bloomer
A place for optimism, relentless positivity, anti-doomerism, and snuggle sessions.
We're all in this together, and a better world is possible!
This is now also a space for organizing tips for our collective survival as we confront climate change and everything else. Still no doom-posting. We're here to work together, support each other, and boldly face the future.
Rules:
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Familiarize yourself with the site-wide Code of Conduct
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No doom, no gloom, only bloom. There's plenty of room for doomerism elsewhere. This community is solely for having a positive outlook on the future and spreading good vibes.
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Be kind to your fellow users. This also means no arguing in the comm. Arguments and negativity are not conducive to blooming. Constructive discussion is good. No interest-policing. Support your comrades in their joy!
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Always share good news. We can't exactly enforce this one, but if you have good news, please share it with us! Keeping happiness and positivity to yourself is the twelfth type of liberalism.
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Despair is a presupposition about the future colliding with an incomplete remembrance of the past. Both are immaterial since we cannot affect them Now and Here. All that came before is immutable, and all that comes after is chaos. Action follows from stillness, and stillness can only be achieved Now and Here.
Practice stillness, spontaneity, naturalness. Practice observation without prejudice, without self. The purpose of a system is what it does, the nature of a thing is what it is. Gravity has no will, it simply is. The You who is you traces a path in spacetime no more privileged than any other.
Cultivate humility and flexibility in the face of changing circumstances. Avoid consuming desire. Be skilled, helpful, nurturing. Learn when to yield, learn when to be still. Avoid striving. Do not attempt to force an outcome, practice cultivating circumstances so things unfold harmoniously. Be irreverent; titles, status, and ambition (and the respect for those) are antagonistic to simplicity.
Celebrate the good of others, treat others with dignity and kindness, do not succumb to vengefulness when harm is done to you.
Ursula LeGuin's translation of Laozi is quite approachable and has some light commentary. It's a pretty quick read.