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My pet theory is that a lot of the apathy comes down to modern outrage clickbait media. There's a new OMG HORRIBLE NEWS EVERYTHING IS FALLING DOWN AND LIFE AS W
by Swizec 9y ago
My pet theory is that a lot of the apathy comes down to modern outrage clickbait media. There's a new OMG HORRIBLE NEWS EVERYTHING IS FALLING DOWN AND LIFE AS WE KNOW IT IS OVER FOREVER emergency seemingly every day. They milk it for a day or two, sometimes a week, then they find something new.
When everything is important and urgent, nothing is.
- dang 9y agoCould you please not use all caps for emphasis? It's basically yelling, and the site guidelines specifically ask you not to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Swizec 9y agoBut I was demonstrating that the media is yelling at us. Making it look like yelling was intentional. I didn’t know HN had guidelines specifically disallowing all forms of yelling.