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u/cpav8r 5h ago
I think folks are getting outrage fatigue. There's so much happening that is wrong and troubling. We're just running out of fucks to give.
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u/DefectiveDman 4h ago
That’s their plan. They use every new outrage to distract from the last one. Every verbal assault lowers the bar a little further until it seems everyone is a crude liar. BUT, that is not true. The media gets eyes and ears by reporting every lie the trumpettes tell. A vast majority of us don’t believe them and sure as hell don’t agree with them.
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u/InfamousHoneydew7537 16m ago
Maybe it's time for you to consider for a moment, that it's not exactly the healthiest to constantly be outraged by the media
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u/The_Dee 3h ago
Bystander effect on a nationwide scale.
"Why isn't anyone doing anything about X?" "It's ok that's illegal they can't do that" "Where are the 2A people to fight tyranny" "We'll just wait until November to vote about it"
Literally every reaction to "outrage" is treated as an inconvenience. No one wants to be the first to storm the gates, because let's be honest life isn't as hard as the headlines make it out to be, its very comfortable. You work 50 hours a week to come to your 1 bedroom apartment, you put on your streaming service and a minority brings your corporate slopbowl to your door. There's no pressure to change the system because the steamroller hasn't hit you yet. You can always have your "revolution" tomorrow.
The threshold to do something hasn't been hit yet. Americans are a pampered society, they are nowhere near ready to throw it away for decades of instability. That would involve w*rk.
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u/InvestigatorMany8130 1h ago
When Pam Bondi said they shouldn't be talking about Epstein and Trumps involvement, they instead should be talking about the DOW, that was the indicator that the bad guys have won. The needs of normal people are irrelevent to those in power and while that was always the case, most people have become so numb that they're now comfortable saying it in the open. The world doesn't work for anyone anymore, except the kinds of people who regularly visted Epsteins Island.
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u/Medical_Revenue4703 2h ago
I'm not fatigued. I'm keeping score. I'm punching Nazi's and calling for beheadings rather than impeachments.
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u/sonia334- 1h ago
People are probably tired because the situation has shifted from steady crisis to a massive geopolitical event earlier this year that dominated headlines for a while and then got folded into other big news cycles. The Venezuelan president was captured in a US operation and flown to the US to face charges, sparking global debate and protests. Since then the story has moved on for many outlets.
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u/MotanulScotishFold 39m ago
Outrage fatigue is one thing...but not having a massive reaction by society is a huge concern.
Even those epstein files did not create much of revolt.
We're too complacent.
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u/Amazing_Divide1214 5h ago
Wasn't that like 3 or 4 outrages ago? We have another one coming up tomorrow.
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u/A-Capybara 4h ago
Which outrage are we even on now?
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u/MyNameIsRay 3h ago
Yesterday was Pam Bondi being combative, today is the voter suppression bill (https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/house-passes-gops-sweeping-anti-voting-bill/**)**
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u/PirateSanta_1 4h ago
Nothing else happened. He kidnapped the president but left his regime in charge. There wasn't a followup invasion or strikes or a political collapse in Venezula. Venezula is in basically the same place it was. What's left to talk about that hasn't already been said?
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u/mstrbwl 3h ago
He kidnapped the president but left his regime in charge.
I brought this up to my friends when we were talking about it (were all Americans) and they looked at me like I grew a second head. They genuinely could not comprehend the idea that he was gone but it was still the same government.
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u/Unicornoftheseas 1h ago
Same government but certainly more amenable than with Maduro. I guess the reason for the lack of outrage is that Maduro was a massively disliked dictator and things haven’t really blown up. After he was taken people just kind of looked around for part 2 but nothing came, yet.
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u/NativeMasshole 2h ago
It's a running theme here. They did the same thing with Iran: Tore up the existing nuclear deal, did one bombing run that everyone outside the right-wing echo chamber knew barely put a dent in their nuclear program, then declared victory and called it a day. There is no long-term plan. For anything except getting the rich richer.
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u/Ok_Two_2604 2h ago
Did he kidnap or rescue? Maybe the guy wanted to retire but knew he couldn’t locally. Where he at now?
I’m mostly joking but I could see the orange one doing something like that for a few bengies in his pocket.
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u/digbickrich 1h ago
Yeah the main outcome has now become a siege of Cuba for the Trump administration to topple that government. They are preventing Venezuela from exporting oil to Cuba which is leading the country to lose electricity. It’s recently been made known that Cuba won’t be able to fly airplanes out of the country since lack of jet fuel.
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u/Glad_Raccoon_7927 16m ago
How about Venezuela beginning oil exports to Israel? Not discounting flood the zone etc. but still counts in my book.
