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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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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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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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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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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Or: develop evolutionarily advanced tools like meditation and other coping mechanisms to live in this more raw way.
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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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