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How much attention should we pay to the bad things that are happening around the world?
There’s a strange balance of obligation we have to society: many of the things happening globally will not impact our lives directly, but they do impact our mental health and wellbeing.
I have found this tension present whenever I open a news app or fall into a social feed: I am newly informed about the world, but I am also anxious, despondent, acutely unhappy.
In my book Outrage Machine I wrote of the civic value in reading the news: It’s where we go to give democracy the focus it deserves — the attention…
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