In times of great stress, panic, and unfolding news stories, you really don’t have to post. You’re not an embassy. You don’t have to make a statement. The world won’t stop because you decided to read a book this afternoon instead, and current events won’t stop being bad if you just post hard enough. Posting has never been activism. Consider saving posts to your drafts and then returning to them at the end of the day to see if you still want to post them. Consider that those who came before us also went through hard times, but they weren’t mentally tortured by a device in their pocket that blasts bad news into people’s eyeballs for several hours per day. Sometimes you need to ask yourself what you’re really doing besides exacerbating your own misery. You’re already informed, and if something else big happens, you’ll surely see it without having to be glued to your phone.
Oh, and you absolutely do not need to fuck yourself up by viewing real gore and murder, and you should not trust anyone who says otherwise. You can be against a murder without seeing it. You’re not sinful for wanting to spare yourself the mindfuck of seeing real death, because you’re not virtuous for making yourself suffer by seeing it. Again, fucking yourself up helps no one and nothing, and don’t let people guilt you into Catholic martyrdom by convincing you suffering is righteous
