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And then it's like, completely ignoring what would actually make sense for the human psyche, people love doing work, but we like to choose it! Literally, volunteer work exists already under this permenant competition, if we remove it there is going to be MORE people volunteering not less.

Then there's intrinsic motivation worth IS more than external in most cases blah blah blah- on top of that the insecurity of constant competition, and this constructed financial dimension STRESSES people out (which is also bad for functioning as well as patience and the calm that would make people act their best)- what even is laziness again?

At this point I can't truly completely blame anyone for anything they do when money's involved because money is everything except the social dimension, and the social dimension- CHARITY is not a reliable or powerful instrument, not under this much stress, not to cope with everything on top of being ignored.

I think I honestly believe everyone is a kind, just and hardworking person given the right circumstance, and at the moment you have to luck into that. Of course we try to build those circumstances for ourselves throughout our lives, but that's so hard too. Progress is all we can do, especially when there are so many not in the right state of mind to join in, but progress is good, and the truth is current right wing backlash (as horrible and torturous and really prevention measures will have to better next time) is a sign of how far we've come, something something dialectic antagonism except these ideals, this kindness is universal and all zeitgeists (spelling whp???) will always circle back to it.

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Whoops I had more to say- autism nor any other potential origin of ticks could immitate such perfect form! No he was not "throwing his heart out to the crowd", do you know what throwing your heart out to the crowd looks like????!!

A diagram for doubters.

If nothing proves anything at this point then you've still gotta ask the question why make an innocent gesture disappear?

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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Elon's nazi salute

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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The things we should all strive to remember.

Dear hopecore, hope punk,

I didn’t think I’d use this account like this, but I need to.

I’m scared. To be perfectly blunt, I’m scared.

The state of the world in the last few years, the last year and in the following years has me feeling like my heart will give out at any minute. My anxiety has always been extreme, but now it is so, so much worse and wrecking havoc on my body. Furthermore the guilt at being so anxious over things while not being directly impacted in horrendous ways like others, is something else.

My mother and guardian says everything will be alright. But I do not believe her. Not just because she wants me to be calm, but because everything points to things not being alright.

It’s been hard finding a therapist, not just because of some of my other issues, but I’m also unsure it will do any good. They can tell me how to feel, how to deal with the anxiety, and it might work for a while, but given past experiences these feelings will come back with a vengeance. I love being kind, it’s my nature. And I love being hopeful, but I’m not at all nowadays.

Please, tell me something good. Anything.Explain to me why you have hope. Tell me how. I’d appreciate it very much.

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Send you the link and a photo to an article about Emma Heffernans' stunt kangaroo.

yes i am unironically the "no one understands me i'm so sad and alone" sort of emo. what are you gonna do about it

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hobbyist writing is wild because on one hand, i want to casually write for fun, but on the other hand, i want someone in 200 years to angrily argue about the symbolism of my comma placement in a university lecture.

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Alterhumans, nonhumans, and creatures of all kinds:

Before you lies a beautiful fresh water creek. You hear the babbling water and can practically smell the freshness in it. Your mouth suddenly feels dry.

You are thirsty, I guarantee it. Go drink some water!!

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Crazy thing, something I guess I've always wondered on and off, is about the formative memories some POVs in books will seem to draw strength from, and then my thoughts will drift to the people I've encountered IRL that actually do exactly that. Like some sort of psychological patronus, or rather much like those emotional memory palaces (thread's still on artofmemory I think).

Seems legit, and ultimately I got around to wondering why I don't have 'a memory to draw strength from' so I stewed on it for a bit. -And I did turn up with several memories I'm extremely proud of but the thing is, I could find exactly zero with the absence of a free for all lotto on social mortification (I sure hope I'm the only one remembering), existential dread (nope no brain! Stop the pattern recognition!!!! Now!!!!) or inexplicable shame (what do you mean you're eating when several hundreds of thousands die of starvation on this very same globe????). -Oh that's why.

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reblog if you believe fanfics are as valid as books that were published and sold by authors who write as their main careers. I'm trying to prove a point

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Vpns am I right or am I right, but this is why normies need to be better at tech than governments because as mundane even utopian as "first world countries" seem it's all the same system anyways.

fucking australia’s trying to get everyone to link their government id to their social media accounts else you cant use them anymore, the actual fuck is wrong with this country

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See that study about young people up to 25 year olds has a confounding variable fjcking with the study, these are all the ages we force people to be in educational institutions for the most part. So IS it development???? Or is it school brain????

Of course consent is more than yes or no and needs proper understanding as well as equalised power dynamics BUT BRAIN DEVELOPMENT?????? I think you've tagged wrong. Also development is a very weird descriptor for analysing patterns and the age demographics with different patterns. If you have the study I can look at it probably.

Saw some straight-up inexperienced takes on children’s right to consent in the youth liberation tags.

