Yeah I wonder why that is.
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Simple worldviews tend to be happier. Ignorance is bliss.
I wouldn't call myself woke and I'm not happy. This is NONSENSE!
Honestly, I am pretty happy as a woke person.
The trick is to watch less news and do more things to actually change anything.
"People incapable of guilt usually do have a good time."
If you aren’t at least a little bit anxious and depressed about the state of the world, you haven’t been paying attention.
I also refuse to believe that all the racist, misogynist, bigoted snowflakes out there are living anxiety free, considering how quickly they blow up at the sight of a pronoun.
Yeah, they seem to be more afraid of shit they made up than anybody else.
Like part of the reason small town conservative types don’t like the ideas of cities is because they’re scared of being mugged.
Life would be easier if I just believed that I am superior and that my president is good, too bad I have a brain 🙃
Rather be unhappy than live in fear.
Which is what the asleep people have.
I live in fear of the “asleep” people being in charge.
Breaking: people with empathy affected by other people's suffering.
I'd argue there's nothing normal about being a well-adjusted person in a terminally ill society.
I would rather be a John Brown in a horrid world than be "sane man" in the same such world and boy am I about to give into my madness and zealotry.
Yes, it has to be quite nice and comforting to be stupid. I can only imagine...
Having empathy in this society run by psychopaths is depressing and anxiety-inducing indeed.
It bleeds into everything in this whole place. You know when you're using something — a government system, a website, a support line, an application — and it feels like nobody thought about how shitty the experience would be for you? That's what it feels like to live in a society that has no empathy. The people that design these systems do not give a shit about how you'll feel being subjected to them, because they have no empathy and have never considered nor cared what your experience would be like.
I am a somewhat empathetic person.
I was raised in a family of people that had no empathy.
My grandmother met all of the criteria to be labeled as a sociopath, psychopath, something, and she raised her kids accordingly.
So when I was a kid, like my little sister would grab my arm and rake her nails down my arm to just grate as much skin off as she could because she was upset over something.
And I would complain, and I would be told that maybe I shouldn't have upset her.
And also being a kid, sometimes I would cry.
And my grandmother came to me and was like, you're bigger than her, why don't you just do something about this?, implying that I should physically beat my younger sister up.
And I said, I do do something about it. I cry.
She thought that was hilarious. She told that story as a joke any time I was brought up for the rest of her life.
To me, when I see someone else crying because of something I did, that causes me emotional pain because I'm normal.
So I was attempting to cause emotional pain, not on purpose, but because I was actually hurt, as punishment for the action that my psychopath sister, who was raised by my psychopath mother, who was raised by my psychopath grandmother, had taken.
But the concept of feeling emotional pain as the consequence of your action choosing to hurt another person is and was so alien to the people in my family that it being explained to them comes across as humor.
Needless to say, I don't associate with my family anymore. I have not talked to any person that I am blood related to in four months, and even that was just a quick text.
People say I'm weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.
It's very much the same for being woke when opening your eyes to be woke today is like eating lunch in a room full of dead bodies.
People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.
I feel for you. At least some members of my family are either psychopaths, have narcissistic personality disorder, or both. I think the comorbidity there is pretty common.
The lifelong damage caused by being raised around sociopaths is real — as is the continuing damage from living in a country run by them.
oh yeah, if you come out of this whole event cycle, whatever the hell it is as normal, then something's wrong with you, lol
So the less you care the less you stress? Makes sense.
No shit. it's really depressing seeing all of those filthy pedophiles and nazis getting sexually aroused by dead kids.
and even more depressing watching 2/3rds of Americans refusing to deal with 80 million terrorists in America.
Depressive realism
My favorite
As they say, (willfull?) ignorance is bliss.
Wouldn't say their ignorant, most people know and choose to believe what they believe regardless
My woke ass actually feels empathy for others, so of course I am depressed watching them get disappeared.
It's probably 300 times harder to be depressed and anxious when you are braindead, so this tracks.
Fucking accurate.
The only time I've seen racists sad is when Trump didn't kill enough immigrants fast enough for their liking.
They put ICE in the airports, they’re sending them to polling places, they bought the voting machines. Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose. A Constitutional crisis and a confrontation between the civilian population and the fascist uniparty regime like nothing we’ve ever seen in modern times is imminent.
Don’t forget, this is a bipartisan effort that has been planned continuously for decades, with constant escalation. It’s kind of funny that Trump fucked up a war the MIC has been planning for that long, I dare say fortuitous for all parties, but we can’t lose track of the fact that the Democrats are running “block tackle” for republicans on the war powers resolution, and that ALL of the war mongering taking place has the ultimate goal of confronting China.
The uniparty is real. The ratchet effect is real. The “deep state” IS real.
See:
https://resistir.info/livros/rebuilding_americas_defenses.pdf
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
https://archive.org/details/gov.gpo.fdsys.CHRG-111shrg52971
And all deliberately incompetent things Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, et al have been saying. Fucking traitors.
I haven't listened to Knowledge Fight for a while because I'm watching my own mental health a bit, but ol AJ has never sounded actually happy for more than an episode or two. Hatred like they have sounds like they sleep well, but they're fucking miserable too. J.K. Rowling could shut up and just enjoy being rich, but she still has to find someone to hate and hurt. You wouldn't really hear about a happy person.
You have to be racist to be happy! Obviously
To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, the fact that a MAGA racist is happier than a woke person is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
I couldn’t take current events anymore and now I’m in therapy haha long overdue really.
I too am happiest when I'm asleep.
Username......relevant? I guess? This post makes me sad...
Username relevant? That's what happens when you don't sleep/stay awake/confront the horrors.
You might come to that conclusion: if you associate wokeness with empathy then it makes sense to think that such people are emotionally influenced by all the shit in the world and therefor must feel worse than those who don't have such a burden. All other things being equal, that would probably be true; but it overlooks the fact that the proudly antiwoke are fucking miserable.
That's why you also need a cat
No. You need a cat because everyone needs TWO cats.
But, only two. Don't get eight. That's too many cats.
Source?
You
Ah yes. Prime them with loaded questions then ask them happiness in a scale.
Ah. NY Post.
Idk I feel pretty fine not giving a fuck what other people do
& those with the MarALago Mind Virus? Do tell!
I'm not sure to which extend this is true but this might be correlation. I guess MAGA people are more often privileged while marginalized people are more often woke and due to their marginalization they are depressed