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FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)

Overthink

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Is There a Vengeful Element in FOMO?

For Nietzsche, raissantimant is a fundamentally reactive emotion that involves resentment or hostility to what is outside of you. So it often involves the sense that other people think they're better than you and you need to put them in their place. And I'm not sure that I see a vengeful element in FOMO per se. It's too passive for vengeance. But maybe there's an element of it because one of the most common side effects of FOMO is that it really leads to this phenomenon known as cognitive distortion.

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