I Am Begging You to Stop Caring

[Sincerity]

In western society, we significantly lost the ability to not care and not feed the trolls. To such a big extent the internet is now a toxic landscape of the leeches and the leeched from. Beyond the internet, a perfect example is the US having Trump elected in 2016 who exploited the negative media coverage expertly.

My lesson from this is to really focus more on laughing at what currently surrounds us. Which requires a change in perspective and some detachment. There is now so much bullshit to laugh at we could all die from lack of breath, so let's do laugh and not satisfy the attentions thieves with the holy resource of attention. Giving it to the Trumps, the Musks, the Tates, corporate marketing, Destiny drama, forum trolls, attention whores in your personal life… It's killing you.

Edited February 22 by Sincerity

[Rafael Thundercat]

10 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

In western society, we significantly lost the ability to not care and not feed the trolls. To such a big extent the internet is now a toxic landscape of the leeches and the leeched from. And beyond the internet, the US had Trump elected in 2016 who exploited this perfectly.

My lesson from this is to really focus more on laughing at what currently surrounds us. Which requires a change in perspective and some detachment. There is now so much bullshit to laugh at we could all die from lack of breath, so let's do that and not satisfy the attentions thieves with your holy attention. The Trumps, the Tates, corporate marketing, attention whores in your own life… It's killing us.

You cant Stoic this away or Hedonise this away. Yes, have Joy. I am having joy on all this, even if a Atomic Bomb happens, I will enjoy. But please, dont ask to be not caring. All this world is a dream but is a sentient being that also feels. Dont robotise yourself. And if not even a tear fall from seeing all this, well. Good for you Seneca.

[Sincerity]

@Rafael Thundercat This is not about being apathetic, but about not giving attention unconsciously to those who do everything to steal it from you.

Understanding/research/being informed about the important news is valuable. Voting is necessary. But selling your precious attention to the ruthless leeches is not.

Being able to genuinely laugh at something is a good sign you’re not emotionally involved in that thing. Also, you can laugh but still understand and do your duty as a citizen when the time to vote or peacefully protest comes.

Edited February 22 by Sincerity

[Nilsi]

I must have posted this a dozen times already, but the way Ken Wilber frames this dilemma gets me every time.

[Schizophonia]

37 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

@Rafael Thundercat This is not about being apathetic, but about not giving attention unconsciously to those who do everything to steal it from you.

Understanding/research/being informed about the important news is valuable. Voting is necessary. But selling your precious attention to the ruthless leeches is not.

Being able to genuinely laugh at something is a good sign you’re not emotionally involved in that thing. Also, you can laugh but still understand and do your duty as a citizen when the time to vote or peacefully protest comes.

It's the mirror effect, if you look at the energy that pushes you to make this topic you will see with enough honesty and humor that it is the same energy projected on those concerned.

And I see this topic and want to answer it for the same reason.
We are all mirrored here, and the only thing to do is to continue playing ("gnegnegne addanenemymadeaccordingtotherestofourkarmicbaggage") or to play another game.

Edited February 22 by Schizophonia

[Emerald]

Interesting video. It mirrors the principle that anything you fight against will use your resistance to increase its power.

It's kind of like in the story of Bre'r Rabbit when he fights the tar baby.

Here's a depiction of the scene in the Disney movie "Song of the South". As a quick content warning, this movie is pretty racist because it heavily caricatures black American speech patterns.

But the scene still depicts the sticky nature of trolling that the video talks about and how it uses your own resistance against you... 

 

[PurpleTree]

That’s why i love the ignore function on this message board.

Don’t feed the trolls.

[puporing]

The main problem with this is just that, if everyone just "turns a blind eye" then the bullies will just keep doing what they are doing (and keep getting away with it). Yes I know it's hard to fight them and it may not always be wise to, but the alternative is actually worse in most of these cases, it's just that you may not feel it "personally" until things get really really bad.

The bullies will be armed in every way possible meanwhile, you have nothing and just waiting for them to take your shit. And I don't just mean "material things". 

So even the "sheep" may have no choice but to "arm themselves" in the presence of aggressors.

Part of a "masterful bully's" tactic is to tire out peaceful sheep and lie to you about some kind of protection or superficial benefit they are offering if you submit to their unjust demands so that you are both not alerted and "de-armed". But in reality, they will not blink an eye when they take your shit or raise hell on you when you start to protest or want independence.

