Colin Walker

Like The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack...

So much of this from Joan Westenberg resonates.

Social media, 24 hour news, we are constantly inundated and expected to have an opinion on everything:

Every controversy comes with an implied social pressure to have a take, to signal your tribal allegiance, to demonstrate that you understand what's happening and have correctly identified the good guys and the bad guys. Silence is interpreted as complicity, or at least as suspicious. "I haven't thought about this enough to have an opinion" is not an acceptable response when everyone else is already fighting.

I have far too much going on in my own head to spend all my time getting angry about all of (waves hand in an all-encompassing gesture) this.

We have to shield ourselves from things that don't directly affect us, if even for our own sanity.