Sorry, but this country fully deserves where it ends up.
I shut off all news and social media, stopped checking newspapers, TV, and podcasts, and unsubbed from all politics and news mailing lists and communities. Told family and friends and they’re being cool about it.
Dove into 60’s detective novels. Anything by Ross Thomas, Donald Westlake, and Lawrence Block. Have stocked up on at least a year’s worth of out-of-print epubs. Will reevaluate once they run out. Mixed with a lot of outdoor walks.
It’s been glorious.
Stopped reading and watching the news. No point.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464/amp/
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/e-jean-carroll-les-moonves-assault-1203250251/amp/
- Started listening to more episodes of ‘The Rest is History’ podcast to remind me that we’ve been under worse times before, and that everything ends eventually
- Sci-Fi books as a form of escape
- Starting gaming as another form of escapism
- I also plan on exercising more as I’ve neglected my body over the last year
Family and friends!
Psychedelics, weed, alcohol (willing to quit alcohol but it’s always a bad week to quit drinking)
Absurdist but intelligent humor. Here in Argentina, watching or listening to old shows by Les Luthiers gives me life.
Bold of you to assume I’m sane
As bad as times are, these times are still better than 99% of human history.
Finding things I can do, and people I can help. Get involved and get organized!
Being involved in a local socialist org, having community, logging out
It helps to realize that all times are troubled times.
The first noble truth of buddhism is: “Life is suffering”.
Not “Life in this decade in this country is suffering”. It’s not a locally-scoped phenomenon.
I started a sub as a distraction.
I renewed my tram card today, it expired a few months ago so I was paying full price instead of the low income price since then. I’m happy to have crossed that out of my to-do list
This could be its own post. I posted there about going to get a haircut and asking if sport clips is more or less the Hooters of haircut places. (I’ve never been to sport clips)
I checked the planning of my hairdresser but unfortunately my usual isn’t available this week. it’s not the same if it’s not the regular, mostly because of the chat.
Following news from China where pretty much all the positive developments are happening today.
Simple, I don’t get knee deep into politics and whatever everyone else is doom scrolling on.
you’ve heard about global warming though, right? You don’t exactly need to doomscroll to at least have an intellectual understanding of what kind of situation we’re in.
nihilism
