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Normalizing catastrophes and catastrophizing normalcy (with Mike Pesca)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Harms of Journalists Spreading Ideas

The idea is if people start to believe that we could be headed to the civil war, people start preparing as though we could have a civil war. We're not even civil war, just like an unworkable system that you don't want to be part of or maybe you don't vote and take up really unworkable political solutions. I mean, my basic premise is that we live in a horrible time and things are really bad. And the only time it's ever been worse is every single time before now. So yeah, things are pretty bad, but is it because objectively speaking, you look outside and it's that things are bad or it's that because we have little devices

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