@lawremipsum@mspsocial.net Unfortunately, I'd say it's not *just* the "extremely online" mentality.

All news outlets essentially run on this same principle - they just feed you a perpetual stream of completely non-actionable information that mostly just makes you feel bad, and that *really* is only useful to journalists whose literal job it is to distill long-term meaning from it.

This is not meant to disagree with your toot in any way, of course, just to emphasize that this problem also exists outside of "internet folks", with much the same harmful consequences, and that it's pretty much an (arguably deliberate) cultural cornerstone in many places.