and death threats sent. No one was leaving their couch, but everyone was afraid.

I was doing everything I could think of to defect from the state of overwhelm and consumption that had become my

Faced with a sudden glut of information, cognitive biases cause the modern mind to overthink and underthink the wrong things.

The attempts I made to get out of my own head were sundry and full of nonsense.

“Women, who are objects of simultaneous worship and disgust in the public eye, become both victim and villain.”

A 2014 clinical examination of celebrity worship concluded that high levels of standom are associated with psychological difficulties, including “concerns about body image… greater proneness to cosmetic surgery, sensation-seeking, cognitive rigidity, identity diffusion, and poor interpersonal boundaries.” Among other observed struggles were

In 1980, only about 25 percent of U.S. citizens trusted the government to do the right thing anymore. According to Grose, that’s when the boundaries separating media figures, politicians, and spiritual authorities dissolved for good.

Taylor of using allyship as an aesthetic… and they get mad at her for not doing what they want… but she’s a capitalist to her core. Most of her security team is ex–Special Forces, ex-FBI, or other former law enforcement officers. I’m not sure why fans expect her to be all, ‘Defund the police! Tear down the system that made my dream come true.’…

No one was leaving their couch, but everyone was afraid.