I was thinking today how much stress are we under at present and for the future and maybe how out of balance we may be, wherever the balance is for each of us. We are adaptable creatures, but never in our existence as a species, at least since civilization started (as far as I can think of right now without researching) have we been subjected to so many challenges in so rapid succession, even though we had many challenges in the past. But the difference is the speed at which we have been facing breaking changes.
A couple of years ago, we went through the Covid + lockdown experiments, followed shortly after by wars and threats of war, war spending, refugees, sanctions, much higher prices globally, woke-ism and now the reverse, anti-woke-ism.
In politics, radicalism is the norm on either side of the spectrum and any decent person gets tired of this show quickly.
Corporations don't give a damn about customers more than numbers on their balance sheets. They may care to make them addicted, since that's what makes them long term milk cows. Just take a few examples for edification: pharma industry, banks, hypermarkets, social media (if it doesn't take your money, it takes your time and sells your data).
AI is disrupting much of what it touches, jobs are lost, and so far empty promises of new jobs are made. But we will see. People struggle to keep up with AI or shield themselves as much from it as possible, risking to either be left behind or to live in a parallel society, if enough of them are in this second group.
Crypto has a "known cycle", but from theory to practice there's a distance, and living crypto events every day can be stressful, even when it isn't supposed to be, when everyone should feel "like geniuses", in the bull market.
If on top of that you also have some personal issues, or you've been affected more than the average person by losing your job, losing your money in crypto bets, or whatever, things are probably increasingly difficult to cope with.
Yes, we can (try to) shield ourselves from some of the negativity, for example by not paying attention to media, politics, or other stuff we can't influence. But the rising prices, for example, affect you even if you don't pay attention to all the sh*t going on in the world.
The AI did a good job on this one.
Unless you are self-sufficient (and most aren't), so does food and drink, especially the processed ones, with all the additives, colorants, flavor enhancers, sweeteners, preservatives, empty calories, etc.
I'm spending an unacceptable amount of time paying attention to how not to get killed quickly or slowly by the food producers, when this shouldn't have been my concern. Trump says the EU should take the US crops. Nope, I strongly disagree with this one. Trump should eat them all with all the harmful pesticides still used there. Not that our country hasn't been flooded by products from other countries with uncontrolled levels of pesticides. But at least you can avoid them, if you know their origin.
I need a vacation, lol. I may take one this year, hopefully. Maybe an alt season could help. And Trump and other high-profile individuals staying out of the meme coins market, to stop extracting liquidity from more serious projects. This may be an illusion on my part.
How do you cope with everything we have to deal with recently? Does it feel overwhelming? If it does, perhaps that's the point. A "great reset" may sound like a very good thing (bullsh*t!) when you come after such an intense, emotional and money-draining period.