Post 9oaT4SE89RaWbAmSw4 by cryptovexillologist@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9oaT4SE89RaWbAmSw4 by cryptovexillologist@mastodon.social
       2019-11-03T13:21:48Z
       
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       There's a mood I've seen around that I've been internally calling "Woke Fatalism," captured in things like r/aboringdystopiaIt's like "stringent refusal to acknowledge any large-scale reasons to be excited about the future"I get why it exists, but it frustrates me that there's not more of a drive to research times (even within living memory!) when things seemed similarly dire, and how those problems were overcome (at least in part)
       
 (DIR) Post #9oaT8viATFChCXxriC by cryptovexillologist@mastodon.social
       2019-11-03T13:22:29Z
       
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       I at least want more recognition that doing this in public can poison the mental state of people already fucked over by the forces described
       
 (DIR) Post #9oaT8ws89glcnjdKsa by cryptovexillologist@mastodon.social
       2019-11-03T13:24:57Z
       
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       My slapdash model of world history that gets me through the day is sort of like "things were Really Fuckin' Bad for almost all of human history, and I'm so grateful that warlords and plagues are not a daily concern; there's still so much work to be done, but a lot of absolute horrors have completely receded out of memory and I trust that we can fix the new ones with concerted effort"
       
 (DIR) Post #9oaUO1QNbzARDaP9cG by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
       2019-11-03T13:24:14Z
       
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       @cryptovexillologist gonna increase my output of this 100%
       
 (DIR) Post #9oaUO3GskGl4whyb5c by cryptovexillologist@mastodon.social
       2019-11-03T13:25:12Z
       
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       @a_breakin_glass Of woke fatalism, or of the drive to research and counter it?
       
 (DIR) Post #9oaUO5aS8TbM7z9Fs8 by a_breakin_glass@cybre.space
       2019-11-03T13:25:27Z
       
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       @cryptovexillologist woke fatalism
       
 (DIR) Post #9oaUO7RfE7l9tJ3GS0 by cryptovexillologist@mastodon.social
       2019-11-03T13:26:04Z
       
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       @a_breakin_glass Cool, thanks for declaring yourself to be incompatible with my efforts to improve my mental health, have a nice day
       
 (DIR) Post #9oaUO9XPRjXmNhksgS by woozle@toot.cat
       2019-11-03T14:16:18Z
       
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       @cryptovexillologist I'm very much in your corner on this. Fully-Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism is the future I am working (and bothering to get up in the morning) for.https://woozalia.com/wiki/WSA
       
 (DIR) Post #9obCVxSadAvNDs26KW by fluffy@queer.party
       2019-11-03T17:58:31Z
       
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       @cryptovexillologist @mxsparks personally I’m a fan of “optimistic nihilism” - no matter what we do the universe will eventually succumb to entropy, so we’d might as well try to make the time we have as good as possible for everyone.