Thought for the day

[ewt]

"Now there's this about cynicism. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace." - from Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold

From comments on this entry.

How do you respond to bad-news fatigue?

Comments

[nitoda]

I got bad news fatigue many many years ago and basically avoid most of it now. I do things like belonging to Amnesty because I believe in and want to support their work for human rights but *never* reading their journal because I find it too deeply upsetting. I guess if there was an *easy* way to help I'd take it up on some issues, but there are so many issues and so little time and energy for putting the world to rights. I try to concentrate efforts I make into areas of real personal concern to me: e.g. helping with Depend (http://www.depend.org.uk), National Autistic Society and more local stuff like my employer's LGBT network and the overall Civil Service LGBT organisation Civil Service Rainbow Alliance, along with a certain amount of other Bi and Poly activism at a local level.