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I'm feeling helpless about how shit the world is getting. Not only war and climate change and nazis/fascism rising again. But things like food and housing are becoming so unaffordable, and there is very little that can be done about it by the people it most affects.
There is small scale stuff like pitching in to community food gardens, rewilding, cleaning off swastikas, or volunteering with Food Not Bombs but it seems naive and useless in the face of the sheer scale of cunts continuing to fuck everything up. At a certain point you just cannot pick up the slack.
Also my mental health is tanking and I'm literally not able to do much physically. I guess I just stick my head in the sand to try and care for myself the the best I can?
Do you watch a lot of reels / consume short media? Like the other commenter said, we aren't made to process so much information so quickly. Definitely try some apps that help with black out or ween off insta / twitter completely for a bit
Not really actually. It's more how it's intruding in concrete ways and preying on my mind.
ie Being affected by the cost of living, especially food. Substandard and unaffordable housing. Antisocial behaviour in my neighbourhood rising. Fretting about actions that aren't eco friendly - then remembering it's pointless because renewables are being used as a political football and our plastics aren't even being recycled. Knowing that as temperatures slowly rise my cheaply built flat will become intolerable.
But seeing stuff reflected in the news (ie. around housing climate and food, like it really is that bad) doesn't help. The Gaza news is also harrowing.