I get this.
For me, there’s a third, red paint. It covers most of my body. The anger at the injustice helps to get me off my ass and out to protests.
Always some kind of silver lining.
I really like this framing. Personally, my health and general wellbeing is poor enough that I don’t end up at many protests (or do much useful, activism wise), but my rage at the injustice of everything is one of the things that keeps me alive on my lowest days. It sucks to be someone whose very existence is politicised, but at the very least, it means that merely existing is an act of rebellion against the system.
In light of this, my news consumption strategy is effectively a battle between the green guilt and the blue despair, except my goal is to balance the two so that neither of them get so large that they crowd out the red.
It’s all good, “from each according to their ability”. I’ll go to the protests, and you perform the acts of rebellion that you can do!
I just can’t really imagine the level of privilege it must take to be able to ignore the news. Like that’s a level of security and stability that I just can’t relate to.
Or insecurity…
When you struggle to put food on a table for your two kids as a single mother after you just been layed off… The current news are the last thing on your mind.
In those situations it remains incredibly important to glance at the news. Or you’ll slowly erode the possibility of food on the table over decades
Strong disagree.
I know right? Imagine shirking your civic responsibility as much as the average American
More the level of privilege it would take to benefit from ignoring the news.
Those of us without privilege can ignore the news initially, but it will bite us ever-harder when the effects start hitting.
Of course, some people, including some very unprivileged people, use this as a sign to become more isolated from information, in the hopes that not knowing about it means next time it won’t effect them.
… this usually has cascading negative consequences.
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