by Caitlin Johnstone,Caitlin Johnstone:
There’s a viraltweetgoing around that says it’s “hard to find the balance between educating yourself on current events and not making yourself so indescribably sad that you can’t properly function.”
It’s a relatable statement, but it’s based on an incorrect understanding.
The key isn’t finding a balance between blissful ignorance and painful awareness, it’s learning to find happiness in sources that don’t depend on the delusional belief that everything is fine.
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It’s very possible to be both happy and well-informed. We live in an explosively beautiful universe, and getting to experience anything at all is amazing. The fact that our world is plagued by human butchery and degradation does not cancel out the majesty of a bird in the sky, or the ecstasy of the wind upon your skin.
It is true that we live in a civilization of unfathomable cruelty. It is true that our biosphere is being strangled while human and non-human beings are subjected to horrific abuses in a society which elevates the worst art, the worst values, and the worst people to the highest levels of prominence.
It is also true that getting to live even a single moment on this astonishing blue planet is a gift worthy of immense joy and gratitude.
These things are both fully true at the same time. They do not negate each other.
Don’t find your happiness in the belief that everything is okay, because everything is not okay. If you spend your life squirming around trying to avert your gaze from the truth and psychologically compartmentalizing away from reality, you will never know actual happiness.
Source: SGT Report
