Yeah to the extent there’s an upside to the news being terrible, it does make it easier to just give up reading it! I did kinda the same thing after the 2016 election. Literally just didn’t read the news for six months. I just wish I could make myself find a more sustainable middle ground.
I had an experience back in May, when the SCOTUS Dobbs decision dropped, and I said to myself, “I have no desire to read all the screeching on social media today.” So I stayed off, and I was so overwhelmed by the immediate sense of peace that I just never went back. Once I realized how much the benefits of staying away outweighed the benefits of logging on, it wasn’t even hard. Wrote a bit about it here: https://luketharrington.substack.com/p/i-took-a-break-from-social-media
So absolutely based, and I don’t just mean that as a pithy quip. I really just agree with your perspective on this matter, albeit I particularly hold contempt for social media in general haha.
Yeah to the extent there’s an upside to the news being terrible, it does make it easier to just give up reading it! I did kinda the same thing after the 2016 election. Literally just didn’t read the news for six months. I just wish I could make myself find a more sustainable middle ground.
I had an experience back in May, when the SCOTUS Dobbs decision dropped, and I said to myself, “I have no desire to read all the screeching on social media today.” So I stayed off, and I was so overwhelmed by the immediate sense of peace that I just never went back. Once I realized how much the benefits of staying away outweighed the benefits of logging on, it wasn’t even hard. Wrote a bit about it here: https://luketharrington.substack.com/p/i-took-a-break-from-social-media
So absolutely based, and I don’t just mean that as a pithy quip. I really just agree with your perspective on this matter, albeit I particularly hold contempt for social media in general haha.