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by naravara
803 days ago
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In the past people who were mostly disinterested in politics and news simply didn’t watch/read the news. Now the news finds them and they don’t have enough of an understanding of civics, economics, and history or the emotional coping mechanisms to know what to do with it. It’s not that they were fully ignorant of the news in the past, but people used to get most of their “takes” and opinions from like, a weekly editorial column or Sunday paper or something that would sort of bubble up through various cultural filtering mechanisms. By the time it got to your typical 17 year old it has already gone through a “processing mechanism” where it’s been analyzed, contextualized, better understood. They’re not getting the messy information in raw form. Now they get the raw information as it happens, and often bubbling up from agenda driven activists instead of disinterested analysts. Consequently, everything has a heavy emotional charge and is specifically geared to short circuit the rational mechanisms for understanding things and hit you in the lizard brain. The lizard brain is good for quick thinking and rapid reactions, but it’s not very good at emotional regulation, priority setting, or any of the other stuff that’s conducive to mental health. |
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https://cos.northeastern.edu/news/its-time-to-correct-neuros...