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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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    If I weren’t a blogger I probably would have left social media in the last year. An interesting challenge if your work requires you to stay in public info spaces is that you have to choose between believing you’re going crazy or that the culture wars are real, with real PTSD

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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        A) “I have anxiety/FUD, it’s only Twitter not bullets, so I must be a precious snowflake” B) “I have anxiety, Twitter is a serious weapon, someone is actively trying to drive up my anxiety/FUD level”

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        Sames

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      1. Jiri Prajzner‏ @dr3dwerkz 5 Mar 2018
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        Culture is the real enemy

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      1. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 5 Mar 2018
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        You're not crazy. Shit's fucked. I've got suggestions for rational countermeasures, if you're interested. They're more useful for a techie than a blogger, but there may be overlap.

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      1. madFrog‏ @_madFrog 5 Mar 2018
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        About time you revisited the eastern philosophies I can’t help but see anxiety as the next big epidemic of the west, especially for the liberal kinds

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      2. David Aron Levine‏ @davealevine 5 Mar 2018
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        Or: develop evolutionarily advanced tools like meditation and other coping mechanisms to live in this more raw way.

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      3. Balázs Kégl‏ @balazskegl 6 Mar 2018
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        Again, that's how you get India

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      2. Abe Stanway‏ @abestanway 5 Mar 2018
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        Third option: just stay heads down, continue to find signal in noise, and realize that almost nothing on the internet is worth getting truly angry/anxious about

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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        That’s what they want you to do. Cede public spaces. Individually it may be low cost, collectively it’s basically giving up the polity to info invaders. Like saying, just stay indoors, keep home clean, street trash not worth getting worked up about. That’s how you get India.

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      2. Brad Urani‏ @bradurani 6 Mar 2018
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        I don't believe you. You're a full blown @twitter addict. Couldn't stop if you wanted to

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      3. Brandon Hudgeons‏ @bhudgeons 6 Mar 2018
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        He would rage-quit for two weeks though.

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