• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Like someone following you around with a megaphone occasionally screaming “fire!” or “oh God the baby!”.

    We are getting desensitized to the constant one up penmanship of panic and need higher and higher levels to even register. Go watch Faux News some time. It puts a bunch of 8 year old ADHD boys watching an action cartoon while sipping sugary lattes to shame.

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      9 months ago

      If you would have gone back 50 years and said, hey, selling ads on the news is going to be a key part of the unraveling of society as we know it, they would have put you in the loony bin, but here we are.