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The wise piece of insight I got today was this: Sometimes, there are things that frustrate you and that you can't do anything about and not being able to do anything about them bothers you. And that's okay.
I get it intellectually, but emotionally? I think this is a big project. To that end, here's a list of things that suck and that bum me out (not ranked, some big, some small) but that I can't do anything about:
What about you?
I get it intellectually, but emotionally? I think this is a big project. To that end, here's a list of things that suck and that bum me out (not ranked, some big, some small) but that I can't do anything about:
- globalization
- plastic
- climate change
- species loss
- homogenization of cultures
- the patriarchy
- racism-sexism-classism-etc
- general jackassery
- my friends being sad
- the fact that days are limited to 24 hours
- my economics class
- the ongoing lack of teleportation
- being overlooked or forgotten
- people being mean
- mangos in the US (so disappointing!)
- traffic
- subway delays
- and so many more...
What about you?
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Date: 2008-02-11 01:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-11 01:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-11 01:19 am (UTC)Of course, if we're going to simply go the tautological route of saying "this is a thing that sucks because my definition of it includes sucktasticness." I can go off and have some other discussion. :-)
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Date: 2008-02-11 01:27 am (UTC)I don't get why I should like the concept if the practice sucks. There may be good aspects to globalization, but even the concept has not sold me. How is the uniformification of the world a benefit to anyone? I just don't see it.
That said, the reason I made this post is that I am actually and in real terms very upset about these things. So I'm not going to continue this conversation, which you seem to want to be intellectual but is, for me, emotional.
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Date: 2008-02-11 04:00 am (UTC)There is an Invader Zim episode concerning this...
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Date: 2008-02-11 01:35 am (UTC)I don't pronounce it eh-ko-nom-ics. I like to say EEEEK!-o-nom-ics.
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Date: 2008-02-11 01:45 am (UTC)- lack of clue or realism due to unwillingness to shed emotional or ego response/investiture
- the creation of dumb processes to solve problems, that don't actually solve those problems
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Date: 2008-02-11 01:51 am (UTC)(Yeah, that doesn't compare with most of yours, but still. Bleah.)
besides many of the things you've mentioned...
Date: 2008-02-11 02:19 am (UTC)The Republican party.
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Date: 2008-02-11 04:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-11 06:42 am (UTC)-The price of organic food.
-The price of, oh hell, just about everything that isn't (mostly) imported crap.
-Popular people who are really asshats, but no one seems to want to admit it, so they stay popular instead of being dismissed as asshats.
-My mother in law.
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Date: 2008-02-11 01:57 pm (UTC)The status of Puerto Rico
The status of just about all the indigenous people in the americas
Everything about the way food is done in the world.
The historical moment when the car industry crushed the railroad industry.
The cost of housing
The cost of education
I'll see your patriarchy and raise you gender inequity
I'll also see your globilization-as-colonialism and raise you colonialism
The embargo on Cuba
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Date: 2008-02-11 02:49 pm (UTC)The sad feral dogs in Xela
That corporations have many of the same rights as people
That our current health system ensures people live in fear of payments when they get sick
Leaf-blowers
Jingoism
My things
Date: 2008-02-11 03:19 pm (UTC)2. Cold weather that doesn't seem to quit
3. Inability to figure out what I want in a timely fashion
4. Sad gym visit
5. The Republican party
6. The fact that the TV producers suck so hard that there may be no new episodes of shows I like until next year.
7. Corporatization
8. Lack of time management
9. Stress
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