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The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by XorNot »

qsera wrote: post #94
cocacola1 wrote: post #84

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> *I have come to the conclusion* that there is no way a layman understand the truth about current events. So it is best to not at all be aware of any current events as reported by the media or popular opinion.

That is a conclusion that is arrived over course over long time and many experiences/thought. It is not a news or blog article I read once and made me conclude it.

Have you considered that maybe most of the posters on this website weren't born yesterday and have also spent a lifetime absorbing facts from many sources and experiences?

In fact most people have, in some way.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

throwaway198846 wrote: post #152
clort wrote: post #146

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The drones and missiles helped them to not lose the war, but they were significantly damaged by the initial strikes. A nuclear capability might have been sufficient deterrent to prevent those.

There is no amount of nuclear capability that can stop a party you are major threat to from attacking you. See Hamas attacking Israel. Of course Iran will still enrich uranium because they are an excellent negotition leverage.

I think if Washington and Mar-a-Lago got nuked it might stop attacks?

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

danaris wrote: post #126
paganel wrote: post #115

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> ? Or the rates of inflation, crime and unemployme A proletarian revolution would be a good start, not sure what this ideologue writer was on about. History is far from having ended, change can still happen through the union of individual wills.

But how do you start a proletarian revolution? It's all well and good to say "this collective action would change the bad status quo", but even if you're 100% correct, unless you can point to ways to work toward said collective action, it's still pretty useless. You're not actually helping to change the bad status quo.

History shows that a revolution can only be started by a group of potential elites who hope to displace the current elites.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

mlrtime wrote: post #174
rvba wrote: post #144

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> Middle East, inflation, crime and unemployment, preserving the natural environment, NATO, OPEC, the CIA, Iran Not voting for republican part or candidates would fix a lot of those things, although I will probably be heavily downvoted for this since cryptobros like their low taxes at all costs.

I won't downvote you , but voting D will not solve any of these problems.

It would be a start. D isn't much better than R, but it is slightly better.

Although R really knows how to do politics - you see how they're all suddenly anti-Israel a few months before the midterms when most of the country is probably going to vote against Israel?

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by xorcist »

qsera wrote: post #31
metabagel wrote: post #12

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This is close to correct. We should be aware of current events but not become too emotionally involved with them. They are mostly outside of our control, and we need to reserve most of our focus and emotional energy on what is front of us and our loved ones. However, we should still act on behalf of greater causes with the means at our disposal. Some examples... world in crisis - I donate to World Central Kitchen the…

>We should be aware of current events I have come to the conclusion that there is no way a layman understand the truth about current events. So it is best to not at all be aware of any current events as reported by the media or popular opinion. For example you say "fascism in America", and I wonder is this guy for real? Fascism? If this was true how are all the people who insult Trump on social media still alive or n…

Fascism is a way overused term. Personally I tend to avoid it unless we're seeing paramilitary forces shooting civilians in the face. Other people may have lower thresholds.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #18
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #13

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This is a weird quote. It reeks of pretentious pseudo-intellectualism. People vote for a government that does something very tangible about all of those things. The media influenced how Americans voted in the US election, and they voted for a guy that predictably started a major new war in the Middle East. That is a real thing that happened and has impacted billions of people globally with second-order economic effec…

People vote for such a government very rarely - in the US, about once every two years. I don't think anyone would object to you spending a week or even a month before the election learning a large amount about what's wrong in the world. But when you go into the voting booth on November 3 this year, do you expect your choices will be at all influenced by the details of the bad news you read on June 21?

Candidates don't find it difficult to express the most popular opinions in the short time before an election. You really do have to know what they did previously if you want to correctly evaluate them.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

joshrw wrote: post #72
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #13

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This is a weird quote. It reeks of pretentious pseudo-intellectualism. People vote for a government that does something very tangible about all of those things. The media influenced how Americans voted in the US election, and they voted for a guy that predictably started a major new war in the Middle East. That is a real thing that happened and has impacted billions of people globally with second-order economic effec…

It wasn’t predictable that he would start a war. He presented himself as the anti-war candidate and then betrayed his electorate.

How many wars and military actions did he start in his first term? How many times did he do the opposite of what he said he did? The specific case is unpredictable, the general pattern isn't.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

constantius wrote: post #170
joshrw wrote: post #72

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It wasn’t predictable that he would start a war. He presented himself as the anti-war candidate and then betrayed his electorate.

I agree with this. What was certain and predictable was that Harris was a war candidate (the Democrats presided over the first year of genocide and were intending to continue). MAGA was going to be bad in some way, but the Democrats were very bad in very known ways, so voting for whoever was at least saying they were against war was the rational decision for anyone who cared about not having genociders at the helm of…

Both Harris and Trump were identical in that respect, so it shouldn't have swayed your decision.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by rubslopes »

timcobb wrote: post #176
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #4

I only read local news. It’s pretty nice I don’t feel stressed at all. Turns out random shit far away has no significant effect on my life. And even if it did it’s not like I can do anything about it

I live in Baltimore county and most of our local news is homicides and stuff like that. I know some people who moved to Delaware beaches and they told me that there the local news is just folks talking about government administration stuff, which was pretty mind-blowing to me. I would like to check this out.

Same here, but I live in a developing country. I usually switch to international news (or tech news, or no news at all) because local news is mostly about murders and other terrible things. I have family in Portugal, and when I visited, I remember the local news being mostly about pastries and folklore events. I watched TV every day while I was there.
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