Yes but no. Motives matter.

Didn’t Americans really say no expensive gas?

The media is paid to ignore it. And people are too numb to react. Everyone is desensitized to everything that would have enraged them had it been announced all of a sudden. It’s like that poison conditioning. Taking little amounts of poison each time, with apparently no effect. But it’s destroying us on the inside.

Thanks. Now I know who to redirect the internal shouts at.

Apparently nothing anymore.

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So like Russia and Assad?

Of course. Maybe they gave the dangerous toy to the buffoon they would bet was stupid enough to use it.

The world has become numb enough that it will only ever condemn atrocities or at best shake a fist at them. Trump’s horde has proved that you can get away with anything as long as you brazenly ignore common sense and basic human decency.

I’ve been going to therapy. I think I’m about to stop though. It’s not really doing much good because I’m too stuck in my head. I don’t like the options I seem to have in life.

I think I’m close to submitting to an “it’s too late to do anything meaningful” conclusion.

Therapy helped me put things in a more logical perspective, but it’s not going to help with some “fundamental” things that are necessary to fix things even within logic, let alone what I now know that I ideally want.

I can’t express how much I appreciate you taking the time to write that.

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It is burnout (too). I’ve been experiencing a lot of instability which got worse in the past few years. Trauma as well.

One or two things that could have gone okay and make most things bearable, if not fixable, took terrible turns and kinda broke me mentally.

I blame only myself though, ultimately, because a little foresight and mental strength could have spared me a lot of trouble.

Yes. I do have to go back to reading stoics. There was a time I myself recommended it to others. Thank you. I wish it was the imposter syndrome.

Some things are supposed to fall on me. I should be able to handle some things as a person. Yet I feel like a burden on everyone and everything. This is not about my job. Everything else is shit. And I’m worried it’s affecting my job a little.

Actually it’s the best environment I’ve been in. It’s not directly about work. I am my problem.

I think I have this kind of job, and yet I want everything to just stop. Everything. And I am not autistic nor have ADHD. And I can’t even ask anyone for help, because I am not supposed to. I did try asking for help. I was either ignored or was told that I shouldn’t ask for help.

“Ironically,” it’s a picture I used as a profile pic on my real life accounts.

It is, but still.

For a people who yell “family values,” they sure are into other people’s genitals.

Oh, that’s a good one. I’m very far from being tech savvy myself, so I gradually tried to remind myself people can not care enough about this stuff to learn even some basic terminology or have other, more urgent concerns. A lot of the service industry depends on this kind of unfamiliarity, I guess.