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Enjoy your life and vote for the future you want. Can't ask for much more from the average citizen.
I live by the boyscouts rule. Leave this place a little cleaner than when you came here.
Seriously. Some of the things that philosophy does is get you to focus on things that are local so you can see the change, and things you can do something about. Now the world is a better place because you looked at the places you were and did something that is possible for you to do. We should all do this
Excellent rule to live by! Lots of people doing little things makes big changes. It's always worth doing the little things!
Every generation says the world is going to shit. Sure aspects suck but generally we live in the best times humanity has ever seen.
Sees climate change waving in the distance
Agreed it's a big problem but there are a lot of people and countries actively trying to fix things. I definitely feel like we are living in the Twilight Zone in more recent years but still overall the average person is living a better life now than any other time in human history.
oh boy we got iPhones and lost everything else!
In the distance? Glaciers are now only the shadow of what they were. 80% of insects are gone. Bees are lost. Etc.
Not every generation has scientific proof of the world going to shit
We can’t necessarily judge the stability of the underlying system by the material conditions it produces at any given moment.
I will say that even with all we see the world. It is not going to shit it's very much improving better than the world my parents lived in. On a long enough timeline we win, When it comes to social political change. So the world is great in all but one aspect and that's the climate and with that I can't do shit about it.
So I may not be able to save the world but I can be one of the helpers that make someone life just a little bit better.
it could be helping out at a shelter. paying for someones meal at a restaurant. telling someone you like the thing they created. all of it helps while we brace for the hardships of crisis created by men long dead and their undead, unfeeling Corps still impacting our world.
I like this comment you created!
I agree, in part.
The reason why we‘re winning is because people literally changed the course of history.
It is a spectrum imo, not black and white and the closer you are to the issue, the easier it is to solve.
Thats why many books propose the „circles of influence“ that split your world into things you control, things you influence and the weather (which you neither control nor really influence).
The first you should take the most serious, the second you should participate in, not loose sleep over (voting, lobbying, speaking up about problems), the last you should leave be since you cant change it.
The hard part is deciding which is which. Participating in political discourse definitely is important imo.
When you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do, do what you can.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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