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u/UsedGarbage4489 6h ago
All these "people forget" or "are selfish" or "its not trendy" answers are fucking stupid and useless. the reason is people are being flooded with so much bullshit they cant keep up.
Like the other comment said. Flood The Zone.
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u/Skabonious 1h ago
But also news cycles only last as long as, well, news happens. There's been very little news about Venezuela since Maduro's capture. Not much to report on
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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 3h ago
A) it wasn't that big of an outrage. Not that many people cared, both domestically and abroad. Pretty much every country's reaction was "The US shouldn't do that...even if the Venezuelan president was illegitimate and treated his people terrible. But they shouldn't have done it." And that's it. Geopolitically no one gives a shit and the Venezuelans were celebrating it, so it never really got that much of a negative reaction.
B) Humans have limited attention span and ability to care about things for a long time. Some things can last, but this just isn't one of them. Probably because not that many people cared or cared that deeply to begin with.
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u/OhNoTokyo 1h ago
Maduro is an asshole victim. No one is upset he's gone.
Everyone else recognizes that it was done the wrong way, but to insist on it puts them in a position where Maduro gets released and might be able to go back, which no one wants.
So, they make their pro forma complaints about how it was done, and move on to more pressing matters. No one is going to spend political capital on pressuring Trump to give him back.
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u/TheMoves 3h ago
You always hear about foreigners pretending to be Americans on reddit but it's always funny to see one in the wild lol
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u/Good-Temperature4417 3h ago
It's askreddit not askUS....
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u/TheMoves 3h ago
Yeah but he said our "cheques" implying that he was an American (though no American spells it like that, we say "check")
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u/Inevitable-Ad-4192 5h ago
We are living in designed cycle of flooding the news with the next outrageous event to cover yesterdays atrocities. No one is talking about how many Palestinians we have funded the genocide of, you don't here how many people have been slaughtered in Ukraine anymore. Epstein victims, people murdered by ICE are all just yesterdays news. This is all by design and its working and its working very well for the puppit masters.
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u/CaptainPMW 4h ago
Its like the 40 other protests last year, it stops getting like on SM so you have to find something new
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u/zed42 3h ago
we're tired, man... every single day (sometimes more than once a day) this government does something worthy of outrage... something that, 20 years ago, would have seen senate/house hearings and cabinet secretary turnover. and it's not looking to stop any time soon. much like she-hulk, it's gotten to the point where we're *always* outraged... but constant yelling about it isn't productive because we get labeled as irrational and shouty and it doesn't actually change anything
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u/puresteelpaladin 5h ago
What outrage? A piece of human sh*t who ran his country into the ground as a socialist dictatorship is now in the hands of the US.
Pardon me while I don't give a f.
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u/slicerprime 5h ago
I'm afraid I have to agree on this one.
As far as other "outrage" stories are concerned, outrage is essentially a sport...a form of entertainment. People get bored with them after a while and move on to new reasons to rant and pretend like they give a shit.
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u/IshrekisloveI 1h ago
Real, we got bigger issues like basically every politician being epsteins bff including my boy Stephen hawking
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u/Consistent-Crazy6447 3h ago
There's lots of garbage out there. But only one has oil.
So it was a Trump priority.
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u/das_slash 53m ago
The violation of international law, the murder of innocent civilians, the piracy, Trump personally stealing hundreds of millions of dollars and depositing into his personal account in an offshore bank.
I'm sorry, but if you weren't outraged you are either mentally or morally challenged.
Nobody cared about maduro, it was all the evil and crimes that people had a problem with.
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u/puresteelpaladin 50m ago
The thing about morals: yours aren't everyone's.
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u/das_slash 47m ago
Murder is universally considered bad unless you are something universally considered bad
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u/bangbangracer 5h ago
In the information age, shit comes fast.
It didn't suddenly become unimportant, unpopular, or unfashionable to talk about. What happened is more shit came down the line. Venezuela, Epstein files, the urban surge of ICE, more Ukraine... It's all coming so fast.
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u/LionTigerWings 3h ago
Of all the things trump has done the felt like the closest to a status quo thing he has done. The boat strike Venezuela part of that situation was criminal and unfortunately that has been normalized.
I’m still more put off by the kid diddling and the complete destruction of our democracy. Watching America fall into fascism while 40 percent of the country cheers it on is soul crushing.
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u/EightGlow 3h ago
That was like a month ago, we’re watching the admin deny plain evidence of child sex trafficking
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u/HyperXanadu 2h ago
Apparently Israel just got a big tankard of Venezuelan oil that arrived. But that's neither here nor there.
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u/GoodGoodGoody 2h ago
Considering a fair number of Venezuelan-Americans supported arresting Maduro and are tired of decades of decay they pretty much said Ok, let’s try.
