Hate. I Hate This.

[llythefaerye]

Can't shake the increasing sense of foreboding.

World events. Local events. They're piling up. The Hate. The vitriol. The screaming - on t.v., on the streets, in my head. No matter what you do, say, or think, people are going to - not disagree with you - they're going to Hate you for it. Visceral, spitting, blinded Hatred. Because of

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[pen_grunt]

It does feel very much like that. I've had to check out of it because I think that the feeling of claustrophobia around it (for me) is at least partially due to media saturation; I hear it on the radio when I come in, it's on everyone's news feed on Facebook, it's on the front page of the search engine, etc., etc.

It seems like civil and nuanced conversation is in short supply right now. That doesn't get views/listens/votes. Sensationalism wins the day--and it just fuels the fire.

[llythefaerye]

Claustrophobia is a perfect way to put it.

I do generally try to stay as removed from it as possible (which makes me "apathetic"), but I commute through downtown Minneapolis every weekday, and I live spittin' distance from Northside . . . so it's pretty close-to-home. Most of these (local) events basically *are* "in my backyard", so-to-speak . . . and I just can't even start on the larger World events . . . It all is feeling like the tail-end of a prologue to a novel that I don't particularly want to be in . . .

[mcsassypants]

I get this. I was feeling the same thing a few days ago. My solution (by no means perfect) was to start staying off of social media as much, focus a bit more on self care and start acting in ways that help make the situation better by donating winter items to local organizations helping incoming refugees, donating money to the Black Lives Matter occupation and writing to my senators and house representatives in support of increasing the number of refugees the US will take in and requesting more aid to veterans and other people in need. It's not a lot but it's something and the simple action vs online discussion is helping me restore my sanity.

[llythefaerye]

These are all good things . . . productive things.

"The opposite of War isn't Peace - it's Creation." - RENT

I've been largely avoiding d'facebooks, too, except that it is the only messenger I have in common with a couple people I've needed to have (unrelated) conversations with lately . . . so I'm generally in chat, and the hate is scrolling by on my news feed. To the point where I will find a photo or something and click over to that post just to avoid seen the barrage of nastiness.

[eyeofthundera]

The preacher man says it's the end of times, and the Mississippi River, she's a goin' dry...