“Children and adults are on the same level and kids can consent! I’m a minor and I can consent! Don’t infantilize me!”

I’m an educator who’s worked with both kids and adults, and I have a near-photographic memory which allows me to remember my early childhood years at a depth most people can’t. I know what I’m talking about, AND I still relate to kids because I remember in exquisite, painful detail what it was like to be one.

It’s not that kids CAN’T consent. Obviously kids can consent or refuse to consent to a lot of things, like saying “yes I want ice cream” or “no I don’t want a hug” or “yes I want the soles of my feet scratched for an hour straight and don’t you dare stop” (I was a weird kid). Any verbal child, with the exception of children who use echolalia to communicate, can give accurate verbal consent (“accurate” in this case meaning that when they say “yes,” it means “yes,” and that they don’t just say “yes” to everything). It stands to reason that they can technically say yes or no to life-altering things such as medical procedures, religions, jobs, or sexual activity… so the issue is not whether or not they are able to consent; the issue is whether or not they have enough lived experience, emotional development, and knowledge to make an informed decision to be responsibly allowed to consent to certain things which are high-risk.

Pedophilia is wrong — not because I think children are always innocent or “dumb blobs” — but because of the inherent developmental power imbalance between a child and an adult. Children are experiencing everything for the first time; adults have already experienced these things many times over and have the responsibility of teaching children what they know without putting them in danger. One does not allow a person who only has a driver’s license to pilot a rocket ship. Why? Because they will crash and kill themselves. Allowing a minor to have sex with an adult is like letting me fly a NASA shuttlecraft with no training.

But if I theoretically were to get trained by NASA for many years, I could perhaps avoid the whole passing out from the G-force routine, and successfully pilot that shuttlecraft. In the same way, children must learn to make small decisions over the course of their lives, until their brain has reached an ample stage of development to safely make decisions about situations which could potentially get them seriously hurt, traumatized, or killed. Abstract thinking, the last stage, takes a long time to fully develop: from the ages of 8 to 25, and even longer in some cases. Obviously bumping the age of consent to age 25 would be excessive because by the time someone is 25, they would have enough lived experience to make an informed decision, whether or not their prefrontal cortex is completely developed or not. This is why in the US, the age of consent ranges from 16–18 years of age; it is close enough to full brain development to keep people safe, and not too far along to maximize freedom of the individual. Laws aren’t perfect and some laws are stupid; but having an age of consent is more than reasonable.

Even though the abstract thinking stage ranges from eight to twenty-five, an eight-year-old and a twenty-five-year-old are NOT on the same level, even if the eight-hear-old is more experienced in one or two areas. Remember, someone who is eight has just begun to develop abstract thinking (or they may not have even started yet); someone who is twenty-five has already been developing abstract thinking for years. Should someone who just started learning chess who cannot beat a computer on easy mode be allowed by a league to compete against someone who’s played in that league for years in a national tournament? No, because that would be demoralizing for the inexperienced player, and unentertaining for the person in the league (unless they’re a bully). There is an inherent power imbalance.

Children need help to navigate complex emotions and situations because everything is new to them, and their brain is not sufficiently developed to handle emotions in a healthy way without guidance and support; this support decreases slightly every year a child is alive if parenting and teaching is consistent in their lives. Children who do not get good adult support often end up traumatized. Children rely on adults; not because of “ageism,” but because it is practical for their physical and emotional health.

This is also the reason why parents often make decisions for children and make them do things they do not want to do. Of course, many children would much rather play than go to the dentist because the dentist is scary and it hurts; but considering that not going to the dentist could result in tooth decay, even if a child does not want to go, a parent should still “force” their child to go to the dentist because the trauma of medical neglect should be avoided at all costs. So a parent should explain to their child that the dentist is there to help them be healthy and happy, to help ease a child’s fear. Most dental and medical procedures ensure that a child will have as much freedom as possible throughout their lives, by preventing them from contracting medical conditions which could potentially inhibit their freedom to do things now, or later in life. Now involuntary intersex surgery for the sake of making a child appear “normal” is another issue entirely, since this deals with a child’s identity. Unless the procedure is done to avoid a life-or-death situation or physical pain, it should not be done at all.

Another thing which absolutely should not be forced on a child is religion. If a child does not fully understand what a Jehovah’s Witness baptism entails, or if they do not know whether or not they will change their mind later due to a lack of experience and foresight, then they should not be presented with the “one-way ticket” option of baptism and effectual “marriage” to a god. This is because a child may not have the experience to recognize the Jehovah’s Witnesses as a predatory organization, especially if their parents have raised them in the cult. If they know that not serving Jehovah — according to their belief system — will get them killed in Armageddon, and that Armageddon could come at any time, including tomorrow, their decision to get baptized, which is a lifelong commitment, will be more motivated by fear than by a genuine desire to serve that god. A parent should not be allowed to punish their child in any way for refusing their religion, and religions should have age restrictions for those rituals which cannot be backed out of without penalty, once performed. This does not mean that children should not be allowed to explore different religions and choose for themselves; it only means that they should be allowed to do so with minimal risk to their mind or body, should they change their mind.