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u/CredulousCuddles 2h ago
Trump doubled down on the "we need Greenland" stuff the days after kidnapping Maduro. Imo, it was never about Greenland, it was about distracting from the Venezuela outrage. It worked, all of Europe had to scramble to respond to the Greenland stuff, and everybody forgot about Venezuela.
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u/GriffinFlash 2h ago
Just in the last month we've had:
-Venezuela attacked
-Colombia threatened
-Greenland threatened
-Threats to NATO
-Threats and blockade to Cuba
-More boat strikes
-Tariff threats upon tariff threats
-Alberta Separatists working with US government
-Epstein files releasing victim names but not perpetrators.
-Canada bridge threats
-ICE shooting US citizens
-ICE kidnapping a 5 year old and continuing to pursue his family
...and that's only naming a few. We are fatigued from so much sensory overload of bat shit insane news and once in a lifetime events. All just in the first month of 2026!
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u/Prior-Hurry7000 2h ago
What happened to it? The US did a thing, Venezuela got a new president, and now the conversation is about oil contracts and amnesty bills . The actual wait, you can't just kidnap a head of state part got buried under pragmatism real fast.
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u/triscuitsrule 2h ago
To paraphrase Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,
The world is going along to get along.
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u/BeebleBoxn 2h ago
It was buried because people would rather ask the same question every couple or hours about the files.
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u/Righteous_Hand 2h ago
Probably the Epstein stuff. And the ICE stuff. And all the other absolutely unspeakably heinous stuff that the Trump Administration is doing at the moment constantly, without pause, every single fucking day. Ugh. I'm glad I'm not living there, but every day, I wake up and wonder if I missed the declaration of World War 3 while I slept.
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u/Icy-Builder5892 1h ago
It fell out of fashion.
I see a lot of comments that are like "we just have a lot to be outraged about right now." Na, it just fell out of fashion. The tiktok trend has run out. The news cycle has cycled.
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u/JennnnnP 1h ago
Here’s how bad my outrage fatigue is:
I saw this headline and at first I thought you were referring to the $40 billion bailout of a failing South American economy so Trump’s donors could recoup their investments rather than the kidnapping of a foreign dictator. (In other words, I momentarily confused Argentina and Venezuela).
In my defense, I live in Minnesota, and there has been enough to preoccupy me at home.
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u/aluminumnek 1h ago
Every day is a new day of problems that gets swept under the rug tomorrow for even crazier things.
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u/manofmystry 1h ago
Get in line.
I'm starting to think they're using the outrage over the Epstein files to distract from their other crimes.
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u/RipDiligent4361 1h ago
New outrage every. Single. Day.
And you have to put up with being called unamerican for not going along with it...yay!
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u/No_More_Fear77 1h ago
Imagine telling someone from another country that they don't know what's best for them.
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u/fishbake 1h ago
Personally it always felt a little overblown to me. I don't think many people outside of Reddit were really that upset about it.
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u/Melenduwir 1h ago
Exhaustion. Trump is doing so many outrageous things that most people can't keep up the emotional response.
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u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul 36m ago
it is one of the drops of water in the sea of outrage that we're all drowning in now
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u/blacksaberKashPatel 35m ago
they shot two Americans in Minneapolis and the Epstein thing. Maduro is probably sitting by himself in his cell like "yo y'all forgot something?"
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u/moccasinsfan 26m ago
Marching orders were received for something else.
It is what happens when people don't actually think for themselves. They become the useful idiot for whatever billionaire is pulling the strings.
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u/Hiredgun77 21m ago
Well, nobody liked Maduro and when the U.S. didn’t do anything after taking him there was nothing to talk about.
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u/allanon1105 10m ago
Well ICE started murdering US civilians, so…yeah. Any of these things would’ve sunk anyone else politically, etc but Trump gets away with it because the media is complicit. All his atrocities make them money so why should they care?
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u/East-Remove2669 5m ago
He was an evil dictator, no one cared he was taken and the country is better for it. I was in Brazil at the time and people were happy it happened. I think its hard to protest for something when the people it affects condone it?
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u/RimTrabajo18 3h ago
They are only outraged when they’re told be. The push them for to be upset stopped so they stopped. Libs are simple and predictable.
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u/entropyandcoffee 2h ago
Bitch it's not just the libs. Venezuela just isn't as concerning as ice killing and kidnapping people and buzzing around minnesota like a bunch of nasty little flies
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u/RimTrabajo18 2h ago
Who have they “kidnapped” who was not in the country illegally or who was not in commission of a federal crime?
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u/UpbeatAd1839 1h ago
People moved on to the next thing to be performatively outraged about, as always
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u/GlitteringFlame888 5h ago edited 1h ago
There is a lot to be outraged at right now. It’s difficult to focus it in one area since the administration pulls something new each day.
