Comments | smurasaki: I give up on the real world

smurasaki

I give up on the real world

Jul 14, 2013 00:06

Between the fact that it's apparently legal to follow, confront, and fucking shoot someone for the hideous crime of walking to the convenience store, and all the shit in Texas, and... all the shit for some time now, I just give up. It's painfully obvious that the people with the power make the rules and there's not a damned thing the rest of us ( Read more... )

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baeraad July 14 2013, 07:38:31 UTC

As far as I can tell, my options are: pay attention as the US becomes something out of a hideous dystopia and become completely non-functional or look away and at least manage some measure of happiness until the hideous dystopia kills me. (Whether directly, or simply by leaving me to die in the streets.)

I am sad to say that that is more or less the conclusion I am arriving at also. I mean, what's the point? People hear "altruism" and they think "worthless subhumans trying to steal my stuff." You get sick of trying to argue that you deserve to live, after a while. If people don't accept it as axiomatic that everyone deserves to live, there is really no argument you can make to convince them.

smurasaki July 14 2013, 19:22:21 UTC

Somehow, the default for a lot of people has become very messed up. It's scary and depressing to live somewhere where politicians can say that people don't deserve food, and people agree with them, where the poor are seen as just not trying hard enough, where its legal to attack and kill people, where the only life that's seen as valuable is unborn life, it's... it's just crazy making.

kadymae July 15 2013, 04:02:01 UTC

i've been feeling a lot of the same despair and rage m'self.

smurasaki July 15 2013, 16:47:51 UTC

I just don't even know what to do that would be remotely useful. There are lots of people crying that we need to do something, but what? As far as I can see Texas just proved that the people have no power, so good luck with the idea of getting the evil laws repealed. It just seems hopeless.

(Though, again, I struggle with depression and anxiety at the best of times. It may seem less hopeless from the point of view of people who aren't mentally ill.)