And a lot of the times, a bully is built by people who stand there and do/say nothing and keep justifying in their mind that what they are witnessing is proper/okay. So then that's how starting bloody wars can even seem to be normal. They don't usually start with a bloody war, there was usually something before that and before that, that should've been stopped but wasn't.

You can have dangerous psychopathic "toddler men" running most of this world, that's kind of what is happening. But just because they are toddler level intelligence doesn't mean they can't deal some hefty destruction.

Edited February 23 by puporing

[Schizophonia]

13 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

That’s why i love the ignore function on this message board.

Don’t feed the trolls.

I never used it.

Trolls doesn't exists in my world (or rather almost doesn't exist).

[Schizophonia]

14 hours ago, Emerald said:

Interesting video. It mirrors the principle that anything you fight against will use your resistance to increase its power.

It's kind of like in the story of Bre'r Rabbit when he fights the tar baby.

Here's a depiction of the scene in the Disney movie "Song of the South". As a quick content warning, this movie is pretty racist because it heavily caricatures black American speech patterns.

But the scene still depicts the sticky nature of trolling that the video talks about and how it uses your own resistance against you... 

 

[Ishanga]

How You Respond to Situations is entirely Your Choice!! How You are responding is Conscious Action, all we can do as Human Beings is BE and ACT either Unconsciously or Consciously, the difference btwn these two is Enormous!!

When Your Blissful or Peaceful at the min of Your own Nature, then everything about You is Enhanced! Your Intelligence, Clarity, Creativity, Energy Levels, Resourcefulness, etc, all if it is Enhanced when Your At Peace within no matter what is going on around You.  Stress Response is the opposite of this, the situation is Bad, then you Stress about it, that makes things worse, as is Ego Identification with whatever is going on around You, either or will kill any possibility of Consciousness being a reality in Your Life.. 

So Choose how to be, whatever You think if the most Empowering for You, then be the light You want to see in the World, that is all You can Do, then Die Blissfully!!!

 

[Scholar]

21 hours ago, Emerald said:

Interesting video. It mirrors the principle that anything you fight against will use your resistance to increase its power.

There is the saying, what you resist, persists. Any tripper will understand that.

And this dynamic is partly the case because attention is life-giving, in a fundamental sense. In a metaphysical sense, existence is attention, life is attention. In a dynamic sense, attention is life-defining.

This means that that which you will give attention to will define you. In an evolutionary sense this is clear: The functionality of a body and mind is precisely a reaction to the attention the organism must give to survive and procreate.

When you give attention to Trump, and you react to him, that reaction will define your being, it will define your existence the moment you react to it. This can be imagine like a plant that must react to it's surroundings to grow and reach the light. Each obstacle in the way of the plant defines the plant, it's shape, it's path of growth.

This, in a deeper sense, is an interplay of the fundamental nature of Duality. Things do not merely come in opposites, but rather, opposites are codefining. The opposites require each other for their own existence, in a sense, the opposites yearn for one another. Life and death are essential parts of one another for this reason.

Twin dualities are fundamental in this way: When you react to something, not only are you beginning to be defined by the thing you react to, but importantly, you equally define the thing you react to. Trump is not merely being given existence through your attention, more importantly, the nature of Trump is determined by your reaction to him, as he equally resists your reaction to him, which in turn defines him.

This means we observe the twinship as the codependent, codefining nature of parts of reality.

 

During a dream or psychedelic trip, this twinship within the self is obvious. Your fears become manifest, and as you resist your fears, you define them through your resistance. The interdependence is clear, and the resolution of that fear will stem from how the interaction transpires. The fear can deepen through a further resistance, or the fear can be transformed, by transforming you in the first place. Notice this, that the fear ceases (it doesn't cease, it transforms) as a result of that very fear changing your nature (by for example overcoming the object of resistance through acceptance and integration). The grow requires your twin, the fear, as you either define yourself more clearly, more vividly, or unify into a transcendend form of existence.

This is the nature of consciousness, and in a societal scale, this is the nature of the collective consciousness, amplified by technologies that, of course, select for attention as their primary currency.

 

This is why it is not as simple as not giving it attention, because reality is not entirely determined by your attention. The shadow, that which is beyond attention, is always present. A neglecting of the shadow, a denial of it, will lead to the growth of the shadow. You cannot deny the existence of your twin, because it defines your very nature. You cannot be complete, unified, if you do not recognize it's presence.

This is why both censoring and attacking these things does not make them go away. What is required is a transcendence, fundamentally through unification.

Solipsism is true only in so far as the world is your Shadow, and each part within the world plays its role in defining you, as you define it.

Edited February 23 by Scholar