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Adrianna TanRemember the thing people used to say about how seeing the world will broaden your mind?
I think it just makes you heartbroken about politics in more than one place.
i'm specifically thinking about 'multiple places i love have also taken a hard right turn', and less about 'other places have suffering too'
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Dev@skinnylatte Mood :(
scott f@skinnylatte yup. After hiking in a lovely park in Victoria, I ended up in a Wikipedia revert war with British Columbians with preposterous excuses for not honoring the official renaming of the park to its Indigenous name.
technicat@skinnylatte it's disappointing when all people get out of it is "see, they do it too!" instead of as a wake-up call
RamenCatholic š¢š@skinnylatte yup, I grew up Poor AF by American standards during the Reagan-era. Brief homelessness, eating from the food shelves, and no health insurance.
In my mid-teens (after we achieved middle-class-hood), my family went to Thailand to adopt a kid with multiple disabilities - and I saw true poverty for the first time.
(And evidence of neglect & abuse on a level that made my Shitty Childhood Syndrome look like barely anything.)
I still think about that a lot, decades later.
ferricoxide@skinnylatte
Broadened minds tend to be better able to see and take in the tragedies.
Broadened minds tend to be better able to see and take in the tragedies.
Risotto Bias@skinnylatte I think of it like... you're browsing several different gardens.
some are better kept than others, obviously.
the point is to copy-cat the pieces you love,
and to avoid the disasters you notice in other gardens.
obviously... the grass is always greener on the other side, and your garden setup might not support every kind of plant at another far away climate, but...
Gaelan Steele@skinnylatte mooooood.
WhichOne'sPink š«š®@skinnylatte Hmm...every time I travel, I'm struck by how backward and conservative Australia is.
Currently in Singapore
Currently in Singapore
BeeCycling@skinnylatte I remember blogging about this once, about how the internet and social media makes the whole world our neighbourhood and that there are no distant events any more. Time was you read about a disaster in a far off land and maybe saw a grainy black and white picture in the paper. Now we see devastation in full colour HD, and see video of people talking about losing their homes and families. It reminds us we're all neighbours, which is good, but stressful.