As I was reading The Subtle Art this morning in a section on Victimhood Chic on how it's so chic now to be offended by every little thing and how the media feeds this, I was agreeing but wondering what I was going to share in my post here.
Then Mark gave this quote from Tim Kreider and I suddenly remembered why I started reading a book about not giving a fuck in the first place! I have been outraged ever since Trump got elected, and that outrage has grown with every move he and the GOP has made to end environmental, social, economic and other protections, people he has placed in charge of government departments who oppose what those very departments do, etc, etc. I have been outraged that calling and writing our elected officials clearly no longer has an impact, as they only listen to, and look out for the interests of those who line their pockets with money. And I realized that my outrage was devouring me from the inside out. That this situation didn't just happen overnight, Trump and the current crop of Congress are symptoms of things that have been growing for decades (Look to the Lewis Powell memorandum to the US Chamber of Commerce in 1971 as well as the end of the Fairness Doctrine in media in the 80's for a couple major ingredients of this current situation) I really can't do anything about that but vote. Was I going to let it continue to devour me? That's what made me turn to this book, to find a way, not to be indifferent about what is happening, I don't want that. But to at least not give so many fucks about it that I let it control my life and stop me from moving forward. For that I am very grateful that I found The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, it's helping.
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