Even if you just consume the correct media, no fake news and no tiktok brain melting dopamine rush content, you still find out more about the world and what’s going wrong by two clicks. Be it the climate catastrophe, carcinogenic food and materials, war going on or simple economy crisis. That’s all my grandparents didn’t have to read or to deal with in such an excessive way. Large news made it the tv news and local issues never had this huge impact on their lives. Print was slow and compacted.

You could say ignorance is a bliss. Now add all the dopamine killers and you get a toxic cocktail, that our brain can’t handle. We jump from one extreme to the other and can hardly escape it.

The only solution is a healthy abstinence from most news for most of the day, activities counteracting bad events (like community work or going into politics) and avoiding all dopamine rush things. I bet we could also make school (and later work) feel less shit, so we’re less inclined into counteracting by indulging into bad habits.

There’s a lot of pressure on young people and we’ve yet to gasp this. The first generation who had to deal with all of this at once, are only approaching their 30s. Give it another 30 and they might be into the positions to effect things for the better. But I see at least 3 more decades of things getting worse.