I did not enter Schengen? We are guilty! Are you procrastinating? guilty Reverse? Guilty! Do you believe in fake news? Guilty! Do you believe the news? Guilty! Are you wasting food? Guilty! Not cheap beef! Life is the biggest polluter in the world! Guilty! Are you a carnivore? Guilty! Don’t waste water! Stop taking a “bath”, take a shower. Don’t waste electricity! Do not leave: computer, telephone, any devices in the outlet. Get your hybrid car if you have a petrol or diesel. Switch to second-hand! What big manufacturers spend. Leave new whims. Do you have 2 houses? Take the tax. do you have money Tax! Don’t you have money? tax. Are you not helping Ukrainians? why don’t you help Vinen! you help Vinen! “You were a cow, you got your vaccine!” Guilty! aren’t you Guilty! And many grievances have gathered in this year, 2022, the year of our guilt.

Schengen

The Austrians are to blame. They think it’s fake news: we’re transporting tons of migration. Not true, we say! It’s true! – they say. The Austrians don’t want us in Schengen, it’s their own fault! Not us! Not us. That’s a denial of guilt, isn’t it? But the flip side also creeps into the public discourse: are we all to blame? Me, you, those who ate swans in Vienna in 1990. Yes, yes, yes, they are all guilty. The guilt is collective.

Pandemic

For three years we have been living in a state of war of ideas. The pandemic has especially emphasized this binomial: what is true? What is a lie? Radicalization and absolute confidence were unequivocal for us. Let’s take the idea of ​​“Covid is real. I got vaccinated!” For several months now, the pandemic has not been in the official Romanian discourse. And not through social networks. This led to the relative: It was or it was not! And when such relativization occurs, the main language becomes: “Well, you were stupid! You surrendered to the Farm and got vaccinated.” And when you remember that your friends died, you realize: they were dying anyway! Or due to the blocking of hospitals with patients with COVID, they were not saved.” You are still to blame: that you got vaccinated, that you believed in Kovid. The list of those responsible for the murder is even spreading on social networks.

Guilty of the war in Ukraine

In 2022, war was another big crime. Here, it all started not with the suppression of the dominant discourse, as in the case of the pandemic, but with a focus on bodily integrity, on survival. A howl of fear. The war is approaching, we must stop wasting water (remember the idea of ​​taking a shower in two or three?). The war is coming, it is not pleasant to eat so much! Why are you wasting the planet’s resources: gasoline, electricity, gas, water. Didn’t you feel guilty? I agree! But the more I procrastinated, the more teeth fell out in bills. The stupidity of those in power to let go of price liberalization without any prior preparation has plunged us into chaos. Fear and chaos. Guilt on top of everything. A conflicting state, a tense situation that the poor man could not resolve. There is chaos all around – no one protects us from war, prices, energy companies. It’s my fault you don’t cut costs so quickly.

Fault. You are executed in public, and it penetrates your soul

Anyone who looks at the tons of information that came with the war (but started before the pandemic) simply sees that guilt is connected to public awfulness, that is, freedom of choice. And guilt creeps into your bed, so to speak. Guilt is not only part of public discourse, it affects your life at home: how much you eat, how much you drink, how much water you use, what the carbon footprint of your food is.

The culprit is Holy

I read and didn’t know whether to laugh or cry that even the sarmals had a carbon footprint this year and it’s disgusting. Did I eat Sarmales? No, we consumed at the expense of the world’s carbon footprint. I then read about the holidays as stress. I am guilty of eating quite a lot. It’s my fault for not holding back. I am guilty of allowing myself to become a victim of pleasure, holidays. I’m guilty. I’m guilty of being single, even though Coca Cola and all show us it’s a family event. It is my fault that I did not donate, did not give to the poor. I’m guilty, – say social networks, mass media, – and children, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, wives – everyone who worries about the fate of the world, everyone lives online more than me – start talking. And isn’t it, it causes stress. This gives reasons for war in the family. If you don’t have a family, you will end up in Insta, in Tik Tok.

Consumerism or anti-consumerism

It is clear that this Public Wine is a good thing. This becomes the norm to regulate our sinful brains, global greed. But you seem a little crushed: the whole globe is thinking about your health, imposing rules and threatening you: you better try to follow them. It’s clear that the frenzied insistence with which influencers and the various media impose norms and trends on us makes us very informed, but also very guilty. It suggests absolute illiteracy in terms of our insight, suggests that we are so greedy and blind with our behavior that it must be shouted into our ears, etched into our brains. And here it is clear that we are dealing with war not only during the pandemic or during the war in Ukraine. We are waging a long-standing war against consumerism and against us as citizens of the world. And after sitting for a while and watching the minimalist, anti-consumerists attack, we see that this is a war at the beginning. The priority now is to save the World when its powers are exhausted. And the answer, which makes us guilty again, is meteorology: festive winter in the USA, no snow in Romania. Cows pollute, we eat cows, we contribute to climate change. We buy our computer or phone from harmful materials. Pollution changes the climate. The climate kills our holidays, and the absence of winter brings and keeps viruses in our bodies. But not really, because it’s impossible in America. We are bombarded with evidence from all sides. There is no product on the market that is not useless and at the same time high energy. Therefore, everything we buy creates a feeling of guilt.

Do I have a solution? Guilty of poverty. But he is not poor enough

Where do decisions come from? I am confused by the culprits. And even if I wasn’t confused, I still wouldn’t have any solutions. I behaved well, but not to save the world. After years, decades, of eating pork, I am now ashamed. This year, I’ve been eating crap at neighbors’ places where I’ve been invited, and I’ve got a few slices of cold cuts in the fridge. But it happened because I no longer want to eat a lot of meat. My damned body feels the limit, it tells me that my life as a carnivore has ended with the hunt. But I see myself frantically running around the house to turn off the lights. My accounts are breaking. A year of guilt crept up on me. I find myself stunned by the prices of butter and milk. I look at markets from the back where eggs and chickens are sold “in the dark”, but I don’t know how food safe there is. I buy the cheapest goods in haberdashery and after that I curse myself for how tasteless it is, I see myself forced, what a big deal it is, to get even 2-3 jobs. I feel compelled to put off buying a new pair of boots even though last year I made a pair that was about 6 years old just because I said I didn’t have the money. Yes, I go to bookstores like a temple. I pirate as much as I can from the net. My cell phone is taped because I can’t get a new one. Better a thick coat at home, because I lived the same way as a child, during the time of Ceausescu, and I look like my father. And to make the idea complete, I am surrounded by real poor people every day. How can I not feel guilty that I have more money than them and they are still on the card when I want to help? I may be stingy. I’m careless, I don’t make plans, I don’t have routines. I’m guilty. He is also guilty of all this.

Gaslighting

A Great Little Vacation TRAVEL: A Great Little Vacation Don’t think that this article is just sharing my personal thoughts. no Not all my opinions count. I tried to make a synthesis, to tell a story, to present the world’s thoughts about the year 2022. This is an article about gaslighting (in 2022, gaslighting was a very expensive word – according to Webster’s dictionary). I mean, this is a simplistic article that makes it feel like there is a conspiracy against all of us. One thing can be said for sure: the article tells the story of 2022, one of thousands, millions of stories. If each of us summed up the year 2022, we would see that there are no conspiracies around, only our poverty of words, our inability to tell ourselves stories that choose both good and bad.

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