Read on Twitter
- Current politics
- All the old men in Hollywood/music/companies you like or trust end up being creepers/rapists
- Everything on fire/dying/being shot every day
It makes all the grey-area leeway we used to give people/things shrivel up.
It makes the knee-jerk reaction normal
- All the old men in Hollywood/music/companies you like or trust end up being creepers/rapists
- Everything on fire/dying/being shot every day
It makes all the grey-area leeway we used to give people/things shrivel up.
It makes the knee-jerk reaction normal
So it spreads to everything in your life, cus you& #39;re f"ING exhausted.
All the goodwill you& #39;d extend to friends, family, strangers on the internet is gone.
And you hate it cus you& #39;re always waiting for that other shoe to drop.
So let& #39;s set some boundaries for kindness/leniency
All the goodwill you& #39;d extend to friends, family, strangers on the internet is gone.
And you hate it cus you& #39;re always waiting for that other shoe to drop.
So let& #39;s set some boundaries for kindness/leniency
First - big picture stuff (fires in the Amazon, school shooting, national politics) decide where you stand, and if able, contribute towards fixing things. This can be small local stuff or donating to causes but, and this is the important part, then take a step back.
Remember that your attention is money for news outlets so they& #39;ll keep showing poorly researched rage pieces as long as it& #39;s lucrative. When you stop paying them attention (or retweeting stories by them) then they& #39;ll change... Eventually.
You also need to step back for your own mental health. Everyone is exhausted from constant adrenaline spikes after every rage headline. It& #39;s invigorating at first, but over time the negative outweighs the positive. So time to retrain your brain. Get it back to baseline.
Second - celebrities/people you enjoy in a parasocial capacity (people who you feel a connection with via YouTube or Twitch, but they don& #39;t know you other than via screen name at best) feel free to ditch the ones you don& #39;t like, stop supporting them. They don& #39;t deserve your
Attention if they& #39;ve messed up, offended you or been predatory. Also let others know about this. But don& #39;t actively stalk, harass, doxx, etc them. That& #39;s just attention, negative though it is. And it doesn& #39;t get them out of your life. They don& #39;t deserve you.
For people on the internet you interact with, mutuals (who aren& #39;t Botts or trolls) if they do something shitty to you, first, tell them that it was shitty. If they don& #39;t respond or change, call em out on that shitty behavior. If they STILL DON& #39;T CHANGE block and move on
Cus IRL people should be extended a bit more leeway than celebrities and big issues, so feel free to extend IRL people a couple of do overs. Everyone fucks up sometimes, so you get to choose whether the other person deserves a second chance or not. It& #39;s a personal choice
And if another mutual gives them leeway, and you don& #39;t? Then you respect that mutual. They didn& #39;t go over to the dark side, they just choose to let them have a bit of grace.
If the IRL person has abusive/harmful to another party, then you can bump em up to Celebrity level and block/etc. Them.
