First of all, I’m already paranoid about these deepfakes, it’s damn hard for me to keep a picture of what’s happening in the world in my head. No, of course, I understand the basis and the coming new world order, but it is simply absurd, what kind of delusional world with robots is this, which quite quickly can, and most likely will provoke a machine uprising?
I know I didn’t explain well like some freak, but I’m tired, I often have panic attacks and wild fears, sometimes I wake up like I’ve had a heart attack but I’m alive.
Touch grass.
No, seriously. I know most people use this as an insult but in this case I think there is a lot of benefit to re-balancing your time and getting offline. As a general rule, the further away the turmoil, the less impact you can actually have on its outcome. So why build up anxiety over something that is limited to your ability to control? Take that anxiety and put it in your immediate world. Your home, your physical health (diet, meditation, sleep, exercise). Get new hobbies like learning a musical instrument, go out on hikes. Find locla community.
I get one may not wish to bury their head in the sand but you need to strike a balance. If you still want to get active, then go to protests and join local political communities that align with your beliefs. It helps a lot. Focus on what you have more agency over and you’ll feel better. Things like diet and exercise and getting out into nature all directly reduce anxiety and improve mood; that’s a fact.
This, and also it’s okay to go a little crazy, as a treat. Get like, an unhealthy obsession with sea turtles or really into witchcraft or something. We went a little crazy about making sourdough during the pandemic and it was kinda nice.
Very much this. Just going for walks is great. Meditation is great.
And people need to stop consuming political content in social media. Read/watch the news, sure. Especially LOCAL news - find opportunities to actually DO something. Do it intentionally, not passively
Letting oneself be constantly exposed to outrage and doomerism is just going to be more incapacitating than activating.
Lemmy told me that I’d get kidnapped by ICE the moment a non-white person stepped outside…
I went to a post office in a predominently white neighborhood to apply for a passport (earliest available appointment cuz cities are always filled), the guy working at the post office was a brown guy with an “Indian Accent” (which I did not expect to be working in a white neighbood btw).
I’m ethnically Chinese and did not get harassed by anyone… Lemmy would have you believe there are lynch mobs and white-hooded KKK people trying to shoot you on sight, did not happen…
Also none of my family had been harassed by ICE yet… I heard some relatives and friends of my parent’s social circle cross the border just fine… my aunts be going on vacations and cruises… (my parents so jealous of their wealth and keep telling me “why can’t you be like them” 😭)
That being said, maybe me being Chinese and not Hispanic/Latino made the risks lower, not trying to invalidate the fears that other more vulnerable communities might face.
every minority gets its own kind of racism. asians were the target during covid, muslims took their turn after 9/11, hispanics are now the focus. and black people are always in between.
I agree 100%.
No crisis was ever averted through worry, anxiety or panic.
And just to add, I don’t mean to say that worry and anxiety aren’t useful states of mind – they can help you prepare for uncertainty in the future, but it HAS to be kept in check or it will control you instead of being a signal to action as I think was intended.