Stop reading the news. The incentives lead to amplification of negative narratives and the unhealthy feeling that you are responsible for or able to respond to

Stop reading the news. The incentives lead to amplification of negative narratives and the unhealthy feeling that you are responsible for or able to respond to every bad thing in the world. It is a mental health crisis. If you stop reading the news and discover that you and the people around you are mostly happy and you are able to ease their suffering and help them find joy, them you've found the way to live. The nagging feeling that we must each, individually, fix the world is masochistic arrogance. It's a shame that there's so much money to be made promoting it.