HyperNormalisation

What's the point of doing anything? People in Britain and America now began to turn away from politics. > The effect of the Iraq war had been very powerful. > Not only did millions of people feel that they had been lied to over the weapons of mass destruction, but there was a deeper feeling - that whatever they did or said had no effect. > That despite the mass protests, and the fears and the warnings -the war had happened anyway. The best case scenario is I'm just a number, a number of a universe of 8.000.000.000 numbers. The blissful moment are few and far between, lasting instances of time, not in a timeline per se, but as a dot in one of the infinite axes that happen at the same time. There's even nothing to get from hedonism anymore. The search of pleasure as a coping mechanism, just as an XVIII century coal deposit, has been depleted. Peak pleasure has long been outlasted and new sources cannot be processed, I would call this a catalyst for a mental sepsis. Being a fraud is a certainty, living a life where a mask is the only way I can get through. Passions were reasons of hope, goals were the main driving force in the search of fulfillment. But the fact is, when you try and try again, when you change your point of view and the way you face challenges and the results are nothing but failures, why would anybody not give up? I don't know about you, but I can tell you that, since I have memories, I've tried and committed to a myriad of activities, never even getting close to the level of someone who had spent as many time as I did. Why try? The outcome seems fixed. The constant is change. However we end up in a different, but quivalent place. Battles are to be lost, how many more are remaining is the real question. The Soviet Union became instead a society where no-one believed in anything or had any vision of the future. Those who ran the Soviet Union had believed that they could plan and manage a new kind of socialist society. But they had discovered that it was impossible to control and predict everything and the plan had run out of control. But rather than reveal this, the technocrats began to pretend that everything was still going according to plan. And what emerged instead was a fake version of the society. The Soviet Union became a society where everyone knew that what their leaders said was not real because they could see with their own eyes that the economy was falling apart. But everybody had to play along and pretend that it WAS real because no-one could imagine any alternative. One Soviet writer called it "hypernormalisation". You were so much a part of the system that it was impossible to see beyond it. The fakeness was hypernormal I admire people, I try to understand everybody, but as anything else, I keep failing at it. I feel a mild joy when seeing other people being happy, usually sharing their excitement with the people they appreciate the most and vice versa, I guess that's what empathy is. Maybe the last remaining proof of humanity in a solipsistic era. Please, I beg you to care for people, try to understand them, give the benefit of the doubt, act in good faith, if something goes wrong assume it as a faux pas. I'm not saying that you blatantly let people abuse and take advantage from you, but to, at least, not being predisposed to that way of thinking. Be open, but critical, you are more than capable to do both. And as a last remark, please take care of yourself.