Yes: you aren't alone. My son admonishes me for keeping in touch with International politics and events and the consequent depression it leaves me with.
" Doom-scrolling" he calls it. This is exacerbated by knowing we the public are utterly impotent and can do nothing.
Tell the truth or even repeat the news without the establishment gloss online and you are censored.
March against war and mass murder and you are collectively " terrorist supporters": thats if a march of hundreds of thousands actually gets noted in the media.
Even if you pine for democratic change our politicians are all pre-vetted by establishment and media. Look what they did to the Labour party. What used to at least pass for an "opposition" is now in power and what do we have? A glib Ukraine war-funding Zionist genocide supporting security state apparatchik in charge in Downing street: he's their man not ours and we all know it because no opposition is in fact allowed on these matters.
-The problem is systemic and infects the entire political body.
In these circumstances giving in to a sense of despair & hopelessness is entirely understandable: this is not a new thing. Suffering from "the sorrow of the world" induces what used to be classed as one of the old Christian " seven deadly sins": in fact "the most troublesome of all" that of "Accidie". This is worth recalling if only to remind ourselves that many have despaired the state of the world in the past and it's human-induced horrors..but we are still here and the majority of people aside from the powerful are still on the side of a genuine humanity.
-There is no remedy because this is caused by externalities but what you already clearly know helps it be bearable: physical and mental activity in other directions. Mine presently is walking and gardening but I hate to think what the oncoming winter will bring.
Best. K
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