The usual therapist take is that depression is a blunt hammer for dealing with bad times from the point of view of a small mammal ancestor It's literally a trigger for hibernation (seasonal affective disorder being a major physical link to depression)
-
-
Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Everything looks gray and cold and shitty? Well then don't do anything Stay inside, lower your heartbeat and just stop moving until the sun comes back out again And they say this is an obsolete impulse and in the modern real world it's "irrational"
1 reply 2 retweets 49 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
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
2 replies 8 retweets 71 likes -
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
2 replies 10 retweets 62 likes -
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
1 reply 1 retweet 30 likes -
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)
1 reply 1 retweet 39 likes -
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
5 replies 5 retweets 33 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Radlein
Isn't this falling into the "Clearly it is up to the individual to solve the climate crisis" and ignoring that major corporations and highly wealthy people are the main contributors?
1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
Well, Arthur isn't talking about consumer activism, he's talking about maladaptive human psychological drives And I mean billionaires and their capitalist minions are possessed of those drives as well
1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes -
Replying to @Nymphomachy @Felgraf_Physics and
I mean what other instinct than FOMO could drive somebody to try to literally acquire all the money that exists in the world A pulsing insatiable hunger to prevent being locked out of content at all costs
2 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
Jung talked about the twin drives of eros and thanatos, the life-urge and the death-urge, and people who write comic books try to make it so the life-urge is "good" and the death-urge is "evil" (you give Darkseid the Anti-Life Equation, or rip off Darkseid and call him Thanos)
-
-
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
But I mean we know what the unrestricted life-urge looks like It looks like kudzu, like an algal bloom, like cane toads exploding through Australia It looks like a metastasizing cancer It looks like what the human race is doing to Earth
2 replies 8 retweets 17 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The shocking and horrifying idea of being "programmed to die" is... how our own bodies work When it stops working -- cells no longer undergo apoptosis -- that's what cancer is
4 replies 3 retweets 13 likes - Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.