Personally the last few years have been inspiring for me, particularly 2022. Having it affirmed that you're part of a spiritual and moral elite, and that all societal institutions are bankrupt, can be very freeing.
Of course that's not to say a return to 2020 lockdowns should be permitted. At this point it should be recognised as the overtly misanthropic declaration of war it really is.
Honestly… I don’t feel like much of an “elite”…
I spend enormous amounts of my time dealing with admin and crushing bureaucracy. It certainly doesn’t make me feel “elite” in any way…
I’m just so very tired. I’m tired of waking up every day and realizing/confirming that, as you say, societal institutions are bankrupt…
I dunno. At this point, I try to ignore this stuff, where I can. But if I get plunged into lockdown again? Or have my travel limited again?
Just say you're a full-time carer for a family member. That makes all travel trips essential, no matter how trivial (although I've seen what Australia and its pigs are like these days, good luck).
A sense of purpose is a gift and its own reward. Once you realise, as you seem to have, that this is an existential struggle upon which your own actual destruction might hinge, it makes life very simple in some ways. You've got the purest purpose a person can have, regardless of how empty this crumbling society feels. Lots are fighting the same battle, although the issue of how we stop being so invisible to eachother is one of the big challenges.
Personally the last few years have been inspiring for me, particularly 2022. Having it affirmed that you're part of a spiritual and moral elite, and that all societal institutions are bankrupt, can be very freeing.
Of course that's not to say a return to 2020 lockdowns should be permitted. At this point it should be recognised as the overtly misanthropic declaration of war it really is.
Honestly… I don’t feel like much of an “elite”… I spend enormous amounts of my time dealing with admin and crushing bureaucracy. It certainly doesn’t make me feel “elite” in any way…
I’m just so very tired. I’m tired of waking up every day and realizing/confirming that, as you say, societal institutions are bankrupt…
I dunno. At this point, I try to ignore this stuff, where I can. But if I get plunged into lockdown again? Or have my travel limited again?
I really don’t know if I can handle that again.
Just say you're a full-time carer for a family member. That makes all travel trips essential, no matter how trivial (although I've seen what Australia and its pigs are like these days, good luck).
A sense of purpose is a gift and its own reward. Once you realise, as you seem to have, that this is an existential struggle upon which your own actual destruction might hinge, it makes life very simple in some ways. You've got the purest purpose a person can have, regardless of how empty this crumbling society feels. Lots are fighting the same battle, although the issue of how we stop being so invisible to eachother is one of the big challenges.