Doomscrolling Isn’t Inherently Bad
I can pin the very moment I first realized I was “doomscrolling.” It was March 2020, a turning point in many of our young lives, and one where the only path forward I saw was ignoring the state of the world outside my room. The doom lay in the fact that I did not think […]
Doomscrolling Is Inherently Bad
Throughout the overwhelming majority of human history, our knowledge acquisition faced meaningful spatial and temporal constraints. In prehistory, human knowledge was limited to communal memory and oral traditions. In early civilization, the accumulation of information expanded with the innovation of the written word stored on clay tablets. Accessing their extant knowledge, however, remained an arduous […]