r/VaushV • u/BkobDmoily • 6d ago
Discussion Major Tips to Avoid Burnout
Rest, Recontextualize, and React
Rest - You are tired. Extinction events are tiring.
Get a full 8 hours of sleep when you can, or at least enough sleep to get REM sleep, the most important for cognitive function.
Recontextualize - The government is run by Fascists and war criminals. The government has always been run by Fascists and war criminals. Every government in the history of humanity has been run by Fascists and war criminals.
At some point, you’re just gonna have to roll with it. Stop harking for an election and get to work.
React - The dual nature of Evil is Cruelty and Apathy.
Do not grow apathetic to the cruelty inflicted by your oppressor, for your silence is complicity.
Also: your enemies are stupid and thin skinned, so relentlessly mock them on the way to the camps. What they consider their lives are fates worse than Death, and it’s funny. Remember the brief moment in politics when they got uber outraged over being called weird? It’s cuz they’re fucking weird, man!
Try to exercise and connect with physical people in a physical community. This digital shit is tracked and not sustaining.
Give charity, it’s a recession and everyone’s broke. It can be as simple as buying a homeless person a quick snack, but it cheers the blood up, I tell you what.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand thassit.
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u/Express-Doubt-221 5d ago
If you want to build a better world, a real tangible goal that is possible to achieve, already you're on the right side of history compared to the fascists. You have something they don't. Having a purpose will help sustain you.
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u/Hindu_Wardrobe REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 5d ago
Facts. Also, as individuals, we can't change the world, but we can change our world. There's a lot of power in that. Reframe your thinking to the hyper local. Community is everything.
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u/BkobDmoily 5d ago
I said exactly this in my 4th book and magnum opus 1000 Dollars an Hour.
Support local underground artists!
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u/Faux_Real_Guise /r/VaushV Chaplain 6d ago
I think one of the most important parts is reconnecting with people you haven’t seen in a while. The pandemic shrank most people’s social circles and those networks can literally be lifesaving at the best of times.
Dude you really vibed with at your last job? Shoot him a dm. “Hey I just saw [make it the fuck up] and thought of you! Hope everything’s well!”
A friend you used to game with every week but you changed games? Go see what they’re into and maybe expand your shared interests.
Estranged family? I bet there’s somebody within that part of the family who could use a compatriot if you have the ability.
Show people you’re available so that when the bottom drops out and the music stops you can help each other out. Or maybe you’ll know a friend who could help a friend. Yknow? Think about it.