Certified Crop Advisor, Farm Manager at PS Regenerative Ag Demonstration Farm.
North Dakota, USA
Joined November 2016
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Part 1.
“So much are we now involved in problems of human groups, so persistent are the portrayals of our social afflictions, and so well do we magnify our woes by insisting on them, so much in sheer weariness do we provide antidotes to soothe our feelings……..cont.
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I asked Grok to translate to Gen Z.
We’re so cooked rn—literally drowning in all these big group/society problems (like politics, inequality, climate, all that drama). The timeline and news stay spamming us with how messed up everything is, no cap.
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—no filters, no flexing, just pure joy. And we also stop separating what we as individuals are actually responsible for, from the chaotic, irresponsible mess that big crowds and “society” create (like we blame “the system” for everything and never look at our own actions).
TL;DR:
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Netflix binges, TikTok rabbit holes, shopping hauls, parties, whatever numbs the brain and helps us forget for a sec. But these are all lowkey empty and mid af.
Because of all that, we straight-up forget how to just vibe and feel simple, real personal happiness—
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We keep hyping up our problems by constantly venting and dwelling on them, making everything feel 10x worse.
Then we get straight-up exhausted from all the doomscrolling and negativity, so we cope by hitting the distractions heavy:
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Part 2
“and to cause us to forget by means of many empty diversions, that we may neglect to express ourselves in simple free personal joy and to separate the obligation of the individual from the irresponsibilities of the mass.”
Excerpt From
The Holy Earth 1915.
L. H. Bailey
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2 truths I learned from a life in Ag that people who work in government are about to find out.
1. NO ONE likes a mouthy hired man. You may be very good at your job, but your employer will take someone not as talented but with a better attitude.
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This tock tick ban is almost as scarring to this generation as the last episode of “Dallas” was to the Boomers.
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Always digging around in the dirt!
North Dakota sugarbeet farmers work to save the soil agweek.com/news/sugarbeet/no…
