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No, they just realise it's not productive anymore. It's a time sink that pushes misery and drama into your life without any practical way to do anything about i
by dageshi 4y ago
No, they just realise it's not productive anymore. It's a time sink that pushes misery and drama into your life without any practical way to do anything about it.
I don't think the human mind is designed to absorb all the worlds ills and misery, the news amplifies the worst of what's going on in the world and delivers it to you minute by minute, the only rational way of dealing with it is to either cut it out or become unspeakably cynical about it all.
- ben_w 4y agoI realised a long time ago that even shedding merely a single tear every time an evil deed is done would lead to dying of dehydration in one's sleep. I mostly try to cut out the news, but the options are not limited to just cutting it out or becoming cynical: an ex went into politics with a genuine desire to make the world right. She is (or was) Green Party (US), so not making much progress, but it is at least a different path. I definitely agree our minds aren't fit for this world: more people online than heartbeats in our lifetimes, combined with a psychology that treats a list of more than 7-ish items as infinite.