This just in, ignorance is still bliss
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Yeah, but ignorance makes you ignant.
Most of the MAGA sphere spends all day watching all the things the news people tell them to be afraid of. I don't buy this for a second.
Yeah I think I recently have read here on Lemmy that the amygdala is bigger for MAGA, so I think the opposite is true indeed.
Which would also make more sense, because of all the irrational anxieties those scum has...
I believe its called "amygdala maxxing"
You gonna tell me a shit post may not be factually accurate?
Shit but verify, that's been my motto.
Sir, my pearls have been clutched!
Good
It was maybe a month or two ago that an article showed that studies like these - all usually done as surveys - are highly susceptible to changes in input from users, just by word choice. In their example, they showed that if you use terms like 'mental health' while surveying people, a discrepancy emerges between non-conservatives and conservatives. This discrepancy disappears when you instead ask other questions, such as ones about sleep, worries , and fears.
So I don't really know if I overall trust the data on happiness overall.
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Simple worldviews tend to be happier. Ignorance is bliss.
Honestly, I am pretty happy as a woke person.
The trick is to watch less news and do more things to actually change anything.
I'm part of a mutual aid group that delivers groceries to people every 2 weeks.
We sometimes get urgent requests on off-dates.
I don't think I can explain how satisfying(?), motivating(?) it was to randomly get off work one evening last week with instructions to buy $50 worth of groceries for someone I'd never met and to drop it off.
To be part of someone finding relief in a terrible situation.
The hardest part was honestly finding a group with flexible opportunities that I could contribute to regularly. Most organizations that ask for volunteers often want business-hour availability, and 6+ mo commitment - ie, good for retirees.
Yep, (social) media is optimized in fueling your emotions, and well the strongest emotions are negative, so it's mostly optimized towards that.
Avoiding this, doing something more healthy leads to a better mental (and likely physical as it's connected) health IMO/IME.
I always thought it was funny how tough that steak seems based on his chewing.
Yeah I wonder why that is.
Hmmm, how about that. People who pay attention to what's going on around them are less happy then the blissfully ignorant? Wow, someone should look into this and find out why?
I wouldn't call myself woke and I'm not happy. This is NONSENSE!
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