Yesterday, we told you about a recent study that shows being 'woke' means you are more likely to be unhappy, anxious, and depressed.
‘Woke’ people more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed, new study suggests https://t.co/25RQn08ouR pic.twitter.com/QDHcGadc8D
— New York Post (@nypost) March 17, 2024
We don't need a study about this: we have eyes, ears, and brains.
Choosing to be 'woke' -- that is, seeing oppression, microaggressions, and negativity in every facet of life -- inevitably leads to utter misery.
When the entire world is out to get you, and you are a helpless victim, what outcome do you expect? Especially when you're told that you can't fight back against your supposed 'oppressors' -- be they big business, men, white people, or whatever the bogeyman du jour is for the Left.
Woke people actively search for reasons to be upset... so this makes perfect sense. https://t.co/haJt2QvyYa
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) March 18, 2024
Yes, it does.
Don't get me wrong: it's very easy to get down. Life can be hard. Tremendously hard.
We face losses: jobs, income, friends, loved ones. The economy is in a shambles. The political landscape is a dumpster fire. Things can change on a dime.
There is also a lot of good in the world. More good than bad, I believe, because the bad gets the headlines and the clicks. And maybe that's me just being a hopeless optimist. I'd like to think there's more to it than that, though.
Even in the darkest of times I've seen the good in people, though. And I try my hardest to be a ray of warm, welcoming sunshine for the people I love and meet.
Wokeness destroys your mind and soul. The world is beautiful. There is light if you look for it.
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) March 18, 2024
If all you look for is the dark, it will consume you. https://t.co/0aA3BiVPgc
The darkness can so easily consume us.
Especially when it's all we see.
And there are people who have a vested interest in keeping us looking for the darkness. It gives them a lot of power and control over us, as they offer to be our 'saviors' and to 'fix' the problems they often created in the first place.
We shouldn't give them that control over us.
Don't get me wrong: depression is real, and insidious. Sadness is a normal human emotion. We can experience both (heaven knows I have), but many times those aren't self-inflicted and they often don't color our entire world view like wokeness does. Wokeness infests everything like ideological termites: it weakens the structure of who we are, breaks us down into sawdust.
But we live in some of the best times in human history. Unprecedented technology, medical care, convenience and luxuries our forebears only could have dreamed about. We are not ravaged by disease, we are not hunting and gathering to survive, our life expectancy is not 35 years old. Anyone who has even a vague awareness of human history knows this, which is maybe why so many people think things are bad today when the exact opposite is true. Our ancestors would be amazed at how we live.
Setting aside real trauma and real depression -- so much of our misery is self-inflicted. Especially if you're woke, and there's literally nothing good in the world, because what is acceptable today will probably not be woke enough tomorrow, and you must continue to be outraged and miserable.
I go back, repeatedly, to the scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, where Samwise Gamgee (the real hero of the books), tells Frodo:
“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
The people you love, and I am blessed with a great love, your friends, good books, good movies, a walk in the spring sunshine, whatever it is that makes you smile. That's that good I cling to, the good we should all cling to.
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