I care about my friends and family not fucking dying either due heat stroke, starvation, dangerous increases in Co2 concentration or some eco-fascist.
yeah that's what organizing and mutual aid are for, actions which are difficult to take for people wracked by hopelessness and anxiety.
realizing and admitting how completely and utterly fucked we all are
see this is where there's a problem due to (maybe unintentional) semantic waffling. this statement potentially means both "accept and engage with reality no matter how bleak" as well as "reality is hopeless and not worth engaging with". any and every self-described leftist should be on-board with the former and wholly against the latter.
I think we're all doomed and that things won't get better.
you're free to feel that vibe, but it's ultimately an unprovable and thought-terminating statement. and you're gonna get pushback from leftists because it's literally expressing hopeless doomerism, not engaging with the harsh reality. I also think it's a counterproductive vibe when it comes to agitating and organizing, so unless you have a strong mask of revolutionary optimism when engaging in real life it's probably not a helpful mindset for you and those around you either.
i personally doubt that "things are hopeless" messaging helps motivate people, at least in my experience it does the opposite. but i don't think that's your intention which is why i'm trying to tease out two distinct essences/ideas behind the signifier, and maybe help modify the signifier so that it isn't communicating such hopelessness to people. this is where/why semantics can be important: understanding what you intend to communicate as compared to what people interpret. also exploring how indistinct signifiers can make it harder to for a person to conceptualize/communicate reality.
so when you communicate // someone interprets the essence that things are hopeless, that essence implies that there's no reason to engage with reality because we're all doomed anyway. this is different from the essence: "things are not fine, stop grillpilling, shit's fucked and we need to get to work". which is true and imo a requirement to leftist praxis. so that's where i'll push back on your semantics, because enough people are interpreting hopelessness even if it's not your intention.
but the semantic problem also suggests a problem with conceptualization, where the two distinct essences themselves are conflated. this is why i try to draw a distinction between a vibe and a truth in my mind: "things are hopeless" is a vibe. "climate change will make things harder in specific ways" is a truth. the latter can be engaged with and used to modify my praxis. the former doesn't do anything for me or anyone around me. vibes can certainly be motivating or demotivating factors (and should be utilized as tools when interacting with non-radicalized people) but we have to be careful not to let them encroach on truth in our minds.
gotta go to work so don't have a chance to proofread this for coherence lol
yeah that's what organizing and mutual aid are for, actions which are difficult to take for people wracked by hopelessness and anxiety.
see this is where there's a problem due to (maybe unintentional) semantic waffling. this statement potentially means both "accept and engage with reality no matter how bleak" as well as "reality is hopeless and not worth engaging with". any and every self-described leftist should be on-board with the former and wholly against the latter.
you're free to feel that vibe, but it's ultimately an unprovable and thought-terminating statement. and you're gonna get pushback from leftists because it's literally expressing hopeless doomerism, not engaging with the harsh reality. I also think it's a counterproductive vibe when it comes to agitating and organizing, so unless you have a strong mask of revolutionary optimism when engaging in real life it's probably not a helpful mindset for you and those around you either.
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i personally doubt that "things are hopeless" messaging helps motivate people, at least in my experience it does the opposite. but i don't think that's your intention which is why i'm trying to tease out two distinct essences/ideas behind the signifier, and maybe help modify the signifier so that it isn't communicating such hopelessness to people. this is where/why semantics can be important: understanding what you intend to communicate as compared to what people interpret. also exploring how indistinct signifiers can make it harder to for a person to conceptualize/communicate reality.
so when you communicate // someone interprets the essence that things are hopeless, that essence implies that there's no reason to engage with reality because we're all doomed anyway. this is different from the essence: "things are not fine, stop grillpilling, shit's fucked and we need to get to work". which is true and imo a requirement to leftist praxis. so that's where i'll push back on your semantics, because enough people are interpreting hopelessness even if it's not your intention.
but the semantic problem also suggests a problem with conceptualization, where the two distinct essences themselves are conflated. this is why i try to draw a distinction between a vibe and a truth in my mind: "things are hopeless" is a vibe. "climate change will make things harder in specific ways" is a truth. the latter can be engaged with and used to modify my praxis. the former doesn't do anything for me or anyone around me. vibes can certainly be motivating or demotivating factors (and should be utilized as tools when interacting with non-radicalized people) but we have to be careful not to let them encroach on truth in our minds.
gotta go to work so don't have a chance to proofread this for coherence lol
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