As the world gets crazier, people consume more news about it. I'd been talking to a smarter person than myself about this topic, and he observed that the causal

As the world gets crazier, people consume more news about it. I'd been talking to a smarter person than myself about this topic, and he observed that the causality may be in the other direction. That idea makes some sense. I know that, in my life, worrying too much and too intensely about something makes me edgy and drive me down cul-de-sacs. It's not unbelievable to me that something like that could happen on the scale of a whole culture, and if it did, it might look a lot like the world we're living in.