Twilight1234567 t1_j9fylze wrote on February 21, 2023 at 5:21 PM

How do you mentally stay sane while seeing so much pain and destruction in the world??

npr OP t1_j9g61qw wrote on February 21, 2023 at 6:08 PM

Everywhere I go, I find stories that give me hope. In Senegal, these hip hop artists talked about giving "young people weapons to combat the system, to combat poverty." At the UN climate summit in Glasgow, a young Samoan activist named Breanna Fruean taught me the refrain, "We are not drowning; we're fighting." The artist Taylor Mac once told me that things are cyclical, but you can always find people fighting to make the world better. Those are the people I look for in my reporting.

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GroovyJungleJuice t1_j9gqkay wrote on February 21, 2023 at 9:28 PM

Love hearing Christians advocate against being Christlike. Sad that you are in the majority of American Christians who would not lift a finger to help someone in need

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Doenerwetter t1_j9iayj1 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 4:09 AM

You're overcomplicating it. The government of any country is the sum total of the will of the people that make up the country. If your will isn't being represented by the actions of the country you're in, it probably means most people think differently from you.

Government is also never a static thing, and to cling to that idea because you're butthurt about most people wanting to help other people out is delusional.

Most people in the US struggle daily for survival, and as the power shifts towards those people again and away from the oligarchs, the use of collective power will naturally shift towards forms of aid to other people, and away from robbing them blind for the benefit of the few. That's why these stories resonate with most of us, and make you uncomfortable.