I was writing a new post, but realized that it was really just an offshoot of this one, so I decided that despite the potential for less feedback, I’d spare everyone’s the extra thread and put it here.
Before we start, I realize the irony and hypocrisy of venting frustration about other people doing the same. And I want to emphasize that it’s not just this board I’m thinking about. That being said, I’m trying to work through my emotions of the past few months/years and wanting to get a feel if I’m totally off base here.
There seems to be a pervasive assumption that everything is on the table and no one is going to stop it, in a political sense. I can’t help but think that could use the same logic to say that it’s a certainty that he’ll nuke Los Angeles, and we should devote 100% of our personal time and resources to evacuate as many people by any means necessary starting now.
Or hell, I’d encourage everyone here to start using heroin. It’ll help you forget what’s happening around you, and with fascism destroying literally everything around it, it is consequence-free.
(And I’m sure pretty sure that someone will agree with one or both of the above in replies, too.)
But my question is genuine: what are we doing here? Is there any point to doing or planning or being anything?
The worst part of all of this is that instinctually, on some level deep inside, I must feel like the answer to the question above is yes, that there must be a point, because I still don’t want to give up and I get upset that others are. Whether it’s justified or self delusion, I can’t say. But it’s frustrating to see online discussions (again, not necessarily herder) go around and around in a self feeding spiral of despair. And again, it’s especially frustrating because I can’t say it’s unjustified, while at the same time feeling that it’s “wrong,” and I can’t express any real good reason why. Maybe I feel like giving up on myself would be giving up on my loved ones, and I’m not willing to do that to them, so I resent anything that I think might be pushing me to do that.
This probably repetitious of previous threads of mine, like this or this or this very one, but if it makes it any better, I feel like I’m getting closer to the roots of what’s going through my mind about current events.
Am I making any sense here?