Hồ Chí Minh (1890-1969) was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who led the resistance against French colonialism, and subsequently against the US invasion, until his death from heart failure six years before the liberation of Vietnam.(PW)
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??? Yeah, that’s what I said, to think about action and be prepared rather than wallowing in anxiety and you reply as if you’re arguing with me.
Oh fair.
Yes, I misread what you said in a hurry.
Alright, gotcha, but I think the anxiety is fine so long as it’s not paralyzing, is all I’ll say.
I’m not saying we should “wallow” in it, but I think the danger is real, and we should move accordingly. It’s okay to “retreat,” as Lenin said.
I think fixating on defending anxiety on the internet, while implying the situation is bad enough that it’s a kind of crisis warranting anxiety, is contradictory and it shows in your haste here. If it’s really that bad, there are far better things to be doing than meta-arguing about it on the internet. If it’s not that bad, it can be addressed with a calm mind and a clear head instead. People’s feelings are their feelings, no one is going to take them away. But it is one thing to take a situation seriously and it is another thing to be stuck in high cortisol for extended periods of time long past when it was supposed to drop normally; that is what prolonged anxiety is, it is not simply motivation or something.
As my therapist has probably explained to me multiple times, in a literal in-the-moment crisis, anxiety serves a purpose. The fight/flight/freeze style response kicks in and you act before reflecting. Outside of crisis, it is a drain on one’s health for them to be stuck in that mode with high cortisol levels. So, to reiterate, if it’s at the point of actual crisis, the last priority is arguing on the internet. If it’s not, take a breather and then tackle it with a clear head.
That said, if you read this and decide you still want to insist on anxiety in some way, then please leave me alone about it. I’m never going to agree that anxiety is a healthy response outside of actual crisis. It is a crippling and exhausting thing to deal with that I’m trying to unlearn for years now and I don’t want to hear more rationalizations that I’ve dealt with in my own head for much of my life.