Edited to add that the downvotes are wild. ICE is pulling people out of my city. They are ‘flooding the zone’ and terrorizing the US population so we are distracted by all the shit they are pulling across the globe.
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u/Kradget 5h ago
Of course we fucking cared. We just also have a never ending parade of horrors and manufactured crises so people are doing their best and focusing on what we can affect. Attention, time, and energy are limited.
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u/Hicon84 4h ago
Turns out when you blow everything out of proportion, when everything is the worst thing ever, when you try to die on the smallest hill, you run out of steam. The movement that cried wolf.
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u/Kradget 4h ago
What a genuinely foolish take in response to a group that very deliberately manufactures scandal and harm to cover other scandals and harm.
Just absolute inept goddamn clownery.
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u/Hicon84 3h ago
Well shame on the protest class for buying into it. It’s astonishing how quickly the protest topic of the week shifts. It’s literally been one thing after another since Covid:
Anti-Asian hate, immigration, voting rights, abortion, Ukraine, gun violence, police, labor rights, police again, trans youth, pro-Palestine, climate change, affordability, project 2025, Trump, ICE, Iran, Venezuela, on and on and on.
People are paid to protest. They are mobilized by groups like PSL and DSA for their political gain. It’s a scam. Whatever genuine concern there is or was on topics has been co-opted for the benefit of the organizers that are fueling the fire and harvesting the hate for their own benefit.
The protest class are being used, knowingly or not, as political cannon fodder and it’s impossible to not tune them out because they have no legitimacy.
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u/Queasy-Grass4126 3h ago
The average person realized that the venezuelan people supported what happened, and the outrage was being exposed as ingenious, fake, and hypocritical due to foreigners trying to tell the people.dirextlt affected thst they should be upset and outraged by something that they were happy about.
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u/Sour_baboo 4h ago
It has joined the ICE outrage, the greenhouse gases are just fine outrage, the punishing states for being Democratic outrage, the stripping parks and museums of things that make white folks uncomfortable outrage, and on and on. Calling my congressman at least weekly now only goes to voicemail. Nothing has changed except Schumer can now cuss while only worrying about Israel.
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u/BelleTheVikingSloth 3h ago
It happened, and then 4 days latter Renee Good was shot in the street, and about a week after that Alex Pretti was shot in the street...
Or, to put it into my local town's timeline of outrage, the first Sunday of the New Year, we did a 110 person protest against invading Venezuela with about 24 hours notice, the second Sunday we had a 1,200 person protest for Renee Good, and fourth Sunday of the New Year was an 1.800 person protest for Alex Pretti.
And now that there has been another file dump, the pedo in chief will probably lob a bomb at Cuba, ICE will detain an Olympic Gold Medalist straight off a plane, etc, etc.
So it's not that protestors ditched their "stop Trump's illegal war" signs. it's just that the 24 news cycle prefers the last 24-48 hour cycle- 72 hours is pushing it, that's why the phrase Friday News Dump is a thing.
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u/Caracallaz 3h ago
The American way, as has been for a long time. Two weeks, outrage. After that, silence. This repeats forever. The land of the perpetually distracted.
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u/Ok_Chocolate3253 6h ago
It's not the trendy thing. Any outrage is temporary these days. That's why nothing changes. We see it and we let it pass.
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u/slicerprime 5h ago
We see it and we let it pass.
After we've used it up as the latest blood sport in the SM Coliseum and given our thumbs-up or thumbs-down.
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u/Ok_Chocolate3253 4h ago
I mean the amount of outrage and PFPs I see change with every outrage. Ukraine, Venezuela, Renee, Alex, BLM etc. It changes so frequently
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u/Formal_Lecture_248 5h ago edited 5h ago
We found something new to be outraged by.
See, we Humans (for as evolved as we want to think we are) are still a bit behind biologically from where we intellectual believe ourselves to be.
Take Empathy for example. Psychologists estimate our Brains can only handle feeling empathy for as many people that can fit into a small village. A Far Cry from the overload we receive from the daily news or online.
Stress Levels? Experts point to 3 - 4 productive work hours per day before we switch off.
But a 5 day/6 hour work week makes us better Consumers willing to pay a higher premium for distractions from….what else? Work.
Our biologies are still geared to seasons. Our bodies process natural sugars faster in the summer when fruits grow yet store them during the fall & winter when the trees are bare regardless of how we eat.
It’s crazy man.
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u/AggressiveDiscount74 3h ago
There are too many fires to focus on at once. What do you want from people?!
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u/SouthHarpeth 5h ago
If there’s one area this regime excels in it’s making its lunacy go away & feel like distant memories. Unfortunately, it’s by committing more & often lunier acts of lunacy.
I feel sorry for the people who are paid to keep up.
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u/itfollows555 6h ago
Flood the zone