<story><title>Suicide rising across the US</title><url>https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JacksonGariety</author><text>The dilemma is that leaving social media is increasingly tantamount to leaving society, which is the basis for what remains of politics. On the other hand, the &amp;quot;politics&amp;quot; that occurs on social media is increasingly nothing other than a popularity contest. It seems hopeless.</text></item><item><author>ams6110</author><text>&amp;gt; the world feels like such a blur&lt;p&gt;Get off of social media and twitter.&lt;p&gt;Stop watching&amp;#x2F;reading the news every day. If you want to keep up with current events, read a politically neutral monthly periodical.&lt;p&gt;I grew up in the 70&amp;#x27;s and 80&amp;#x27;s. Every generation looks back on its youth as &amp;quot;the good old days&amp;quot; but things really were much less stressful then and the main difference I see is that you were not connected to a firehose of real-time updates on everything.</text></item><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>The accelerationism of the world is really taking it&amp;#x27;s toll. I feel like the political and economical system is, idk, a result of over-application of certain tenets that might have been justified in the past but are increasingly less valid but certain forces are clinging to them because these tenets are all they have.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just the US, the world feels like such a blur. Very important and fucked up things are happening multiple times daily. Things that don&amp;#x27;t affect me but a lot of times actually really do. Some thousand year old struggles seem to be getting kicked into the internet age and as a result the whole world is getting involved in local conflicts and is forced to take sides.&lt;p&gt;I legit feel as if some sort of new conception of government, nations, states, rights, is really needed. I don&amp;#x27;t know what but I&amp;#x27;m all ears.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaredklewis</author><text>&amp;gt; The dilemma is that leaving social media is increasingly tantamount to leaving society&lt;p&gt;Aside from my debilitating addiction to HN, I don&amp;#x27;t use social media. I have a job, family, large circle of friends, and all the usual attachments to society. I vote and love to debate politics with pretty much anyone interested. How exactly would my attachment to society be improved by more social media? If HN went away tomorrow, would I no longer be a part of society?&lt;p&gt;I have found fruitful, enjoyable political discussion and social media to be more or less incompatible. Twitter and Facebook work great for the purpose of &amp;quot;rallying the base.&amp;quot; Tweeting or sharing the latest polemic showing all your friends how truly liberal or conservative you are doesn&amp;#x27;t do much to bring in converts. But the political bases in the US are quickly approaching max rallied-ness. From here on out is the actually difficult tasks of changing hearts and minds, and that doesn&amp;#x27;t happen on social media.&lt;p&gt;If you care about politics, the further you get from social media the better.</text></comment>
<story><title>Suicide rising across the US</title><url>https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JacksonGariety</author><text>The dilemma is that leaving social media is increasingly tantamount to leaving society, which is the basis for what remains of politics. On the other hand, the &amp;quot;politics&amp;quot; that occurs on social media is increasingly nothing other than a popularity contest. It seems hopeless.</text></item><item><author>ams6110</author><text>&amp;gt; the world feels like such a blur&lt;p&gt;Get off of social media and twitter.&lt;p&gt;Stop watching&amp;#x2F;reading the news every day. If you want to keep up with current events, read a politically neutral monthly periodical.&lt;p&gt;I grew up in the 70&amp;#x27;s and 80&amp;#x27;s. Every generation looks back on its youth as &amp;quot;the good old days&amp;quot; but things really were much less stressful then and the main difference I see is that you were not connected to a firehose of real-time updates on everything.</text></item><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>The accelerationism of the world is really taking it&amp;#x27;s toll. I feel like the political and economical system is, idk, a result of over-application of certain tenets that might have been justified in the past but are increasingly less valid but certain forces are clinging to them because these tenets are all they have.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just the US, the world feels like such a blur. Very important and fucked up things are happening multiple times daily. Things that don&amp;#x27;t affect me but a lot of times actually really do. Some thousand year old struggles seem to be getting kicked into the internet age and as a result the whole world is getting involved in local conflicts and is forced to take sides.&lt;p&gt;I legit feel as if some sort of new conception of government, nations, states, rights, is really needed. I don&amp;#x27;t know what but I&amp;#x27;m all ears.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>castlecrasher2</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a personal dilemma, not a societal one. My personal take of social media is similar to yours in that it&amp;#x27;s a popularity contest and allows people to distract themselves from community, local, or family involvement and from self-improvement.</text></comment>