Particularly - America.

I personally have found that, I live in the past to cope. Nostalgia is my drug. It sometimes doesn’t help because all it does is that it makes me yearn and beg for things to be back to where things were. Because it warps my mind into opening time capsules whenever I watch an old show or listen to an episode of some niche radio show that long stopped producing new material.

However, it helps because, it at least reminds me that there are some things that I can revisit. If I couldn’t revisit anything, play the games I played, read the books I read, watched the movies/shows I used to, then I’d be up shit’s creek because I’d have to face the fucked up things people consider what are the ‘best that’s offered’.

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    Avoid news. Turn off internet. Literally, stop looking for like two weeks. The difference is palatable. I’ve used this technique a handful of times over the years.

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    Try to learn more, focus on creative/constructive approaches or outlets (not necessarily artistic in nature, but may be).

    Sometimes I’ll read into history for something or other and find myself mildly amused and sort of relieved to see how familiar the accounts are. Of course it would be better if they weren’t so familiar, but it goes to show things aren’t freshly awful. It’s a lot of the same old garbage we’ve yet to effectively deal with, same as ever, but we have been dealing with it.

    In other words, I try to take steps to regain perspective to recognize there’s as much, if not at times more, good to experience than bad, and even if I struggle to find much good, I can try to make my own sort of good to keep myself going.

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    Therapy.

    I saw my need for therapy coming over a year ago, and wait was so long I didn’t get therapy started until October.

    That and I am hoping to start writing. A blog of some sort. Help me think through everything in a way that might help the two or however many readers I manage to gather.

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    Quit running from myself. Sit in silence. Leave bits of fruit about for birds and squirrels because they make me happy.

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    I read theory so I can better understand why the world functions in the way that it does and better predict where its heading. That’s the first step in knowing how to make things better. Eventually, when I get the chance, organizing will be the way to put theory to practice and directly work towards making the world a better place.

    Trying to ignore or hide from the world around me doesn’t make it any less scary, only understanding it better does, and understanding is useless without action.

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      Lol. Welcome to chasing a pipe dream or crippling depression.

      The answer is largely as simple as socialism plus Kant with some secular Jesus because any system that condones human exploitation will eventually implode due to psychopaths’ willingness to sacrifice others for power.

      But literally basically everything is done wrong to maximize exploitation. Housing, schooling, medicine, food… All fucked to make the richest richer.

      Liberalism is the slow road to fascism.

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        What in the world is socialism plus Kant? I will always defend the study of Kant and view him to the one of the most important figures in the history of the world to read but the foundation concepts of the majority of Kant’s ideas are contradictory with socialism. Deontological ethics are diametrically opposed to dialectal materialism. The presumption of the goal preceding the effect in our analysis fails to look at the underlying reality pinning the action to the world. Even if we accept the categorical imperative’s universality formation, the Kingdom of End’s prior assumption relies on the idea that the autonomous will can even exist, something that is obviously not reasonable within a dialectical materialist framework.

        The idea of the transcendental idealism is a phenomenal, not materialist view of the world. Knowledge beginning with sense and not experience would completely be opposed to essentially the entire conclusions and analysis of Marx.

        Sorry if I misrepresenting what you mean but my understanding of Kant would make this whole concept be nonsensical.

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          In short, Kant said people should be the goal, not the means.

          It’s ok to make yourself dinner.

          It’s ok to make your friend dinner because you want to make them happy.

          It’s not ok to make your friend dinner because you want to have sex with them.

          It’s not ok to make your friend make you dinner because you don’t want to cook.

          Every facet of capitalism is exploitation by design as profit is unpaid labor. However classless socialism isn’t automatically devoid of exploitation.

          None of us asked to be here. I certainly don’t want to be here anymore. Placing the value of a life upon the imaginary lines it landed between, how much money it’s parents had, or the color of it’s skin are all pretty fucked up.

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            First of all, Kant’s principle of humanity is just one component of his philosophy. Boiling down all of Kant’s corpus to saying that that that is it “in short” is ridiculous. You can’t just separate the principle of humanity from Kant as a whole. The categorical imperative is not just the principle of humanity. You also said that it is socialism plus Kant but didn’t even seem to read my explanation of immaterialism in Kantian metaphysics.

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              Because you asked what I meant. Of course what I meant didn’t include your response to it. You almost seem offended my thoughts weren’t yours.

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                It’s because your thoughts aren’t inline with Kant’s actual philosophy and is an oversimplification of it to just one principal which bastardizes both what socialism is and what Kant wrote.

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        This is idealist, not materiakist. Maximizing hunan exploitation isn’t a law of physics, but a byproduct of modes of production like Capitalism. Socialism is not a simple answer, but it is correct regardless. Moreover, Marxism already has a philosophical component in Dialwctical Materialism, why replace it with Kant?

        I suggest you read theory yourself.

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          It’s what people end up thinking when they understand Kant through watching YouTube videos instead of reading and understand Marx through Reddit posts. People need to learn to keep their mouths shut if they have not educated themselves on a matter.

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    tonight im drinkin but normally fantasy but I can’t allow myself much outside of bedtime. Like here is a nice one. Wouldn’t it be great if that cigar shaped extra solar object had uploaded us all to a simulation and destroyed our more polluting constructs and the worlds biosphere were actually healing now. Would be nice.

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      Planet will be fine but that’s like a couple million years in the future. Don’t worry, our sun has billions of years before it expands and consumes our planet.

      Nom nom

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    I read the news just to entertain myself. And then I ignore the content because most news are just depressing: Armed conflict here, murder there, capital offense, you get the gist.

    For several months I didn’t read any news, that works too. You’ll realize that most of the stuff in the tv and tabloids doesn’t affect you.

    And for the third point I do whatever it takes to distract, lose in or occupy myself completely. That could be a book with a nice story or some outdoor activity. Yesterday I did some kind of mini-camping. I took my bicycle and brought a camping chair, gas stove, water and cocoa powder and rode a bit into the woods. And then I had some quiet relaxing time reading a book on my phone. The hot chocolate and a thick jacket kept me from freezing. It was only 10 °C/50 °F and a bit windy.
    I’ll repeat that tomorrow but this time I’ll switch the cocoa to tomato-soup-in-a-cup. The cocoa was too sweet for my taste.

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    I’m traveling to a different Quantum version of our universe. I’m done with all this shit.

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    Weed, psychedelics, gaming, and my least/most favorite alcohol (work in progress, it’s complicated).

    If you’re upset or feel bad, just do what you can and hang on. If you make it through a year, a month, a day… thats a victory. Thats doing something. Things won’t be like this forever. Nothing lasts forever.

    We don’t have to go back to the previous status quo after we weather the storm either. We can make things better for all. Don’t let the tiny box thinking people with low standards convince you otherwise.