I’m really worried about the state of the US despite being a white male who was I’ll coast right through it. I’ll also accept “I don’t” and “very poorly” as answers

  • rufus
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    10 months ago

    Stoicism, move somewhere else, get active, make the small world around you better and stop reading national/world news.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
      2·
      10 months ago

      This is my approach as well. If I can’t change it I don’t let it occupy my mind. I focus on actions I can take to make things better/mitigate problems for myself and the people I care about and that’s it.

      • rufus
        1·
        10 months ago

        I too think that this is the correct approach. I mean if you can’t change something, you can make a decision to either let it drag you down, or avoid it. I always try not to focus on negativity and I don’t like drama.

        Granted, this isn’t always easy. And I don’t know if this applies to (for example) the political situation and society in the US. I can’t relate to that too much. I mean there is so much populism and I don’t know what I’d do if half of my neighbors were in the mindset to vote for right-wing a-holes, there were hundreds of school shootings each year, my medication was unaffordable to me and women’s reproductive rights were cancelled. I mean you can’t really ‘avoid’ that. I don’t want to bash the USA but it’s somewhat beyond my own reality. I struggle with other things in my life. But all of that isn’t my achievement. I was simply born someplace else.

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
          2·
          10 months ago

          Granted, this isn’t always easy. And I don’t know if this applies to (for example) the political situation and society in the US. I can’t relate to that too much. I mean there is so much populism and I don’t know what I’d do if half of my neighbors were in the mindset to vote for right-wing a-holes, there were hundreds of school shootings each year, my medication was unaffordable to me and women’s reproductive rights were cancelled. I mean you can’t really ‘avoid’ that. I don’t want to bash the USA but it’s somewhat beyond my own reality. I struggle with other things in my life. But all of that isn’t my achievement. I was simply born someplace else.

          All that are things I can’t do anything about. so I don’t let it occupy my mind. I’m fortunate to be in good health but if that were to change I’d deal with it as best I can. Nothing I can do to make it cheaper. I vote for whatever good that does but outside election time I focus on things I can actually do.