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When you think of the horrors of the world it’s so easy to blame a single group of people or a government or whatever. I think what is underlying beneath that is this desire that we want someone to blame. Not only if we can fix the situation, we can reach some sort of utopia or Nirvana. I think what is more terrifying that lives underneath this assumption, often times unconscious, is this feeling that the world is complicated. Reality is complicated there is too much nuance. There really is no single entity or no one to blame. Which short circuits are desire for blame. What do you do when you have no one to blame? Long ago I lost a friend, a close friend to a car accident. Of course my reasoning for a long time, was to blame everyone else for her death. You have an enemy, you hate the enemy. The grief is pure in a way, because the narrative makes sense. Over time though, hate and blame thaws. And you’re left with the feeling that there is no one to blame. At this point it’s easy to start to fall into nihilism, or at least some garden variety of it. A sense of meaninglessness about all of the atrocities or terrible things that take place. I think my first reaction is it’s OK to feel those feelings, doesn’t make it true either and that’s also OK. I sort of like to think of them like decanters for wine. You pour them in you let them sit for a while maybe oxidated a little bit. And then you take a sip and if you don’t like it you can throw it out if you do good for you, Friend. I don’t think I really have a point. During Covid, or as Covid was ending, I got together with a bunch of former colleagues at the sports page in Mountain View. It was the first time we all met up after our project got canceled. It was great. I had a burger that I ordered late because I didn’t know they had a kitchen The other day I visited my friend, who just had a daughter. She was about six weeks old. When I first met her she waved at me, and she sort of looked like his mom which I thought was hilarious.
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I think my blame timeline is really different. After my husband died, there were a lot of people throwing blame around and I just couldn’t. None of that was going to bring him back I feel the same after major tragedies and catastrophes like the recent floods I do often develop a sense of needing accountability later. Not in my husband’s situation but probably the floods. We’ll see Smoosh your babies
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We want someone to blame, and we are often told whom to blame; when the absurdity of this mechanism is revealed it can be a very liberating moment, although not necessarily pleasant
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Russian state propaganda has a favorite slogan: “It’s not that simple.” This is how they justify their invasion of Ukraine. There are indeed many nuances behind how this became possible — how it was provoked, what led to it. But the responsibility for starting the war and continuing it lies with the one who signed the order for a full-scale invasion — and that is Putin. In any act of violence, the one to blame is the perpetrator. There can be no justification for that — even though violence is often shaped by a complex set of conditions and many people play a role in its emergence, in each specific case the responsibility lies with the one who chooses to inflict it. Understanding how a violent society is formed — that’s important in the long term. But in the short term, in every particular case where the decision came down to one person, any talk of “complexity” becomes a way of shifting part of the blame onto others. The full weight of guilt for the decision to commit violence lies with the one who made that decision. Yes, others bear responsibility too — but that’s a different guilt, individual and separate for each person involved. And they should be identified and held accountable. Still, when it comes to many life situations — and especially global problems — I absolutely agree with your point.
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The root of conspiracy theory lies here.
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felt this heavy the need to blame is a trap we all slip into it’s actually disorienting when no one’s there to hold the weight.
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This hit deep. Sometimes the scariest truth is that there’s no clear villain just randomness and grief. And somehow, we still carry on.
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