These aren’t conscious decisions people are making. It’s baked into our chemical systems (read thinking fast and slow for some more context). Millions of years

These aren’t conscious decisions people are making. It’s baked into our chemical systems (read thinking fast and slow for some more context). Millions of years of survival instincts don’t go away overnight. We are wired to pay more attention to negative things so we don’t get eaten. That wiring is exploited at scale in ways we never dreamed of. Even in the days before the internet, nightly news crews knew: if it bleeds, it leads.