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You have to find a balance. Set yourself a weekly limit of how much news you consume and take some time for a hobby or family or something to balance it out.
There is no use reading the 3rd article a day about why Palantyr is a techno fascist nightmare that dooms us all. You got it the first time, right?
There is only so much we can take on the regular. Maybe instead of consuming it, we spend some more time fixing things. Which is hard of course but much more rewarding.
my sanity saving hobbies are creative. i make music and i make food. they keep me alive, both literally and figuratively.
find small ways to inject joy into the things you do. similar to playing whammageddon at christmas. find tiny ways to rebel against the regime that chafes you. you know all those krasnov stickers you see vandalizing public property? carry around a sharpie and draw hitler mustaches on them. idk. you do you. the tiny acts of rebellion will spark life into your soul.
100% this.
A person who knows nothing and does nothing is, in practice, identical to someone who knows and sees everything on the daily but is too demoralized to do anything about it.
Wise words.
I try to focus on my spheres of influence and use the logic from power mapping to make sure the bulk of my attention and efforts on impactful things that I can actually change but even still it's simply impossible to even exist in those spaces without being bombarded by well everything that's happening. It is painful to have to 'filter out' human suffering just to be able to focus on other human suffering.