As Americans, we need to know what’s happening so we can act. But that doesn’t mean constant online immersion
The threat of a world war. Political assassinations. Federal raids on unsuspecting migrants.
There seems to be no end to terrifying news these days. In fact, it comes at us so unceasingly that numbness can set in. Or even depression or melancholy, like a black cloud over every part of our lives.
The “gloomcycle” is what Rachel Janfaza, who founded the gen Z-oriented site known as the Up and Up, has dubbed what’s going on. In a recent piece, she quoted one 23-year-old from Alabama: “I am really overwhelmed by all of the bad news I am seeing right now.”
Whatever generation we’re from, that’s a familiar sensation.
