Something I’d ask people to consider, here and everywhere, is that if someone isn’t perceptibly responding to a situation with the grief or anger or rage you think is appropriate, it doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t care.
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@adamgreenfield Maybe they've chosen that something doesn't really matter, for saving health and energy. Perhaps they see the situation from another point of view. Who knows.
@adamgreenfield right. i don't have the extra mental health to doomscroll and whine 24/7 and quiet frankly i think y'all have it neither.
@adamgreenfield agree but also want to flag up nobody should judge whatever people are doing that is helping them to cope .... running a community project is a constant lurch from one crisis to another and many rural services have collapsed completely.. honestly #kdrama and #BTS have been essential to my sanity over the last couple of years.
@stuffjolikes Anyone who’d try to tell someone else what they should or should not be doing to manage the sensation of being alive in this moment is, on some level, really sitting in judgment of themselves.
@adamgreenfield What prompted this thought? (Addressed a learned society in the new year and tried not to make this assumption -
https://www.susiarnott.co.uk/home/the-climate-emergency/whats-science-outreach-for/ )
Not a subtweet, btw – just an observation about an often hard-won equanimity, and how it flies in the face of so many of the expectations we have of performative expression and the presentation of self. We used to say “Still waters run deep,” and though I haven’t heard that in a long time it may well yet be that way for some among us.
@adamgreenfield What prompted this thought? (Addressed learned society in the new year and likewise tried not to assume - https://www.susiarnott.co.uk/home/the-climate-emergency/whats-science-outreach-for/ )
@SusiArnott I’m not sure it’s wise to discuss here, tbh. Social media doesn’t lend itself to equanimity, even social media of this odd-duck variety.
