There is a difference between being aware and being continually exposed. A daily news update is enough for the former. I don't see how constantly scrolling the news in Israel helps anyone who is there. If anything, being inundated with images makes us feel helpless and paralyzed and less likely to act.
There is a difference between being aware and being continually exposed. A daily news update is enough for the former. I don't see how constantly scrolling the news in Israel helps anyone who is there. If anything, being inundated with images makes us feel helpless and paralyzed and less likely to act.
Obviously it's a matter of degree, so to claim I am recommending continual exposure or constant scrolling avoids the point. It's a bit chilling that the term is "cost of care." There should be a cost of caring. My worry is that such recommendations as this essay's, which are couched in terms of degree, become interpreted in terms of kind: as a sanction to turn inward and ignore, all sanctified by the overarching need for self-care. Especially when the resting state, as far as I can tell, is denial--of things that will kill us all, like carbon, nuclear weapons, rising fascism around the world, inevitable pandemics that could easily be far worse than the awful Covid.
The only hope is clear-eyed facing of reality and collective action.
There is a difference between being aware and being continually exposed. A daily news update is enough for the former. I don't see how constantly scrolling the news in Israel helps anyone who is there. If anything, being inundated with images makes us feel helpless and paralyzed and less likely to act.
Obviously it's a matter of degree, so to claim I am recommending continual exposure or constant scrolling avoids the point. It's a bit chilling that the term is "cost of care." There should be a cost of caring. My worry is that such recommendations as this essay's, which are couched in terms of degree, become interpreted in terms of kind: as a sanction to turn inward and ignore, all sanctified by the overarching need for self-care. Especially when the resting state, as far as I can tell, is denial--of things that will kill us all, like carbon, nuclear weapons, rising fascism around the world, inevitable pandemics that could easily be far worse than the awful Covid.
The only hope is clear-eyed facing of reality and collective action.