TBF many people are more intimidated by emails. My mum, for example, is in her 70s - she’s okay with using a smartphone but she doesn’t trust ‘internet stuff’. Won’t put her card details in, doesn’t trust emails - which is fair, because a lot of emails are bullshit or scams. She grew up with telephones though and feels safer using them. Possibly why so many phone scams target older people. I’ve tried to educate her.

This attitude doesn’t make people dumb. A bit ignorant, maybe, but I feel like ‘dumb as shit’ is a bit harsh.

Yeah that’s a fair point. Thing is, I don’t know what to do about this shit (Gestures to world). I used to get involved in a lot of direct action when I was younger but I’m a bit old for that now. And I can’t really say that all the times I got battered by the police, arrested on airbases, shit like that - I’m not sure I made any difference at all. Some of those actions made headlines but those were mostly negative. And I know people say “Vote!” - but I do, and that doesn’t seem to help either.

So yeah, sometimes I just don’t use the stove for a while. I just feel a bit fuckin defeated.

Sometimes when it gets overwhelming I don’t do any news or social media at all for a few weeks. It seems to help my mental health, particularly when every bit of news suggests that everything is going to shit.