The world has always been ending, in one way or another. What’s different now is how we metabolize that knowledge, how we carry it with us through our days. The solution isn’t to look away from difficult truths, but to learn to see them clearly — to distinguish between actionable information and algorithmic amplification, between genuine concern and manufactured outrage.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-doomscroll-industrial-complex-how-anxiety-became-a-business-model/

The Doomscroll Industrial Complex: How Anxiety Became a Business Model

We need to talk about the doomers and the attention economy they’ve built. Not because they’re entirely wrong — from climate change to political extremism, a lot of their concerns are valid — but because they’ve created something extraordinary: a perpetual motion machine powered by anxiety. Let’s call

westenberg.

@Daojoan My favorite quote on this comes from Joanna Russ’s (EXTRA)ORDINARY PEOPLE: “What makes you think the world’s ever been saved? But that’s too grim.”

(Not, I think, inducement to despair but a call to righteous and effective _collective_ organizing)