I was going to use it in a post explaining antifa as a democrat party front group, but I'm trying to take a day off politics today...not succeeding very well LOL
Yeah, I've tried to take a break too but it is very difficult because of all the crap going on and the endless onslaught. That's why I've been doing music and tutorial posts as I try to write about something else. Yet the news keeps coming.
I stopped watching tv years ago. Nothing of value. I tend to be under educated on the latest crap in the news, because I'm spending my time learning, investing, helping people, checking up on my family, trying to start a business.... Why watch the news when you know its all being twisted into into nothing but propaganda.
Yeah I don't watch TV either. Well I download TV series and watch them. Yet all of that propaganda has also heavily invaded the internet and that is largely where I am encountering it now. Turning off the cable and TV though was a mind opening experience.
you have to take breaks for your own sanity; I have really messed myself up several times by wallowing in frustration and anger past a point where I needed to lay off for a coupla days
(That was the Information War Part Six where I talk about the emotional costs of doing this, btw)
At the bottom line, enough folks have to make these decsions for themselves, we can't make them think right.
And while I think we do help with these discussions of critical thinking and propaganda, people have to want to listen, so there is no point making yourself a nut. do what you can when you can.
These things become like a mind virus for me. If I start thinking of them I am actually more stressed and distracted UNTIL I write them. They are like a living thing nagging me with "Are we there yet?" type questions that don't stop until I write them down. So writing them down will give me some relief.
The problem is that there is so much going on around us that it keeps inspiring these thoughts that I'd rather not be thinking about. Yet, me wanting a break doesn't mean reality will stop and take a break, so my mind doesn't let me either. :(
Oh my gosh we need people like you who can break down the insanity and remind us what true values really are! Your words fire like a zombie shield! It is exhausting though.. we need to make more self sustaining zombie shields...
for me it's more of a Don Quixote complex, I think. If I don't raise the issues, then no one will
However, to be honest, I don't estimate I am having much effect.
Should I stop? Nope.
But it doesn't matter if I take a day off to rebuild my own strength...no one has manned battle stations due to what I write, and no one has been hung because they didn't heed my warnings
I'll keep at b/c maybe I will have an impact or wake up that one guy that gets shit done, or maybe that drip drip drip of Stevewisdom will seep in over time, LOL
Wow... excellent... exactly!!!
I wish I could take the credit for that one, but it's from http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=371335
I was going to use it in a post explaining antifa as a democrat party front group, but I'm trying to take a day off politics today...not succeeding very well LOL
Yeah, I've tried to take a break too but it is very difficult because of all the crap going on and the endless onslaught. That's why I've been doing music and tutorial posts as I try to write about something else. Yet the news keeps coming.
I stopped watching tv years ago. Nothing of value. I tend to be under educated on the latest crap in the news, because I'm spending my time learning, investing, helping people, checking up on my family, trying to start a business.... Why watch the news when you know its all being twisted into into nothing but propaganda.
Yeah I don't watch TV either. Well I download TV series and watch them. Yet all of that propaganda has also heavily invaded the internet and that is largely where I am encountering it now. Turning off the cable and TV though was a mind opening experience.
you have to take breaks for your own sanity; I have really messed myself up several times by wallowing in frustration and anger past a point where I needed to lay off for a coupla days
(That was the Information War Part Six where I talk about the emotional costs of doing this, btw)
At the bottom line, enough folks have to make these decsions for themselves, we can't make them think right.
And while I think we do help with these discussions of critical thinking and propaganda, people have to want to listen, so there is no point making yourself a nut. do what you can when you can.
These things become like a mind virus for me. If I start thinking of them I am actually more stressed and distracted UNTIL I write them. They are like a living thing nagging me with "Are we there yet?" type questions that don't stop until I write them down. So writing them down will give me some relief.
The problem is that there is so much going on around us that it keeps inspiring these thoughts that I'd rather not be thinking about. Yet, me wanting a break doesn't mean reality will stop and take a break, so my mind doesn't let me either. :(
Oh my gosh we need people like you who can break down the insanity and remind us what true values really are! Your words fire like a zombie shield! It is exhausting though.. we need to make more self sustaining zombie shields...
hmmm
for me it's more of a Don Quixote complex, I think. If I don't raise the issues, then no one will
However, to be honest, I don't estimate I am having much effect.
Should I stop? Nope.
But it doesn't matter if I take a day off to rebuild my own strength...no one has manned battle stations due to what I write, and no one has been hung because they didn't heed my warnings
I'll keep at b/c maybe I will have an impact or wake up that one guy that gets shit done, or maybe that drip drip drip of Stevewisdom will seep in over time, LOL
I decided if I influence even one person or plant even one seed then it was not a waste of time. :)