The Toxicity of News
Why Emotional Regulation Is Your Most Powerful Tool In Chaotic Times
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Atrocities pumped into your living room. Horror stories beamed into your pocket. Modern tech brings us together, but it also tears our hearts out. The Media? This is how they make their profits. The powerful? I swear this is how they prefer us. Paralysed and powerless.
Consuming the news is like swimming in sewage outfall. It infects us with hopelessness. It might even kill us.
So why do we do it? We have fundamental need to stay informed. Blame our “social ape” roots. Better know what’s going on. In case you can grab a banana. In case you need to run. And our amygdala, our fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses, are geared for the occasional sabre-tooth tiger, not constant bombardment. No wonder we are all falling ill.1
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