Really puts into perspective how much humanity have evolved.
When ever I wonder about something, I can just conjure it and have it in the palm of my hand.
Galaxies, star systems, the map of the entire world, history, geopolitics, real time events from across the world.
I mean, yes, bad things still happen in the world, but its just so… amazing, intruguing, awesome, and also absurd how we can just know almost anything and everything if we are willing to search for the topic.
The world seems bigger, and ourselves seem smaller.
What the fuck is life? Its so… strange…
When I was a kid, space felt so magnificient.
But now I’m dealing with depression, and the universe feels kinda existential.
I look at humanity and felt so amazed at the cooperation that built civillizations.
But simultaneously see the hatred between groups of people, and it feels depressing.
Edit: I don’t know what this post is supposed to be, kinda just wanna talk into the void of the internet, share some thoughts. I don’t have friends to talk to, wanna talk to some Lemmy strangers I guess… 👀
I’m kinda trying to get back to how it was in the past a bit.
Realize that life happens outside of the internet, and I don’t need to read a stream of news from the other end of the world that I can’t do anything about and don’t affect me yet.
I read actual news sites once a week only these days. Sometimes news stories cross my Mastodon feed that seem relevant to me, but most times I just pass them over.
I can’t change the way chucklefucks in the USA behave, for example, and reading about them shooting themselves in the foot so often they think walking around and leaving bloody footprints is normal is not something that I can change, nor do I need to know it. Same for most countries that are neither my country of residence nor my country of citizenship.
So I ignore it. Because it’s literally irrelevant to me, my knowledge or lack thereof will change nothing, but constantly hearing doom & gloom stories has a measurable negative impact on my sanity.