Susan60 on Nostr: Like many autistic people, I have a highly developed sense of morality, an “over ...
Like many autistic people, I have a highly developed sense of morality, an “over developed conscience” as one of my lecturers called it. I don’t pretend to be a “good” or “better” person. It’s not something I work at, just the way I am, & I have plenty of flaws.
It leaves me feeling… utterly discombobulated by certain situations. The fact that a convicted felon, rapist, liar, cheat, misogynist, racist, narcissist & someone whom I thought might be charged with treason, can still run for high office in a so called “developed” nation.
The fact that escalating climate disasters are occurring, and still new fossil fuel projects are being approved. (How do they get funding?)
The fact that politicians and health authorities are trying to pretend that the pandemic is over, while life destroying long Covid cases multiply & people catch Covid while in hospital, sometimes dying of it.
The fact that western nations continue to support a murderous rogue state engaged in scorched earth retribution.
I’m not a binary, “black & white” person. I get that things are complicated. Gee, I just got back from a trip to Europe, flying 1000s of kilometres, even though I’m concerned about climate change. (I realise that any personal decisions I make in this area pale into insignificance while governments & corporations pay lip service to reducing carbon emissions.)
But there are some things which can’t be denied. Where the cost of pretending that everything’s ok is simply too high - in lives, quality of life, environmental destruction & species loss, the economy.
It’s wrong. It’s illogical. It’s incomprehensible.
I get that there are some really bad actors, psychopaths etc, & some others who aren’t quite as bad, but are motivated by greed & self interest.
But most people are capable of realising that no matter how fortunate & privileged they might be, even they will suffer if not enough is done to address climate change, Covid, threats to democracy etc. But they choose not to focus on that. They choose to listen to shysters who are amongst the psychopathic & short term profit driven bad actors. Why? (Rhetorical question. I don’t think I want to know.)
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It leaves me feeling… utterly discombobulated by certain situations. The fact that a convicted felon, rapist, liar, cheat, misogynist, racist, narcissist & someone whom I thought might be charged with treason, can still run for high office in a so called “developed” nation.
The fact that escalating climate disasters are occurring, and still new fossil fuel projects are being approved. (How do they get funding?)
The fact that politicians and health authorities are trying to pretend that the pandemic is over, while life destroying long Covid cases multiply & people catch Covid while in hospital, sometimes dying of it.
The fact that western nations continue to support a murderous rogue state engaged in scorched earth retribution.
I’m not a binary, “black & white” person. I get that things are complicated. Gee, I just got back from a trip to Europe, flying 1000s of kilometres, even though I’m concerned about climate change. (I realise that any personal decisions I make in this area pale into insignificance while governments & corporations pay lip service to reducing carbon emissions.)
But there are some things which can’t be denied. Where the cost of pretending that everything’s ok is simply too high - in lives, quality of life, environmental destruction & species loss, the economy.
It’s wrong. It’s illogical. It’s incomprehensible.
I get that there are some really bad actors, psychopaths etc, & some others who aren’t quite as bad, but are motivated by greed & self interest.
But most people are capable of realising that no matter how fortunate & privileged they might be, even they will suffer if not enough is done to address climate change, Covid, threats to democracy etc. But they choose not to focus on that. They choose to listen to shysters who are amongst the psychopathic & short term profit driven bad actors. Why? (Rhetorical question. I don’t think I want to know.)
ActuallyAutistic group (npub1mew…tau6) #actuallyautistic