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what we are living right now will be tragedies taught to future generations, like how we are taught about past world wars, attacks, genocides, so on. should we even be allowed to remember them in the future.
it is terrifying to me that i have no control, say or power to change anything right now. i'm not an adult, i live in a country that is largely uninvolved in most major events occurring at the moment. but i see and hear things. on the news, social media, word of mouth. and what i see most is people that don't care enough. yes, majority of people will acknowledge viral social media posts about people starving, dying, being taken away and give words of sympathy. i watch the news while sitting at dinner with my family. 'thousands dead', and we talk about work and school over footage of rubble. a few exchanges of "that's terrible" when our focus is on the tv. we keep eating. i've come to realise that people don't fully understand it or care enough. it's terrible, but as long as it's not us, right?
there is terror between short videos that people scroll everyday. funny video, dog video, ICE brutality, makeup video, bombs, Al, epstein, violence. terror now feels like a piece of the world that we see through 20 second videos amongst entertainment. another segment on the radio in the morning before the daily round of the same 200 songs played for the rest of the day. a new normal part of our day.
i've had a recurring thought for months now, every morning when i reach to turn off my alarm. sometime during the night while i was sleeping, across the world, bombs fell on somebody's breakfast plate. bombs on concrete on breakfast on bodies.
i see new things every day. there is no food left to eat in gaza. more uncovered horrors of the epstein files. genocide. brutality towards immigrants. femicide. headline, video, "did you hear that...". i cannot believe that the world keeps spinning, people still go to work and i still go to school and people still starve and be beaten and killed. i feel sick every second that i have an uninterrupted school day and go home and be safe. i am extremely privileged and i am so grateful for that. i cannot believe that the world does not stop for cries of children, devastation of peoples and their lands. i wish it was as clear to everybody as graffiti on the wall that they face when they first wake up, or permanent bold writing across the sky. we live in tragedy and it has been normalised.
fortunate people are so far removed from suffering unless they go out of their way to find it. it is getting increasingly difficult to find recent uncensored news sources about what is going on in the world, and i am sure that when found, they only show fractions of the full picture. even further away are the rich. the people, companies, governments and all that keep this fucking suffering machine running. it feels as if there is no way to opt out of having your work that you do to provide for yourself and your family out of the grasps of governments that will exchange it for missiles. "Every time I work my money destroys another country. But if don't work, my kids have no home or food. This is a literal nightmare" is one of thousands of comments i have seen.
it is blatantly obvious that the way the world is — confusion and chaos in media, panic, helplessness felt by all — is the way it was designed. i cannot think of anything that can't be traced back to governments, wars, the rich, or media outlets. i wish everyday for it to all fall apart. mass assassinations, overrunning of governments, company crashes. i hate all of them.
if you think for even a second that any documentation of any of these current tragic events are over-exaggerations or “false news”, you are wildly disconnected. media censorship is at an all-time high and it will likely take years for concrete collection of the drastic, inhumane measures taken during these times. the extent of the horror happening right now as you read this is incomprehensible. mass genocide and torture is unfortunately not a thing of the past, though it very well should be. current events seem like relapses in history — reoccurrences of brutality that humanity swore to never allow to happen again. how senseless are the people making these things happen?
there is an incredible crushing weight i feel on myself, and have heard many others say they feel on themselves. the weight of bearing witness to atrocities and not having a clear way to help, or do anything for the matter. i am removed from the sites of these situations, geographically and socially, but i care so much. it is unbearable to go on with my life knowing that this happens. what can i do? i cannot stay silent or stagnant. i can’t stand it.
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akira
what you said is beautiful and refreshing to hear, you’re already doing the right thing by really caring and keeping up with the news. minors are an oppressed class and it’s overwhelming and stressful to see adults go on with their lives, knowing that the people they work for and give money to rape and traffic children with no severe consequence. meanwhile, minors can’t even fight for themselves given that they’re never taken seriously and the very few rights and protection they have.
what we can do is, well, the basics, learn and recognise patterns such as propaganda and not follow the footsteps of ignorant adults today, organise and educate others while also keeping yourself educated by reading books or may i even suggest, communist theory. never stop asking questions and always dive deeper than just the surface level. the world is controlled by the bourgeois, not the people, and we the people have nothing to lose but our chains!
Elo <3
I feel the exact same way. What you can do is organize and seek community, where you can turn your anger into something producrive.
If you acknowledge, that the problem is rich people's profits and the entirety of the capitalist system, you could look out for communist groups or parties in your area.
If you're uncomfortable with that, maybe you'll find local community care things.
We can't stop all of the genocides, all of the wars, all of the injustices. But we can protect our local community. Even though you and I are privileged with (I assume) running water, reliable access to food and shelter, and so on, we can help even in our direct surrounding.
Maybe that helps. It helped me a lot.
Stay strong. I know it's painful, but also stay a shuman as you can, without shattering your mind. You can't help others, if you broke yourself💝
Virus
Having this convo in imp
I will write about this topic when i can
Also i made a blog with the same theme called hope
i’ll give it a read!
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mattzievox
The reality is that there is very little someone can do when they're removed from the situation to such an extent. Care alone is a human response and completely understadable but you also need to recognize that at this point in your life, the best you can do is be informed
I realize it feels like the sky is falling on you and you're right; it's evil that we have to go about our daily lives knowing in some other corner of the world there's people dying. I'm not going to tell you that there's always been people dying and always will be nor will I tell you to care less. What I will tell you, though, is that you need to take breaks from the news. I *know* that current events are (or feel) more important than your own mental health deteriorating because of the news but you're a person too. You can't pour from an empty cup!
The care you express alone is good enough for now and if you take the right steps, in the future you will be able to do more than just express care. For now, I suggest a tiny break from social media or whatever source you get your news from. Not for long, maybe just a few days
i don’t spend much time on social media, but i do limit my intake of news, as you suggest. it does feel detrimental to my mental health sometimes. it feels better when i communicate it to others though, like writing a blog post like this or discussing it with my friends/family. this is honestly my way of processing it so it does’t feel like as much of a weight on myself. thank you for the comment and advice :)
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