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elainemorisi · 2 years

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a) if you would like to indulge in probably overblown panic about world events, do I have the spot on the internet for you

b) are people like, actually commonly incapable of seeing somebody say something they (observer) believes, to a somewhat informed degree, to be probably just catastrophizing and like... dismissing it?

#a. is about yesterday's post here and the answer is r/collapse #(do not fucking go to r/collapse if you are not vv confident in your ability to not doomscroll or panic)#(I appreciate its existence though largely because I think it's a good thing to have an outlet for that impulse!#ONE outlet; one easily-cordoned-off outlet)#b is not at all about that one I'm just being an ass and putting it in the same post #b is about *twitter's* post(s) yesterday #I continue to be boggled by the number of otherwise fairly reasonable tweeps #who are just SO MAD at the covid catastrophizers #SO SO MAD #do I also think many of those folks are overblowing a lot of what they say? sure. also not overblowing some #but the SO MAD reaction just keeps happening and it's like... extremely hard not to interpret it as the lady protesting too much ykwim #and the two things relate because just. like.#what ARE people (generally. but I mean like. individuals. how does general-your individual brain work) capable and incapable of #as far as like... sitting with horror goes #because best I got is catastrophizing doesn't tend to make me mad because it doesn't upset me #because things of that rhetorical shape like... they do upset me ofc horror is horrifying #but I think I'm maybe missing a layer or a mode of upset?#because it is very easy (and horrifying!) to accept that the true ones are in fact true #and because I believe the stuff I think is overblown is overblown... it just totally ceases to be the same sort of thing at all?#and like... if you believe it's bullshit. where is the SO MAD coming from #idk these are very sincere questions I am probably explaining very imperfectly #the horror-admission-question has been one my whole life I promise #and I don't mean it as a virtue to be clear #it also makes it pretty fucking easy to say 'yup. that's bad. not gonna bother me though'#but it's not just a vice. because like. things are in fact bad. feeling bad about that doesn't make them not exist. I really ??

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