I hope fatalism is the right word for it. I guess it could be called defeatism, acceptance, arguments from nature whatever.
Hoo boy I hope this doesn’t come across as unintelligible ranting but it’s a huge pet peeve of mine and I hardly ever see it addressed.
Nothing is more anti-life, anti-humanity and anti progress than accepting ‘the way things are’.
This might be a hot take and might even be considered by most to be an unhealthy opinion, but accepting things ‘you can’t change’ is defeatist to me, because how do you even know you can’t change something? You’re not god, you don’t know for sure. There are so many things we thought were an unchangable fact of life that did, in fact, get changed. Yes I understand that stressing about something that doesn’t have an immediate solution right now is not going to do your mental health any favors, but it doesn’t mean solutions aren’t worth pursuing. This type of nihilist fatalism isn’t just depressing, it’s dangerous. It’s the type of attitude that gets millions killed by desease because illness is just a part of life so why eliminate polio?
Like why even bother inventing shoes if foot pain is inevitable, right? Pathetic. Invent shoes, you dweeb. Nothing sadder than seeing this species resign itself to premature extinction.
You’re essentially correct but it’s hard to be optimistic when the vast majority of the world is in an ideological stupor, if the current status quo continues without any extremely dramatic shocks I think there will be any global change in consciousness before climate change really hits, the best we can hope for is for climate change to not be as catastrophic as often predicted.
Talking to people around me about this shit feels like this meme template over and over again, people generally agree with me but on the last step their brain just short circuits.
The thing is I am also pessimistic, I’m also in a stupor a lot of the time just trying to survive as a neurodivergent bag of trauma. I fully understand why everyone’s tired and it’s valid. I’m tired too. Burnout is real and it’s not something anyone should force themselves to brute force.
The thing that bothers me more is that people will sneer at the idea of anyone, anywhere, even trying to find a solution. The idea that even wanting something better is some sort of childish delusion that people should be reprimanded for even suggesting. The kind of people who if given a button that would end all suffering, would choose not to because “it isn’t natural”.
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