• @pearable@lemmy.ml
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    87 months ago

    Sorta, this kind of thinking can only take you so far before the dissonance destroys your mental health.

    Additionally, not everyone believes that just your mental state is yours to control. Many folks justify their own wealth by believing that they deserve everything they have and that people who have less by extension deserve their poverty.

    • @0xD@infosec.pub
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      17 months ago

      Not sure why there should be any dissonance.

      It’s not about deserving anything and it’s not about control. It’s not about justification. Quite the opposite. There are many societal and cultural expectations for people to behave a certain way, for example, and I think that many of these lead to problems for people because they cannot or don’t want to meet them.

      You cannot change anything about society by yourself. You cannot change the system by yourself. But you can change your relationship to it and break free from its chains and realize the power you actually have in the situation. Ruminating about how bad everything is keeps you blind to it.