Short answer: destroying is easy, creating is hard.
Now I did find one thing interesting. You asked basicly how to turn anger into motivation. It needs work and most people don't see that they need to do this work until things are going south.
When I was battling with depression I was extremely angry at first. I've tried to supress that anger and eventually it lead to losing all motivation. During group therapy that I've eventually attended we've done an excercise that thought me one important thing: anger and motivation come from the same place. Getting rid of anger is a wrong approach. It's something we need. But what we have to learn thruout our whole life is how to make this emotion lead to constructive action rather than burn out. I guess depending on personality for some it might be easier for others might be harder. I personally find this hard and while I'm not as angry as I used to be, I haven't rebuild my motivation the way I would like it to be. One thing that helped me for sure in keeping certain acceptable status quo is gaming. As a perfectionist I need to learn how to let go yet still move forward. While still far from perfect, I am in much better place than 10 years ago.
Enough about me ^^ Can we make people understand the issue? I really know. I'm afraid people need to realize that for themselves. Unfortunately, if someone doesn't feel their actions are harmful to themselves there is no force on earth that can make them change that. Simply because change is hard work and one needs really strong reasons in order to start on that path. Even when one realizes that they need to change it's still easier to not do anything.
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[–] RedditCEOEllenPao ago (edited ago)
Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed
[Zorg Pushes the glass off the table. It shatters on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]
Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.
https://youtu.be/PNR8u9CGOI0?t=2m44s
Liberty isn't coded into blood it is a privilege that is always only one generation away from being extinguished, rather than check my privilege I think I'll continue to fight for it.
Start at 2:44 to see the main baddie make the same argument as OP. :D
It simply depends where you look. Visiting a voat development / idea hub verse will reveal dramatically different content then the ideas that make it to the frontpage, which only do so via being submit to a broad verse that's doesn't specialize in that kind of discussion.
[–] OllieQueen [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I understand. This is my alt account used specifically for trudging through popular subverses. However, on my other account, my subverses dropped in content specifically because the users no longer wished to be part of a stress inducing place (keep in mind my subverses are not stress inducing). I've spoken with them, and they just left voat in its entirety.
while that is them, and not me, I can't help but wonder...how much hate has permeated?
I feel like it all boils down to whether a person is a talker or doer.
In life, we all meet people who say they're going to do things who eventually back out of them. I don't think it's different here. A lot of people really do have the best intentions with contributing to conversations but are off-put by the complexity / effort that comes up.
If I were you I'd see it like this: people are leaving because actual work is involved
Also - what topic does that sub specialize in? you can be broad, I'm curious
I used to be quite defensive and i started arguements when there was none. as in i let my insecurities guide me, and therefore i did not listen to what was actually being said, but instead imagined what the meaning was. when i realized that i am not that important to strangers on the internet, it helped me have a constructive mindset when i see things i do not agree with. ive learnt that everyone is intitled to their opinion and usually they have a good reason for saying what they are saying, even though it might seem ignorant to some... also i can not change anyone or anything except myself.
[–] TheBuddha ago
My username means I must try to give a good and philosophical answer to this. So... I will give you a single word answer and you may do with it as you see fit.
Entropy.