• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    As dark as it sounds, this is part of the purpose of stochastic terrorism.

    To make you feel unsafe anywhere, at any time. To nearly always be in a state of shock.

    The shock you feel is normal, and you should try to find healthy ways to deal with that shock and overcome your shock.

    As rightly considered in the book The Shock Doctrine, societies under shock are easier to control, which is why constant shocks of stochastic terrorism have helped increase police budgets in a time period where no one trusts the police and considers them a government-sanctioned group of thugs who will lie, cheat, and steal to ruin your life.

    Shock passes, and we must attempt to be resilient against these shocks by understanding what is going, communicating with others about the situation and how we must resist shock, to providing mutual aid for others who are also in shock.


    What can we, the denizens of Lemmy, offer you, in these trying times?


    EDIT: I’m so used to this being a US problem I didn’t even realize this might not be about the US.