• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    There are some holdouts, here and there. But, they are a tiny minority.

    This subject makes me really sad. It makes me want to go for a walk and appreciate the mountains and green grass and flowers and berries. I’m excited for snow, already.

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      4 hours ago

      it feels like the industry i used to feel excited for is going head first into enshittification.

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 hours ago

        The road to hell is paved by good intentions.

        I think most people involved just have really shitty moral compasses. A lot of them look the other way to pay the bills, jingle jangle shiny nice life; others probably don’t even see it, rationalizing or even believing that what they’re doing is good; and other still probably genuinely think what they’re doing is good, their knowledge base formed from a place of self-unaware extreme privilege, but effectively exactly the opposite.

        Too many people in this world have no concept or deliberation of worldview and morality. Many of them just lost, most of them followers, so few able to make any real change. Humanity is sick and has been fighting itself for eternity. Strife is normal, but this level and type of idiocy is something we are only recently starting to become aware of, helped further along by the very telecommunications that are now under control of the oppressors. We had a glimpse of truth for a while in the internet’s youth. I’d like to see that continue, but the very fact that the oppressors are now the ones POURING ALL of their wealth and influence on it shows us how much of a threat it was. It’s going to take those of us privileged enough to know, to push back ahead with everything we have, and lead society once again.

        If we are to gain our freedom from the attractive clutches of the manosphere and fascism and the conservative low-empathy creature ilk, we must systematically disassemble and dismantle their ideas and views with superiority, as with all changes in evolution. I believe truth will prevail, eventually. How much more pain and suffering we all endure, though, is yet to be known, and unlikely to be known by anyone alive today.

        Which brings us back to the efficiency equation of sustaining mental health and consolidation of power. This doesn’t have to be a long flight, but it will be, as the powers that be are quite infected with ideas completely opposite to good will, peace, and freedom, and are quite well equipped to continue fighting at this attrition pace.

        For you, and anyone else reading this, I implore you to sit alone with your own thoughts more often, and work out why certain things are the way they are. Continue asking why, recursively. Inquire deeply when you see weakness or strength. Seek empathy and real solutions, not immediate blame. For almost all problems are NOT simple, and will take generational time to really solve, and generational wealth to get done. Everything adds up. Plant seeds of good.

        Seek community and be good to each other.

        And, yeah this is cheesy, but, to quote Peter Capaldi’s Doctor, “Never be cruel”, and “Love is always wise.”

        I love hiking and the fresh mountain air in the spring. The quiet, the sun, the breeze, and the views. It reminds me that we are all just visitors here, and one day, every single one of us is going to have to say goodbye and take the forever sleep. Appreciate what you have, but always strive for more.

        Think, deliberate, rest, fight, help others, repeat.

        It’s okay to fight for what’s right, it’s the right thing to do, even. Don’t let anybody ever convince you otherwise.