cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23716018
Outrage Fatigue Is Real. Here’s Why We Feel It and How to Cope
Repeated exposure to outrage-inducing news or events can lead to emotional exhaustion. An expert who studies online outrage says there are ways to cope
You’re probably feeling it: the onslaught of depressing news and commentary about political actions, wars, climate disasters and more. The first few times you’re exposed to a perceived injustice, you feel fired up and ready to fight against it. But after being repeatedly facing this moral assault, you start to feel fatigued, even withdrawn. Resistance feels futile.
This phenomenon is informally referred to as “outrage fatigue.”
Doubt that media agencies want people in an state of doing something useful. Whatever state people are put into when seeing news is quite probably not a good state for actually changing things.