My personal notes for Screaming Into The Void: How Outrage Is Hijacking Our Culture, and Our Minds
From Hidden Brain, a podcast by Shankar Vedantam, Parth Shah, Tara Boyle and Rhaina Cohen
You can stand up and be super outraged about something national, but if you really want to have an impact, go pick up litter near the intersection by your house, or go work at an animal shelter. There are things we can do every day that improve our lives and the lives of people around us, but they don’t give us that drug of having a hot take spread around social media.
We tell ourselves, “We’re just being good citizens by keeping up on the news,” but we’re really just entertaining ourselves, at a great expense to our society.