But is it? Is that actually true? Seems to me that "pandemic depression" is EXTREMELY RATIONAL Someone who falls into a "quarantine funk" is fucking saving lives -- their own and others -- by lying in bed and not moving and refusing to believe it's safe out there
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
There's a fuckton of evidence that our society is fucked because we DO TOO MANY THINGS, and by so doing burn up resources on wasted bullshit The fact is that the biggest and most major way to fight climate change, for instance, is to DO LESS SHIT
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Isn't it weird that we think if you're upset about something the right response is to DO SOMETHING, GET OUT IN THE STREETS "I'm so mad about climate change I'm gonna go out there and -- " Aaaah hold up -- go out how
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
"I'm gonna get on a plane to -- No, I'm gonna get in my car and -- No, I'm gonna -- huh" (I'm gonna be honest, "Why are you flying to twenty cities around the world on a private jet to yell about global warming?" is a good point)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
You wanna save the world from global warming? STOP GOING PLACES STOP DOING THINGS Be someone who never leaves their home, has never traveled outside their hometown, never tries exotic foods and spices and eats an extremely bland diet, never buys interesting new products
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
We are literally burning down the whole world with our insatiable interests and desires and appetites and curiosities Stop giving a shit Don't do things, don't care about things Just fucking sit there and exist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Climate change is just one particular angle to look at this from, of course This is also the #1 most effective way to not waste your money, not get mugged or assaulted or raped, not be emotionally harmed by others and not cause them emotional harm
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
This is the actual message of Buddhism, of "enlightenment" People say that it's an oversimplification of what it means to give up attachment and desire and seek satori but, well, they would say that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Yeah, I once summed up Buddhism’s answer to the question of “why do bad things happen?” as “because you keep doing shit. Stop that.”
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Replying to @bazzalisk @Radlein
The only way to win, as they say, is not to play It's true of any negative-sum game -- any game where the house takes a vig -- and in a world subject to entropy and chaos, life itself is such a game
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So instead of life, choose something else -- a zero-sum rather than negative-sum game, a game with a fixed and predictable payout Like Ewan McGregor said, choose heroin
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(I don't literally choose heroin, but that's mainly because I don't know anyone who will sell it to me)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Instead of life I chose maths. Then I want good enough at that so I chose video games.
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