collapse of the old society

Unless you’re saving lives or something, abandon the arrogant, modernist belief that your individual labor has meaning. Adopt the posture of a hospice worker. View your role as tending to a dying institution, minimizing the immediate suffering of the people trapped within it, including yourself. Focus on the enjoyable interpersonal relationships of your office. Shield your subordinates from upper-management toxicity. Practice extreme, localized empathy.

Thought this was worth reviewing again, specifically "extreme, localized empathy." We can buy into our place in the workforce as something we're doing to make life easier for our favorite coworker instead of something we're doing for "the company."

This is why looking for a job right now is just so surreal. I have always relied on intrinsinct motivation to push me beyond what the extrinsinct can. But that is gone. Its all just extrinsinct and its hard to show excitement in the same way. I always felt disgust at fake it till you make it type stuff but at this point just pretending I want the job is the fake it part.

Planet is not dying - it just is trying to get rid of humanity. Life existed 3.7billion years before us and will exist billion of years in the future. Humans were just a very short 65 million year long mistake.

1. Yes, it does sound exactly like being a minority in hostile environment (I can only ascertain that's what being gay in conservative society feels like, but I can assume any minority can be described that way).
2. “Deep Adaptation" sounds very close to what we have societally do in Poland and it can very easily become a trap where you can't meaningfully change anything in exchange for feeling a little bit better about yourself.

She’s describing me at work