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The president's new outrageous tweet / orange man = bad, another wedding blown up in some middle eastern country, someone famous said something inappropriate /
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c 7y ago
The 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.