How to Move Past “We’re Doomed.”

Feeling trapped in the cycle of doom and gloom? It's time to break free. Discover strategies to overcome the overwhelming sense of doom, fostering resilience and optimism in the face of adversity. Let's journey together towards a brighter, more hopeful future.

Can we learn just enough of the bad that helps us to be better human beings?

Maybe in the quest of being knowledgable human beings, we are taking on too much.

• Is it possible to structure our knowledge intake and trust certain sources to have a good understanding of the world without going crazy and without taking on more stress?

Hegelian hope

Moving between opposing views and looking for different angles will help us find the best way forward

• In order to develop and grow as a world, we as individuals need to be kept happy, healthy, and well looked after
• This is about an educated understanding rather than a fearful response to water rising and pollution becoming unbearable or to a life without travel and simple luxuries we have learned to love

Fearful, but grateful

A recent article in The New York Times dealt with these fears we currently have that it’s all just going to end due to the stupidity of man

• Charles Blow claims we are returning to a mindset of an uncertain future
• Perhaps the antidote to this dread is mindset, is selecting what we allow our eyes to consume, and in electing world leaders that will listen to the people…hoping things will continue to change for the better

Staying sane

To use foresight and to tackle the world’s problems one individual at a time, we must be of sane mind

• We must also understand the problems and empathize enough that we want to give money to organizations that help, offer up our homes to those in need when we can, and do jobs that help shape a better future
• Society needs journalism
• Journalists who seek the abstract truth and share important stories rather than sensational ones are helping individuals
• They can also feature good in society, inspiring others to do the same or articulating where people can find help

An image-centric world

Social media can impact our mental health in many ways

• We should see and understand the truth, but often what we see has also been warped or falsified in some way
• The image-rich world of social media can be an overwhelming emotional experience
• Is the problem the images?
• Do we think emotionally instead of rationally when we understand ‘the news’ in this way?

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