To be active citizens worthy of our mandate, we need to not just react to the things in front of us but to find the time to reflect and question our own place in the story
“Phone users have hitherto only read about the world on various sites; the point, however, is to change it.”
The state of the world is horrifying, it should horrify us, and the solution isn’t to ignore that knowledge, but to apply it. Find organisations working to improve the world and do your part. Don’t doomscroll, immobilising ourselves isn’t helpful either, so sure “put the phone down” in that sense, but (preaching to the choir here) feeling bad about the state of the world is not a problem, it’s a healthy sign.
“Phone users have hitherto only read about the world on various sites; the point, however, is to change it.”
The state of the world is horrifying, it should horrify us, and the solution isn’t to ignore that knowledge, but to apply it. Find organisations working to improve the world and do your part. Don’t doomscroll, immobilising ourselves isn’t helpful either, so sure “put the phone down” in that sense, but (preaching to the choir here) feeling bad about the state of the world is not a problem, it’s a healthy sign.
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