Today I drank some tea, read some more of Linux Kernel Development, and helped my partner make jambalaya. An oddly "normal" day and I'm trying not to feel guilty about it.
haha welcome to my constant frame of mind. I want to preserve my mental health but I don't want to stick my head in the sand.
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You must always be mindful your own well-being. You cannot be of use to others if you're a mess inside, and no one can help your well-being better than you. Like when the oxygen masks drop in the airplane: "Put your own mask on first."
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feels like I'd be exercise my privilege in being able to ignore certain news I'm not even talking about "international events." I'm talking about stuff happening in America every day.
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We can limit the info we take in because we just don't want to know so we can proliferate some fantasy, or we can limit the info we take in because we recognize that we know enough, have developed compassion, and that knowing more is not to our benefit or the benefit of others.
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But if the need for more information is compulsive, that's where we really get into trouble. Same as the compulsive need for more [fill in any number of things here] is dangerous - it leads to bad results.
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it's more like the need to bear witness and not be just another white chick ignoring things I can ignore
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You’re not the white chick you describe. At all. You know enough about these issues, and you don’t have to punish yourself for your good fortune. If you’re grateful for what you have and share what you’ve got, that’s good enough. A healthy, balanced Alice better for everyone.
End of conversation
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I know - I read your tweets a lot. ;) But I think as westerners, we are *way* out of balance with what constitutes a healthy amount of information. At no point in human history have we been bombarded with information like today. It's much too much for us to handle, and it shows.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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