Permacrisis?
- Daniel Knaul
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min read
I came across the term "Permacrisis" in a Guardian article, one that fuels the same pyre of mediocratic journalism that plagues our society, just earlier today, and I decided that my new least favorite word is. . .
Permacrisis:
A term coined by the mass media machine that tells everyone to be worried about everything in the world all of the time, for the belief that everything in the world is in perpetual crisis.
You should deal with this realization by living your own life, and laughing as an audience member would at anything else; since if it's outside of your sphere of influence, it's outside of your control, and therefore you are just an observer: an audience member who can laugh at all the tragedy and comedy, alike.
Binge watch season 2022 and laugh and cry with the characters, just remember that they're not you.
There have always been enough crisis' going on elsewhere to keep the whole human race busy with them, each in their own place and time. However, now we have a vast, interweaving, miasmatic, whirlwind of media that is nearly impossible to unplug from, and it is that unstoppable avalanche of over-information, dis-information, and misinformation, upon which we(as a society) are currently being swept away.
As expected and observed
when
Everyone holds opinions about everything,
then
Nobody seeks the truth about anything.
We now seem expected to busy ourselves and our minds with the issues of mankind everywhere, and the determination of right and wrong in every situation, despite no realistic expectation that we could, or hope of impact if and when we do.
I say this: To each their own place, to each their own time.
If you can't find it in yourself to laugh at the things you hear or read about, without letting them effect you unless you can effect them too, then perhaps unplug, withdraw, renew.
If it's better for you, it's better for those around you. If it' s better for those around you, it's better for society. If it's better for society, is it not the right thing to do?
Worry about only what you can affect.
It's all of our own decisions, what the right thing for our own hearts are, but by seeking the right thing for and from your own heart, you prove the value of my point.
Tend your own garden.
Admire the gardens that you admire and learn from their gardeners
Don't worry about gardening gardens beyond your reach.
But what good impact could I hope to have on our present society,
or even my present scene?
What is impact?
What is good?
What is my present scene?
Once I've answered all these questions for myself.
I should charge for that good impact:
Unflinchingly, unwaveringly, and willingly.
Without worry or care for the other problems of my day.
I will have decided what my greatest impact is,
and that everything else is poisonous distraction.
And I will tend my own garden
In defiance,
Taking action.
If you warrant it a crisis
Than from you
It warrants action.
To do any less is to be a moron.
Hurting your own state of mind for the benefit of others.
Stop enriching advertisers with your pained attention! Enrich your own mind in rebellion!




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