap to a likeminded friend once and at some point he told me even though he agrees,he never really gets that anxious about it, you know?It's not easy to stop caring about politics, but it's worth recognizing when you're projecting internal pain onto external events.
>>34373148things have been measurably worse since the 90s for everyone except the ultra rich, though. things have been happening the entire time. you've just been too fucking stupid to see it
>>34372998You and nobody else said anything about jews or judaism. So you are utterly ignorant and have no clue of whats going on. Actually one retard in the thread is actually shilling for jews. Is that you? I suggest you just focus more on your hobbies since you're fucking retarded and will just harm yourself and the rest of the world if you become active
>>34373961>t. Mohammed
