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nothing is new, everything has happened before, if you think something new happened you're probably wrong
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the fact that you're here noticing thing means that thing happening didn't change anything, so worry less
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@apropos i'm talking about new bad things freakouts not new to me i enjoy this
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A: wow this is cool, I like this
B: that's old
A: it's new to me
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@sun @apropos at the core its all happened before. perhaps a different face. but still same stuff ad nauseum. often i find those who discover something new simply weren't paying attention.
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@apropos my example suffered from lack of enough specificity, I agree with you
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@sun works the same way
A: AHH MY LEG IS BROKEN
B: people get their legs broken all the time
A: MY BROKEN LEG IS HURTING ME RIGHT NOW
but, whether advice is helpful depends on what you're suffering from. I agree that historical perspective like this would help a lot if someone's OD'ing on political news. Here's a crazy thing that happened to early Americans:
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@apropos its an age thing when you start noticing the repeats and nothing ever changed then you see young people freak out about stuff and it just makes you groan. them being unhappy isn't wrong or bad but it's just like calm your ass down this isn't world altering like you're whipping up yourself into believing. it will happen again to you too in a while. this is why its good that old people eventually die because the bullshit just becomes unbearable
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@sun it's that *any* specific complaint, even if it's happened before, is still happening right now to the complainer. Inflation's been a lot worse before, but inflation still sucks.
I think perspective's good if your complaints are getting apocalyptic, if you're saying things like "with 80% of USD printed in the last four years we're all doomed society is going to completely collapse". No, Austria's nice now. Things can get better.
Perspective doesn't always work: in 2020 people recalled the Spanish Flu only to scaremonger off of it, not to observe that it was extremely serious and still didn't end the world.