The whole world is crazy.

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How the hell are you supposed to maintain sanity, with all this insane s**t going on? like when the world is insane how do you keep your sanity? I guess I am just trying to pretend its all normal, i got a job so I will have to start focusing on that and hope it goes well, but I am still worried about fascism Just never really thought I'd see the day that was on the table for this country but well when trump became president everything changed, I guess.

But yeah I guess how do you stay sane, when the whole rest of the world seems insane? Is it now normal to just feel insane...idk none of it makes any sense anymore.

I recommend the two books by British-Russian journalist Peter Pomerantsev, "Nothing is true and everything is possible" and "This is not propaganda".
Pomerantsev is the son of a Russian dissident who fled to the UK. He went to work in Russia as a TV-producer in the early 2000s and describes a country where the government intentionally disseminates contradicting information about just about anything - with the result of people just losing interest in public life, because you can't actually make plans or organize if you just don't know what's going on - as an example: the government would offivially announce that anti-government demonstrations were actually government funded - and thry would fund environmentalists and the Russian version of the Hell's Angels, and let the people know.
In this informational chaos, Putin and friends are free to do whatever they want, because it becomes impossible to tell the real crimes from the rumors Putin himself spread.
It's a brilliant technique, if all ypu want is to get power and money for a while and don't care if there's a nation or a society or community left after you die.
The first book ends with Pomerantsev moving back to London, encountering some of the Russian billionaires he had met in Moscow.

The second book is concerned with Pomerantsev talking to journalists all over the world, dissecting how Duterte used facebook to get elected in Indonesia, or with the resistance fighters in Ukraine.

It's all pretty harrowing, but it helps to understand that no, not the whole world has gone crazy - but the whole world can now be gaslighted by anyone with the intention and the money to do so.
The important thing to understand though is that disengagement is the aim of these people. People staying home, depressed or gardening, not even trying to defend themselves.

Listening to Mark Blyrh on economics also helps.

Feels alot like the black lives matter protests in Portland Oregon. Public officials here taking a knee and in various other public venues .
And then non uniformed Government private security firms rounding up and kidnapping protestors at the Portland BLM protests .
by the way these private security firms are known the world over as mercenaries. And are used often by Governments to quell ( put down) uprisings . [ catch the leaders of such uprisings early enough. And you can stop a uprising] .
Have personally witnessed these type of tactics used where i live at city counsel meeting albeit , more direct use of Police Officers to remove Persons who wished to address the city counsel formally.When it was their turn to speak on the roster of speakers.

Fascism was an element of our system long before Trump came along. He just stripped the phony mask off the government so it became more obvious.

It's not just Trump or even limited to the USA.
Seems like the whole world has gone mental.
I can't stand it either.

It really does appear our media is taking us for a ride . a very bad , previous reading indicates the Russian model of population control . Keep everyone guess so that no one can figure out where the issues are, that are important . Are constantly obsured .
And actually people who dissent are traumatized to a point of not wanting involvement in the change that is needed. Early in their efforts . It actually appears a little like our country may be taking lessons from Russias methods.
Consider that Corporations control 2/3 s of our National budget ..and our media is a out growth of our Corporations . And the world Corporations know that a complliant popullation/ workforce is a useful workforce.

It seems that in the last few years people just can't agree to disagree with each other anymore like they use to be able to. The thought of disagreeing is just a horrible horrible thing to people nowadays. But what happened, and why did so many people have to become p%$#sies all at the same time a few years ago?

I asked my friends about what did this, and the only answers they could come up with were Trump and the Metoo movement. But it seems like those two things are not enough to do that, and they wouldn't affect the entire world, unless they would?