For those say in their 60s or 70s here. When you were in your 30’s or 40’s did you have the feeling that the world was a fucked up place? So much has been going on since I entered adulthood in the early 2000s and I feel like it’s getting more and more intense. It’s never ending.
Is it unique? Or has it always been this way?
The world is just as fucked up as it ever was. The only difference now is that every fucked-up thing that ever happens anywhere is getting pushed to your always-on doomscroll device in real time with people attaching their mostly ignorant opinions to it.
This is where the “touch grass” advice comes into play. In broad terms, the real world is not nearly the hellhole social media portrays it to be.
My always-on doomscroll device’s weather app today told me about an aviation accident that killed two people in another country
I just wanted to know if the snow was going to let up, why am I getting international news of death and dismemberment?
I’d get a new weather app that only shows the weather. If you’re on Android, try BreezyWeather (F-Droid link).
The F-Droid (“freenet”) one
onlymainly uses OpenMeteo as the source (which is pretty good) but the releases on Github offer additional sources. Not sure why there’s a discrepancy, but I use the Github release and Accuweather as the source. YMMV which gives the best results for your area, but I often wasn’t getting severe weather alerts with OpenMeteo.