The Endless Doomscroller
I picked up on this last year and what frustrates me is I feel like I can't override the population-level unconscious anxiety and despair that many continue to spread through their behaviors (often being fed by these doomscrolling news narratives).<p>Words can be consciously dismantled in the mind, but actions are subtler and speak something subconsciously...  It's like if you walked up to a pool and everyone was tiptoeing around it and not jumping in.  No matter how fearless you are there's still something deep that triggers your own apprehension.<p>With COVID people are still behaving fearfully and there's nothing I can do about it other than suffer the harvest of ongoing social distancing stupidity, the idiotic glass walls still up in every grocery store, the "contact-less whatever the fuck", the lack of hotel room service... all the 100s of stupid anxiety-driven behaviors and changes that got implemented the past few years that were once never a thing.<p>Ahh whatever, back to doomscrolling.