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I feel the same way about pretty much everything and anything related to any type of news. Whether it's tech news like this, environmental news, or political ne
by bluetidepro 7y ago
I feel the same way about pretty much everything and anything related to any type of news. Whether it's tech news like this, environmental news, or political news. It's the same thing over and over, as you described. Incident, Twitter/media coverage/hype, blame, lies, apologies, and then it's not talked about again a week later. Sigh.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 7y agoThe president's new outrageous tweet / orange man = bad, another wedding blown up in some middle eastern country, someone famous said something inappropriate / groped someone that got them fired, earthquake/fire/tsunami wiped out a few thousand people in some distant land, another school got shot up, "clear signs we're in a bubble" and the market is about to crash, something generic about Silicon Valley's hubris, something about how another oppressed group is being screwed over etc etc. I don't think we're really meant as a species for this constant stream of depressing information we can't act upon, it's not good for us. Apathy seems like the only natural response to this barrage of stressors.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoHad an annual checkup recently and did a screening for anxiety/depression. It felt unrealistic - is it a problem with me to be "Worrying 'too much' about different things"?
- solstice 7y agoA small counterpoint to your last point: the youngsters at Fridays for future and the folks of Extinction rebellion
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 7y agoI actually believe that the present and the future are bright. Pinker's last book does a great job at showing how we're all simply victims of recency/availability/selection/confirmation bias when consuming the news. The world is getting dramatically better, it's our perception of it that is getting constantly worse.