Is There a Crisis of Seriousness?
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Sometimes, things are serious. Not everything needs to be turned into a joke. As Anhedönia said, we can still make jokes and laugh, but we’ve lost the ability to know when to stop – and it’s time we learned how.
Halima Jibril • Ethel Cain says we are in an irony epidemic – is she right?
I’m convinced that we’re suffering from an ‘imaginary crisis’. By this, I don’t mean that the various crises around us aren’t real, but rather that there’s a deep malaise affecting our capacity for imagination, whether social or political.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
But when everything is a crisis, and when all our lives are spent in one crisis or another, what that really means is that nothing is. We have put our words on steroids and amped the language up so high that unless we communicate in overdrive and hyperbole, we believe—perhaps correctly—that nobody will hear us. In the process, we’ve sacrificed nuan
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I’m convinced that we’re suffering from an ‘imaginary crisis’. By this, I don’t mean that the various crises around us aren’t real, but rather that there’s a deep malaise affecting our capacity for imagination, whether social or political.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
How serious can it be if it happens all the time? Isn’t the definition of a serious event based on the fact that it’s not an everyday occurrence?
Don DeLillo • White Noise
“crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.”
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
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