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Are we ever going to be able to live in a time where we don't feel constant anxiety over the future? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by refolde@hexbear.net to c/doomer@hexbear.net

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The state of the world haunts the back of my mind every day. I can never push it out.

I can feel brief moments of joy, but I can't say I'm ever happy, not while the world is like this.

Maybe that very world is a dystopia where the U.S.'s iron grip is so solidified that it becomes clear that nothing can ever challenge it, so no one has any expectations that things "could" get better anymore. The same world where the unbreakable, invincible Israeli empire is established in the middle east and maybe beyond. Constant anxiety is replaced by a feeling of constant dread and sadness, as "U.S.-realism" or "colonial-realism" "genocide-realism" becomes the law of reality.

At that point, the only real option is to "escape" from this hellhole.

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[–] Chana@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

To be aware of the state of things and injustice is to have a fury and anxiety. But this can also be sidelined for living one's life. With practice and hobbies and community and organizing. Every resilient group finds ways to do these kinds of things, and under much harsher conditions than most of us face.

But of course I mention this in a non-judgmental sense because this soothing and compartmentalization is not universally easy, it is not the same for everyone.