I think it's deeply related to social signaling. "things to be concerned about" includes almost nothing that impacts their immediate lives. it's "things to talk to my peers about and feign authentic concern about".
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but it is time wasting. the media attention i mean. it would be much better to just silently allow progress on :culture war issue of your choice: and not make a social signaling game out of it. we seem to have lost much of the ability to discourse on things that matter.
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