So I’m trying to kick a bad doomscrolling habit I’ve developed around political news specifically. I’d like to find a balance between “constant low-grade desensitized misery from watching a burning world” (where I’m at now) and “ignorant bliss indifference interspersed with periodic shock followed by deep depression at how bad it’s gotten” (how I ended up when I tried to cut out the news completely in the past).
How do you handle this?
Some ideas I’ve found so far:
- Curate your news sources. What are some sources for US/Global politics that aren’t totally doompilled, but also don’t shy away from scary/inconvenient topics like the collapse of US democracy or the genocide in Gaza?
- Limit news intake. How do you manage this, when every outlet is doing their utmost to make you click on article after article, video after video? And how do you fight the internal impulse to doomscroll?
Any other ideas?
Why don’tcha doomscroll some history. Particularly history where nazism was overcome by the allies, or where people trapped in religious theocracies were set free.
Also crazy thought: DO something about it.