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Oct. 28th, 2015 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethThe problem with the world is, there is a lot of it.
That's the good thing with the world too, especially when out of this whole world one's social circle tends to be made of the same few people, recombining in new fandoms. I mean you can get a convention of a couple few hundred people together out of a world this size, so it's a pretty good size. But.
The problem with the world is, whenever you go see what's happening, something bad is happening.
There's seven billion of us. Some of them will be having bad problems right now. And the rest of them, once informed, will probably care, at least a bit.
But we mostly can't do very much about it. I mean, I can't do much of anything for America, and even British politics seems to happen regardless, and there's really just me, sitting in my pyjamas at home, as my whole resources.
So then there's a lot more upset to go round than there is help to go round.
That doesn't seem like it's working properly.
I have considered selecting a small group of people and only caring about them, but since bad things will still continue to happen to them, and resources would become even more limited, that doesn't seem very helpful.
But I can sit down in an excellent mood having read a very good book and there will be a string of posts in a row and some of them will be lies or leave the story off a decade ago in a way that is effectively a lie and other things will just be true but bad and it'll all stack up and then
someone says a thing
and boom!
saying a thing back.
but it's not just to them, it's like, how much annoyed is there today? Oh, all the annoyed! here, lightning rod of a comment.
and I can do that to pretty much anyone on the internet, though obviously I try not to seek out comment threads because wow that goes poorly.
So there always sufficient badness to provoke a bad mood and sufficient words said somewhere to lightning rod that bad mood.
That seems poorly organised somehow.
And not getting full of feelings about stuff being bad just doesn't seem like the appropriate response.
I shall go read books about wisdom and compassion and try and think of a better way to deal.
Or possibly I shall read about superheroes and stuff blowing up and days that are, if not saved, substantially repaired by the end of the story.
That's the good thing with the world too, especially when out of this whole world one's social circle tends to be made of the same few people, recombining in new fandoms. I mean you can get a convention of a couple few hundred people together out of a world this size, so it's a pretty good size. But.
The problem with the world is, whenever you go see what's happening, something bad is happening.
There's seven billion of us. Some of them will be having bad problems right now. And the rest of them, once informed, will probably care, at least a bit.
But we mostly can't do very much about it. I mean, I can't do much of anything for America, and even British politics seems to happen regardless, and there's really just me, sitting in my pyjamas at home, as my whole resources.
So then there's a lot more upset to go round than there is help to go round.
That doesn't seem like it's working properly.
I have considered selecting a small group of people and only caring about them, but since bad things will still continue to happen to them, and resources would become even more limited, that doesn't seem very helpful.
But I can sit down in an excellent mood having read a very good book and there will be a string of posts in a row and some of them will be lies or leave the story off a decade ago in a way that is effectively a lie and other things will just be true but bad and it'll all stack up and then
someone says a thing
and boom!
saying a thing back.
but it's not just to them, it's like, how much annoyed is there today? Oh, all the annoyed! here, lightning rod of a comment.
and I can do that to pretty much anyone on the internet, though obviously I try not to seek out comment threads because wow that goes poorly.
So there always sufficient badness to provoke a bad mood and sufficient words said somewhere to lightning rod that bad mood.
That seems poorly organised somehow.
And not getting full of feelings about stuff being bad just doesn't seem like the appropriate response.
I shall go read books about wisdom and compassion and try and think of a better way to deal.
Or possibly I shall read about superheroes and stuff blowing up and days that are, if not saved, substantially repaired by the end of the story.