@nprofile1q... I read the blog post and felt like I could relate to it very well, then I read the comments from @nprofile1q..., @nprofile1q... and @nprofile1q... and felt like I could relate to those as well 😄
This time I feel like it's not just us, the world has gone to shit in many ways and it seems like everyone is feeling it these days.... The way I would describe it is that our world has lost its peace and sanity, I feel like there is no baseline stability anymore.... We lost our peace with all these wars and violence, when the most corrupt abusers and charlatans got into power. And we lost our sanity when we got hit with a flood of misinformation in the form of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, etc. I don't know what happened during covid but all of these BS started gaining a lot of traction during that time, maybe sitting at home all day looking at their phones have made people loose their minds a little bit. And of course all of these things are interconnected, people loosing their sanity helped some of those corrupt assholes get elected, and then they in turn started attacking science and education because they see knowledge as a threat.
This maelstrom of shit has affected projects like TROM and others because people can't be thinking about future progress when there is no baseline stability anymore. Peace and sanity are essential for everyone to just take a break and look at our world, work on improving things, etc. But right now people are overwhelmed, all of us are. There are just too many problems and we can't fight them all at once.... And here I'm talking about the people who actually care about the world and these issues, because I always felt like this was a minority - most people are either busy doing their jobs or busy consuming in this society, now that even their attention is commodified and traded on these internet platforms.
I don't know what the solution here is, in some cases things are outside of our control so all we can do is hope and wait for it to get better.... And in the meantime it might be useful for us to focus on areas where we can actually make some impact in the world, even if by a little, so that if we ever get past this shit-storm people may have some things to look out for.....
P.S. BTW, I just gotta say that I'm kinda impressed with how well you were able to explain this thing (that we were all feeling to some extend) with the use of some simple diagrams made of stick figures and circles 😄 You have a good way of conceptualizing ideas and explaining it to people in a simple manner, that is a skill man.....
This time I feel like it's not just us, the world has gone to shit in many ways and it seems like everyone is feeling it these days.... The way I would describe it is that our world has lost its peace and sanity, I feel like there is no baseline stability anymore.... We lost our peace with all these wars and violence, when the most corrupt abusers and charlatans got into power. And we lost our sanity when we got hit with a flood of misinformation in the form of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, etc. I don't know what happened during covid but all of these BS started gaining a lot of traction during that time, maybe sitting at home all day looking at their phones have made people loose their minds a little bit. And of course all of these things are interconnected, people loosing their sanity helped some of those corrupt assholes get elected, and then they in turn started attacking science and education because they see knowledge as a threat.
This maelstrom of shit has affected projects like TROM and others because people can't be thinking about future progress when there is no baseline stability anymore. Peace and sanity are essential for everyone to just take a break and look at our world, work on improving things, etc. But right now people are overwhelmed, all of us are. There are just too many problems and we can't fight them all at once.... And here I'm talking about the people who actually care about the world and these issues, because I always felt like this was a minority - most people are either busy doing their jobs or busy consuming in this society, now that even their attention is commodified and traded on these internet platforms.
I don't know what the solution here is, in some cases things are outside of our control so all we can do is hope and wait for it to get better.... And in the meantime it might be useful for us to focus on areas where we can actually make some impact in the world, even if by a little, so that if we ever get past this shit-storm people may have some things to look out for.....
P.S. BTW, I just gotta say that I'm kinda impressed with how well you were able to explain this thing (that we were all feeling to some extend) with the use of some simple diagrams made of stick figures and circles 😄 You have a good way of conceptualizing ideas and explaining it to people in a simple manner, that is a skill man.....