A Boring Dystopia

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there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop (fedia.io)

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes and no... mostly No. This train of thought depicts far more than symptoms of depression. Depression is a lot more than these kinds of thoughts.

What this train of thought is getting at is that we're acutely aware that the whole world is fucked up, but we also have to take care of our day-to-day lives. If anything, this train of thought speaks less to the symptoms of depression and more to the 1) powerlessness and 2) absurdity of modern living. We are powerless to stop global disasters, yet are more aware of them than ever before. And we are absurdly still tending to minutiae of life as if none of those things were happening, because that's how life works, and the more you think about it the more absurd it gets.