Jobs are something else which a parent should not be allowed to force or encourage a child to get, because play is essential for brain development and specifically for developing creativity. Work is often regarded as the opposite of play due to its exhausting and typically unpleasant nature, so working below a certain age will stunt a child’s growth and make it so they can do less in the long run. Now, if a child has a genuine passion they wish to pursue which most other children do not have, they should, within reason, be allowed to pursue it and potentially make money from it. However, the business side of things should be handled by the parents or another trustworthy adult, until the child is at a stage of development where they capable of handling finances, so that they may focus exclusively on their passion and furthering their education in other areas. However, the money the child earns from their work should not go to the parents; it should go to the child, potentially being placed in a savings account for their future.

In conclusion — I hate to use the “seatbelt or straight jacket analogy” abshsbshsjsjks — children are horribly disenfranchised, yes; but lowering the age of consent is not going to help them become less disenfranchised, compared to many other more feasible and less reckless rules which should be put in place by the law. Adults should be more restricted with what they can do with their children; legal restrictions should not necessarily be removed from what children can do, as many of these laws are reasonable from a scientific perspective.

What these self-proclaimed “xeno-satanists” are proposing can easily be classified as systemic child neglect (Also, side note: xeno-satanism is such a cool-sounding name and I was extremely disappointed to find out they wanted to abolish the age of consent, instead of, like, astral projecting to worship Satan on other planets. Ick. Also, it should be noted that many of these xeno-satanists are minors themselves, at the receiving end of pedophilic relationships and should not be harassed for being abused. Common sense. Don’t add gasoline to the already very hot fire.)

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Gonna make many second editions of this post but I'm feeling particularly doqn and despairing right now so I know I need to take action, say what I can of my peace no matter incomplete or thoughtlessness right now. So... youth liberation, there are plenty of adults in that space moving and shaking where history has already blocked kids off from, but what can young people do? As they are! Because action is the only way to regain your agency, your humanity and start to allow yourself to treat yourself more kindly.

DIY knowledge/competence & getting your foot in the door of "privacy"

Acting to be treated well

Manual dissociation

First there are a number of "open" universities for adults, but they're not closed to young people at this time so go wild. There are also some open source independant learning projects such as the Odin Project. I'd definitely recommend at least making yourself more tech savvy than the people in control of you, government included as it doesn't take a lot for regulations to enroach on young people's freedoms and you need to be personally competent enough to privately claim adulthood for yourself (if you want to retain access to taken for granted things like social media and I wouldn't be surprised if eventually the internet itself) sure nothing's rlly enforcable right now but enforcement will adapt eventually.

Be private with your justice or the world will fjck you up with it. Smile and nod and if you feel nauseus then meekly excuse yourself before you get yourself into the fight you can never win. Don't parrote or act on their fjcked up ethics and that's how you participate in making the world not like they think wpuld be best. Don't smile widely or with teeth, just quiet side of the lips curl and don't forget to push your cheeks against your eyes so it looks genuine.

For those who can, daydream to detach yourself when you need it, for those who somewhat can, practice it and hone your skills. For those who can't memorise your favourite media, sing yourself that song you know internally when you don't want to listen, recite poetry in assemblies or review the plot points of Shrek over and over again. Fjck if it's healthy, it's not, but it's called a coping mechanism for a reason. Hold on, hold out and you can afford to be exactly who want to be when you have more power.

Pls bring more advice to the table guys, my dream is to create a masterlist of tips to make things navigatable. Also I have a screenshot from MIT's open section feedback quiz with their competitors that I'll get around to uploading eventually.

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Stars yeah, or even just any time writing it down even in shorthand is no option. Might I recommend mnemonic techniques if you can remember one part, you might as well remember all of it, and the security has saved my sleep more than once.

my brain when i sit down to write: “i have no ideas.”

my brain when i’m trying to sleep: “here’s 50 plot twists and a perfect line of dialogue.”

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There are plenty of prompts laying about; you could even start by just exploring a POV and seeing what happens to them pantser style. If you're more explaining your story rather than writing your story at the beggining, that's fine too. You're in good company, the only thing it looks like you're missing is history.

should i write a fanfic? i’m honestly a pretty shit writer and i don’t have any ideas for what to write but i was thinking about it and i wanted opinions

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Does store bought but home cooked count? Fish sticks if otherwise, banana bread.

Hey guys be cool and normal but reblog this with the homemade meal that would get you the most hyped as a child. I need it for reasons.