I am strongly on the side of “the civil war is already happening”. Like, civil cold war, minor skirmishes here and there.
The problem is that it takes two sides to fight a war, and only one side is fighting currently.
The war starts once folks start fighting back.
Please, any and everyone who can, get a gun and learn to use it.
I do not. This is like the core of ADHD executive dysfunction. Stuff only happens in last minute panic mode. Meds help some. Anti-anxiety meds help some too. But I got through college by, frankly, just getting better at doing stuff at the last minute. Same thing that keeps me going in the corporate world.
(The pomodoro technique mentioned by another poster is also good though. It’s not a perfect solution, but in some situations it has helped me get started on something to know “I’m not committing to finishing this, I’m committing to working on it for 25 minutes. Surely I can handle suffering for 25 minutes”)