If all the secrets of adulthood, including sex, illness and death, are opened to children; cynicism, apathy or arrogance replace curiosity for them, short-circuiting education and moral development.
-- Neil Postman (The Disappearance of Childhood)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NeilPostman #Apathy #Arrogance #Cynicism #Education #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
Maybe a problem is not with me... It is with the people who think that making art is something simple,
like doing dishes, or wiping floors.
You see, when I sit at my desk, against my computer and say to myself that what I'm doing now is important,
I can really get the ball rolling.
Or I have to learn to work anyway, no matter how easy the society will perceive my work(?)
Just grinding and forcing myself
to WORK
to make DRAWINGS
to make art THINGS
#artblock #apathy #depression #subdepression
#Service #Customer #UK #Apathy #Protest #Vodafone #Mobile ???
"More than 75% of Britons say they are frustrated with poor service, and chatbot ‘helpers’ aren’t helping. Our consumer champion considers the problem – and how you can complain much more effectively"
👇 👇 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/apr/17/the-death-of-customer-service-why-has-it-become-so-so-bad?CMP=share_btn_url
One of the most used mobile apps in #Malaysia is a scammy messaging/call app by a company with a long history of sexual assault, fraud, anti-vax, and medical quackery.
Those who won't spare a shred of concern for the affairs of the world, seem to have lots of time and energy to attack those who do.
#defeatist #statusquo #antipathy #apathy #establishment
All too often, I've encountered people who cannot tolerate the very existence of entire species or even kingdoms of living beings.
But you know what's worse? Everyone else who tolerates and excuses such behavior.
#America was warned. All summer. #Americans are just that fucking stupid. They only pay attention to sports and video games, so they don't know how anything works. They weren't afraid of electing the dumbest, most incapable people alive bc they don't care & don't remember last time bc #apathy #privilege #selfishassholes and #dumbasarock
I worked my ass off to prevent this total clusterfuck that's killing people horribly.
#fuckeveryonewhodidnotvote
lebad – Goner
#Alternative #apathy #garbage #postpunk #postrock #Vancouver
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://lebad.bandcamp.com/album/goner
There's been a pattern of me posting something critical of civilization and someone getting *really* mad and coming for me in replies. I was pondering this the past couple of days after the latest iteration of this phenomenon.
I came to the conclusion that the folks doing this are *terrified* and reacting like a wild creature that's backed into a corner. Lashing out in anger as a form of defense against the possibility that the Leviathan they've been embedded in since birth is actually a force for their destruction wrapped in a shiny package.
I was discussing this with my eldest, a very perceptive spawn of mine and he said it's existential dread on the level of eldritch horror. I can't say he's wrong.
The problem is, how can we have a discussion about this with people in feral wounded animal mode? It's one of the reasons I've come to the conclusion that we're not going to be able to walk away like the inmates of prior civilizations were able to do. We're going to have to ride the falling giant to its inevitable end and forage off its rotting corpse in the aftermath.
This makes me really melancholy. But then I remember back to when I was assimilating all the anti-civ stuff I was reading about a decade and a half ago, and how it made me feel like I was losing it for a while until I found a balance in my head, and I guess I can't fault folks for reacting like this. I've long lived on the knife edge of paradox of various kinds and am no stranger to navigating the cognitive dissonance that occurs while figuring out how to fit it into my worldview. Most folks just aren't, and can't, and we'll just have to sink or swim when the time comes.
The fundamental weakness of authoritarians: they cannot win without the compliance and disengagement of others. And what is given can be withdrawn. #Authoritarian #Compliance #Apathy
BDG feature: Why Bother? Versus Unbothered -- Margaret Meloni examines how our Buddhist practice can help us navigate a path of resilience and equanimity amid uncertainty and impermanence
🔗 Read here: https://tinyurl.com/3rajk58w
#Buddhism #BuddhistPractice #Hope #Equanimity #Resilience #Acceptance #Apathy #Compassion #Impermanence
The Selfish Habit of Yelling on Phones
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When some people are away it feels pleasurable. The reason for which it feels pleasant is that they are loud. They will use the phone and have a full conversation when a three sentence e-mail will be enough. They will posture and show off rather than consider that not everyone in the open plan office needs to hear them pontificate for a quarter of an hour or more.
During the pandemic I noticed that people like to yell on their phones, rather than speak quietly. They speak to be clear, which is commendable, but they speak with such loudness that you hear it next door. You might think "So what? That's apartment life" but that is precisely the point. If everyone yells on their phones then privacy is dead.
Privacy is not just about people listening to our conversations or what we are doing. Privacy is the intimacy of silence. If children play and behave in a noisy manner, if music festivals play their music too loud, if people yell rather than converse on their phones, then the intimacy of silence is lost, for the imposition of noise pollution.
Noise pollution enocourages me to go out. I went out partially because I thought, "Since A is home and he's a phone using extrovert I will hear loud speaking on the phone so I might as well be out." I was out until a few minutes ago, and within seconds I heard someone speaking loudly on a phone and thought "when this person is around I should flee."
The pandemic made me sensitive to noise pollution, especially construction works, and people speaking loudly, and selfishly. The problem is that I am a single person who doesn't listen to music, and when I do listen to things it's usually podcasts, or tv shows, via earphones. I rarely speak, rarely yell, rarely speak on the phone, so I hear noise pollution, because I make little of my own.
For years now I have planned my walks around fleeing noise pollution. I know that at a certain time of day certain types of people are noisy, so I flee. The alternative is the fan I use for white noise. It's running now.
The irony is that I was sitting in the car waiting for it to get to eighty percent for half an hour or more, and I got home and thought "I should have waited until it reached one hundred percent.
In the end what I would like is mobile phones that don't encourage people to speak loudly, and buildings that are sound proofed against male voices. They're soundproofed against shower noises, toilet flushes and more, but not the human male voice. This should be the next step.
Limiting Behaviors and Traits
#Apathy #Blame #Cheating #Communication #Laziness #Negativity #PeoplePleasing #Perfectionism #SelfDoubt #VictimMentality
Winning Daily
Why Are So Many Apathetic About Trump’s Actions Here and Overseas? 🤔🌍
In this clip from my LIVE Sharpe Way show, I discuss why so many Americans are unhappy and disengaged. Men are checking out—avoiding relationships and even jobs. Women are struggling to find stable partners or fulfilling careers. With people lacking relationships, careers, and goals, they are too focused on their own struggles to care about Trump’s actions or foreign policy issues.
"The affairs of the world have nothing to do with me", said the billions of people who make up the world.
🍀🤔 Ah yes, the Irish Famine: a delightful cocktail of laissez-faire economics and a dash of imperial neglect—because who needs food when you've got "beliefs" to keep you warm? Thank you, New Yorker, for reminding us that market forces and #apathy make for timeless tragedies. 📉🥔
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review #IrishFamine #LaissezFaire #EconomicHistory #MarketForces #TimelessTragedy #HackerNews #ngated
There are thousands if not millions of USAians shrugging their shoulders and offering up platitudes about how protesting only causes troubles, that people especially legal immigrants should keep their heads down, pay their bills, and not worry about their home country because they’re here now for which they should be grateful.
#apathy will destroy us. B/c I know people saying this who feel empathy towards fellow immigrants. #mahmoudkhalil
‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten | Long Covid | The Guardian (March 2, 2025)
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#Covid #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #Apathy #Forgotten
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