This is how society is going right now, the environment is degrading rapidly (especially emissions for stupid stuff like cryptocurrency mining and training AI models -not to replace tedious work- but to replace creative work), the billionaires are literally running the government now, the Mainstream Media has acquiesced to power, social media is now just outrage porn, religious/racist/nationalist nonsense is -once again- inflaming wars around the world... and all the while people are saying either "you are too concerned" or you are not concerned enough about this other culture-war fringe problem. It's easy enough to say "oh, it's just me, I'm not being 'joyful' enough" or something... but should I be? Should we all just throw our hands up and say "it's too big and too hard to stare REAL problems in the eye, I should just distract and/or insulate myself from reality"...?
We live in the Internet Age, access to information is abundant, you cannot UNSEE the problems that the world faces. How long do we plan to try to cope our way past the problems rather than fix them? How long are we going to allow the selfish to distract and divide us? When are we allowed to say Capitalism is a disaster, Religion is wrong, our social norms are trash, and our Institutions are not accomplishing the goals that they were designed for?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://pellucid00.blogspot.com/2024/12/head-in-sand.html