is it actually worth reading anything cause it kinda just feels like a cognitohazard to make you give up on any hope for a better future

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    i mean i get this impression where it feels like people get really invested in this stuff as a sort of pseudo-religion to cope about how awful the world is but idk i’m kinda stupid

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      it’s like religion but based on reality and facts

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        from an outsider perspective it’s hard not to feel like that though.

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      marx said “if there is one thing i know, its that i am not a marxist” and iirc it was refering to a phenomenon somewhat like this.

      i don’t believe in any large positive change within my lifetime, so i instead focus on what makes me happy.

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        yeah that’s very fair. I guess its hard to feel enthused by what seems like a community of very autistic larpers mostly lol