Same, I have a similar conundrum. Everytime I go longer than a few days without checking US news some unspeakable shit goes down. Like a dictator getting kidnapped.
The constant battle between wanting to stay informed and the urge to live peacefully as an off-grid mountain man lol
Something I think we don't talk about too much that has additionally fallen to the throes of Late Stage Capitalism is the dissolution of nuclear and extended families, as well as the normalcy of shared households.
Before, the everyday tasks of any one domicile could be reasonably expected to be split up amongst its cohorts. Kids do their chores, dad mows the lawn, mom does the wash, nana does the cooking, auntie takes the kids to school/shopping, or your housemates help out, etc etc.
But most of this generation is living in isolated pods, single-serving everything. You are solely responsible for the cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, studying, working, running to the bank, filing taxes, trip planning, car maintenance, home repairs, and your godddamn mental health. Of course it's too much work for just one person, but it's become so normalized by now that people hardly even notice there's a problem, much less any viable solution to it. Instead, we all resign ourselves to being "tired all the time", physically and emotionally, and not knowing why.
Thanks, that mnemonic device will help since I always seem to forget between them, SkyNews, and The Telegraph which one is the sketchiest source of info lol
This is the most pretentious, my-shit-doesn't-stink reply I've seen outside of an .ml instance lol
Touch grass.