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One way of conquering FOMO is to totally write the thing off, and to stubbornly stick to that thesis.
by omarfarooq 5y ago
One way of conquering FOMO is to totally write the thing off, and to stubbornly stick to that thesis.
- lukebitts 5y agoQuestioning people's motives is always a boring endeavor. You don't actually know that's the reason, why not respond to the arguments that were made?
- omarfarooq 5y agoLet me qualify my initial comment. I have conquered [and seen others close to me] FOMO by stubbornly writing things off, and I suspect others have done the same thing: it's calorically inexpensive and cognitively frictionless. No one can reasonably assess everything that comes their way. I am not saying that that's the reason with the writer, but it's surely the reason in some people, precisely because it's easy. And easier still to click upvote on a take that reinforces that stubbornness. It's this latter group whose motives are being questioned, as per the GP who asked why these takes get upvoted. I wasn't actually questioning the motive of the writer of the article, hence why I didn't engage in the arguments in the first place. And of course you have the corollary of true believers who will support anything positive of X-thing-they-have-adopted. It's seems to be only these two dichotomies we see, rarely balanced takes. And that's the real problem.