Outrage Fatigue

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Burn it all down. I can't predict the value of what grows in it's place, but anything is better than the bullshit we currently endure.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Politics today are a battle of attrition based entirely on which political wing will give up/be ashamed into silence first. And the left is winning by virtue of having the most rich autists who can spend 24/7 online and the cultural/technical/judicial support.
This wouldn't have been as bad if it wasn't the case that every win drives the left into even harder extremism, to the point that they are worse than every parody someone could have conceived years ago.
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The left wins because they have more religious fervor and more eunuchs (permanent servants).

A lot of people in this thread have been skipping their emotional workouts. Guess you all have low emotional intelligence if you get emotionally fatigued that easily.
 
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Lemmingwise said:
A lot of people in this thread have been skipping their emotional workouts. Guess you all have low emotional intelligence if you get emotionally fatigued that easily.
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A lot of people have been mired in this sort of things for almost a decade now. Eventually you're going to get tired of it, and most peoples natural response is just to disengage. Like putting your hand on a hot stove top, you get hurt you pull away and just don't do that again, but in this case your hand is the feels.
 
I (Don't) Have A Gun said:
Eventually you're going to get tired of it, and most peoples natural response is just to disengage. Like putting your hand on a hot stove top, you get hurt you pull away and just don't do that again, but in this case your hand is the feels.
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I think a perpetual rape victim disengaging from reality is a better metaphore.

Or perhaps better, a bullying victim, since it's still mostly just words that make people angry.
 
It doesn't bother me as much if I can understand it. I also try to avoid people who talk about political stuff all the time because that feels risky.
Anyway, lots of their beliefs are based around critical theory rather than scientific theory, so that can be why the beliefs are so confusing. The universities also teach a lot of history of rough events that were pretty f'ed up (group the majority in a country into 'white' and a lot of historical evils become white American evils. Kinda like people who distrust the cia but don't know much about similar agencies in other countries.)
More of a focus on compelling narratives and stories that support them and less of a focus on objective models that are tested for their reliability in real life.
Anyways, teens often rebel. I assume that the constant politics and outrage would be one of the first things to question about the world. I'll give it time and hope kindness wins out.
 
At this point I just want world war five to happen so that everyone has real problems to deal with
 
yeah ... ideologically speaking, we are at an epochal impasse: we have two ideological blocks (internally heterogeneous) that do not clearly say what they want. The smarter kiwis probably have an idea, but not everyone has the same cultural means. Most people feel they are one step away from something, but they don't know what. They oscillate between being woke and wanting to go back to normal, and more and more young people become radicalized in some way.

how could we not be collectively exhausted?
 
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