Exactly! So, if I do perceive it as a problem, all I can do is to go in search of those folks who do not.
But try to explain it to you. I just tried to explain why determinism is useless as a philosophical approach to life and you didn’t get anything that I said.
But if determinism is in fact the way of the world how is your explanation and my reation to it, not only as they ever could have been?
How could I not not get anything you said?
I have tried to introduce many ideas which I think would be helpful to you, but to no avail.
Your idea seems to revolve around the assumption that how you think and feel about something like Communism is how others should think and feel about it in turn. Otherwise [it would seem] what they are thinking and feeling about it is wrong.
How would keeping a gratitude journal actually keep you out of the hole that I am in?
An aspect of your hole is that you have no control over being in it and you can’t pull yourself out of it. A gratitude journal would demonstrate to you that you can change your thinking, that you are not trapped in the hole, that you have some control.
Look, I can understand how keeping this journal might lighten the load insofar as I am down in the hole but I’ve come up with all these things that I am still grateful for. But I am no less down in the hole. At least as it pertains to my own nihilistic assesment of moral narratives and political agendas.
All I can do [it would seem] is to go in search of those who were also down in this hole; and then after employing the journal technique changed their thinking and managed to yank themselves up out of it.
And, come on, there are hundreds upon hundreds of self-help techniques, life style changes, religious dogmas, spititual journeys, politcal spiels etc., which promise you one or another rendition of spiritual enlightenment or salvation.
But only those who were down in the hole that I am in and managed to yank themselves up by using one of these contraptions are likely to convince me that I can do the same. But even then I will expect them to react in an intelligent and challenging manner to the components of my own frame of mind.