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I used the "cover your ears and sing" tactic. Basically turning off news and retreating into my own little bubble and just trying to maintain that in functional order as this is the only thing i can have at least some control over.
Beyond major events that seep through regardless, i have no idea whats going on. Which is kinda bad now that I'm on lemmy as this place doesn't have my countries specific sub/instance so i have no idea what's going on in my own country as well, but at the same time i really don't want to be constantly blasted with the worst shit happening across the world. I already have issues with being too negative and cynical.
I doubt that human brain, NT or ND, has evolved to keep up with modern news cycle that collects worst news across the world and just blast you 24/7 with it.
It's like the modern news cycle is designed to make a person feel bad by showing them things they can do almost nothing about, while hiding things close by that they might have at least some effect over.
But that Ignorance is how boomers got us into this mess, no? And ignoring issues because you can't do anything about them is what the elites want you to do, no?
Yes I am doing the same currently, but I feel like I lost to the system. I still have a bit of hope that something will change soon, but what if it doesn't? And will it change without me? Every other thing I have to do myself or it just won't happen, why would politics be different?
I think you're supposed to take action to improve the things you can, and accept the things you can't.
Well, I can’t change that grass grows all over earth or the sun comes up but any one of us could definitely change the trajectory of human history.
Yeah I'm fully aware it's not the best approach, but it does help in limiting the damage and having enough willpower/energy to do something when there's a slight chance of actually effecting some change. Otherwise just the scale of it will grind down any single individual and spit out a burned up husk.
So cant completely turn off everything, but at least limit it significantly. Yes there are people suffering in Africa or middle East or south America or north America or even Europe or Asia, but there isn't much i can do about it and being constantly bombarded with overwhelming amount of negative information just feeds the helplessness feeling and erodes away the will to do anything. Which is kinda crucial when there is actually something that can be done.
Bigger events will seep through the filter anyway and generally that's good enough to get the rough idea of what's happening. Aka like war in Iran started up again, but at the same time theres no point to start looking up videos of how many kids got blown up this time or any more specifics about it. Though once every 2-4 years or local equivalent of election cycle kinda have to crawl out under the rock to see where things have been heading and who might be able to slightly nudge towards the opposite direction.
Of course one can become more active even by just organizing local rallies or finding like minded individuals around themselves, but once again it has a limited effect and works just on a local sacle, it will not have any immediate effect what's happening on the other side of the planet or becoming Luigi, but that does require opportune moment and nothing to lose/no one depending on you.
Basically limiting information flow and choosing which battles to fight, instead of getting overwhelmed with the sheer amount of negative information and trying to fight all the battles all the time and subsequently completely burning out.
That's the best strategy imo. It's a bit hard to keep the temptation at bay but the peace is well worth it.