If everything is political, how do you handle situations and outcomes beyond your control?
2026-06-17 03:04 UTC
Replies (8)
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@MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2026-06-17 03:43
I suffer and go hungry. I struggle and fail to find an income that will allow me to be comfortable. Everything outside of that is a screaming blur that sometimes steals the bread from my mouth.
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@luthis@lemmy.nz 2026-06-17 04:58
Play video games. I can make the world be however I like in video games.
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@Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2026-06-17 06:33
Poorly.
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@stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml 2026-06-17 07:47
Good questions. I’d like to refer to the answer from panda_abyss. It’s called “stoic philosophy” or “stoicism”, and it’s a mighty tool, if you know how to handle it. Over the years it actually helped me with anxiety/panic and depression. To me, it was even more effective than therapy, because following stoic principles actually feels like some sort of low-level-everyday-therapy. So if you struggle with overwhelming emotions about where the world is headed, I’d recommend giving this a read or two.
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@Sickos@hexbear.net 2026-06-17 09:27
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-06-17 12:18
Recognize that class struggle is real, and therefore the conquest of power by the working classes is necessary. This requires educating the working classes on political theory, history, and practice. It also requires agitating, being at the front line of struggle, and coherently leading the working classes to higher levels of political awareness in an all-sided struggle. It also requires organizing, forming a revolutionary party, a media apparatus to spread ideas, forming and improving worker and tenant unions, and more.
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@TheRiskiestBiscuit@reddthat.com 2026-06-17 13:15
“The personal, as every one’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, TAKE IT PERSONALLY. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here—it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it PERSONAL. Do as much damage as you can. GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS. That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference, the ONLY difference in their eyes, between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that IT’S NOTHING PERSONAL. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.” -Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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@frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 2026-06-17 15:05
how do you handle situations and outcomes beyond your control? obviously if they’re situations that I’m not personally handling, then I do not handle them. Simple.