Often I hear the sentence "The human brain isn’t designed to process all of the world’s breaking emergencies in realtime."

I agree with that. But I disagree with the conclusions that some people draw from that.

It doesn't mean to not care about *anything* anymore and to ignore *every* emergeny. In other words, to not have any empathy (except very selective empathy at most).

Evolution hasn't caught up with the globalized world in which we now live in, so much is true. You personally cannot fix *all* the emergencies of which we hear every day:

- the attack on Iran
- the genocide in Palestine
- the war in Ukraine
- the war in Sudan
- the murders in Minnesota
- the increasing surveillance and attacks on privacy
- the destruction of the environment
- etc.

You'd quickly burn out if you tried to simultaneously do something about *all* of these emergencies. Since our brains haven't evolved for that, you need to pick *one* emergency and dedicate yourself to that one emergency.

Not giving a shit about *anything* that needs to be addressed and just focusing on happy things because "the human brain isn't designed for caring about emergencies" is a bad stance and the wrong conclusion to draw from the quoted fact.

#myth #misinformation #ignorance