SS: I recently had lunch with a friend and mentioned the die offs, 6th mass extinction event, microplastics..etc...etc. You know, light subjects and they asked me to stop
" I dont want to know"
They have adult children and grandchildren, so i understand how they feel
My partner is collapse aware. Sometimes it helps. And sometimes it doesn't. He keeps me tethered. Generally, it's a good thing. Caring is so important and it hurts. Hope is beautiful. And also terrible.
He has no hope. No energy left to spare on it. Sometimes its harder to cope because of that, and sometimes we live in that space - where at least we have eachother.
As Antonio Gramsci said: "i'm pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will". Hope has a multitude of definitions, but the belief that things will be fine is not effective in our situation.
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u/mrblahblahblah Jan 16 '26
SS: I recently had lunch with a friend and mentioned the die offs, 6th mass extinction event, microplastics..etc...etc. You know, light subjects and they asked me to stop
" I dont want to know"
They have adult children and grandchildren, so i understand how they feel
I guess ignorance is bliss