All that stuff is still happening whether you see it on your “nightmare rectangle” or not. Sticking your head in the sand doesn’t make the nightmare end
But what are you going to do about it right at this moment? Presumably if you’re like me you already know who you’re going to vote for, or at least certainly who you’re not voting for. Anything major will pop up in some feed somewhere so you don’t have to listen to whatever dumb shit Trump said on Tuesday.
I get a daily digest from NPR and that’s enough. A 15 minute browse then I’m done with the “news” for the day.
What can you personally do about what’s going on in Gaza? Can you personally assist the people who died in the flooding in Nepal?
If the answer to those questions is ‘no’, then what value is there in actively sticking your face into the biting nest of news all day long?
We didn’t evolve to be able to tolerate that. At best, we’re able to comprehend the struggles of maybe 100 people around us. Not the entire planet’s worth of hardship.
All that stuff is still happening whether you see it on your “nightmare rectangle” or not. Sticking your head in the sand doesn’t make the nightmare end
But what are you going to do about it right at this moment? Presumably if you’re like me you already know who you’re going to vote for, or at least certainly who you’re not voting for. Anything major will pop up in some feed somewhere so you don’t have to listen to whatever dumb shit Trump said on Tuesday.
I get a daily digest from NPR and that’s enough. A 15 minute browse then I’m done with the “news” for the day.
Yeah but what good’s all this tech for if you can’t reduce your own mental state by force feeding yourself doom
What can you personally do about what’s going on in Gaza? Can you personally assist the people who died in the flooding in Nepal?
If the answer to those questions is ‘no’, then what value is there in actively sticking your face into the biting nest of news all day long?
We didn’t evolve to be able to tolerate that. At best, we’re able to comprehend the struggles of maybe 100 people around us. Not the entire planet’s worth of hardship.