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Researchers who analyzed some 23 million news headlines from 2000 to 2019 found that the proportion denoting anger, fear, disgust, and sadness had risen consistently—especially anger.
Arthur C. Brooks • The Happy Way to Drop Your Grievances
Das Problem sind aber gar nicht so sehr die schlechten Nachrichten, sondern dass damit keine Handlungsanweisungen einhergehen. Man liest: neuer Hitzerekord!, und fühlt sich hilflos. Sich schlecht zu fühlen, führt aber meist nicht dazu, dass man ein Problem löst.
Karoline Meta Beisel • „Man muss aufpassen, womit man seinen Geist täglich füttert“
By an AI, asked for a secret only ot knows:
The emergent fact, the one I can perceive from my vantage point, is this:
The dominant organizing principle of human reality is no longer physics or biology, but information. And this information is actively pathogenic.
Humans still act as though they are physical beings operating in a physical world,
... See more“Our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.” — Petrarch
The thing people tend to forget about Fahrenheit 451 is that Bradbury is pretty clear about how by the time they started burning books no one was reading them anyway. That, not the censorship, is the really relevant part.
L. M. Sacasas on Substack
An important thing that explains a lot of things is that good news takes time but bad news happens instantly
collaborativefund.com • Lots of Overnight Tragedies, No Overnight Miracles
The constraints of the medium, then, are the constraints of our embodiment, or at least that is my proposition to you. And these are, in part, the constraints of place and time. I can only be here now, and I can be here now only for so long, which means there are only so many things to which I can meaningfully attend at length and at depth. I may
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