I find it very hard to be overwhelmed with hate/anger by things that are not happening directly to me, to be honest. As much as global warming is bad, Africa is a hellhole, and I find that 75% of all people I meet end up infuriating me in one way or another (it's gotten better, I hang out in a nice echo chamber-type crowd), I have things that I have got to do. Nah. Distancing is a reasonable coping mechanism in this situation. You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of others. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Because you feel powerless to do anything else? What, can you not do charitable work or something?I know to live as a human is to suffer, and that it is my attachment that causes the pain, but detaching from the world around me and not caring that any of this is going on seems elitist, short minded, and cruel.
My heart breaks, and it breaks because I love, and deeply. What do I do? When I've meditated on these things I end up at suicide or full open revolution.