Do you ever feel so overwhelmed by all of the shit happening in the world...

[Gravitycollapse]

That you seriously consider taking some time off living somewhere deep in the woods?

I'm at that point.

[Silver Gaia]

1. Every. Freaking. Day.

[Summer Hathaway]

2. No, actually I don't.

That's probably because I spend a lot more time in the real world than I do in the DU bubble.

[Journeyman]

3. Ha, ha, ha -- that's great . . .

So true.

[Summer Hathaway]

6. Yes, it is true

The level of paranoia here is, most unfortunately, contagious among the weak-minded and easily-manipulated.

The sky falls at least a dozen times a day, and everything that happens anywhere is chilling, frightening, unprecedented, and, needless to say, yet another sign of fascism, the inevitable 'surveillance state', and the 1% taking over the universe.

I think DU will make a great movie someday soon - kind of an updated version of the Twilight Zone's classic, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street".

[ileus]

13. You hurt someone's feelings.

not guilty was the verdict however...

[chervilant]

17. Says the DUer

with over 500 posts in the last 90 days...

(Methinks the poster doth protest too much.)

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

4. I used to until I stopped looking at things through a political lens.

Some things you just have to write off for your own sanity if they don't personally affect you.

Some things aren't as bad as those seeking ratings and web traffic make them out to be.

My life is short, so I focus on what I can change short-term. After I'm gone, fuck it.

[Skittles]

5. I wish I was independently wealthy and could do that, yes

but I would always keep trying to help other people

[otohara]

7. I Wish We Could Move to Japan

where people are polite and there are no guns

[LuvNewcastle]

8. I often feel that way.

But I know that problems have a way of finding you no matter where you are.

[marions ghost]

16. Absolutely true

there are no "woods" where you can escape these problems. They will find you. But people who think they can just simply avoid politics have to learn that the hard way...

Maybe if you can leave the country, you might be able to get away from the horrific greed and corruption of America, but if you stay in the country, you are always vulnerable to the problems here because they are systemic.

[HiPointDem]

9. i used to feel that way. until the advent of google earth. there's no longer any 'deep in the

woods' left.

there is no longer anywhere on earth outside the shit

[darkangel218]

11. Central FL still has plenty of woods.

You can get a house and farm land north of Orlando for very lil money, and not have or see a neighbour for miles.

[HiPointDem]

14. not the same thing anymore. the 'woods' are now like a part of a global disneyland owned by

the ruling class.

they exist, but they are readily accessible to power.

[darkangel218]

15. True that..

[jessie04]

10. I use to...

then I learned to stay stoned all day and things get better.

[ileus]

12. I only have 90 hours of PTO...

it would be a pretty short vacation.