I'm Too Tired by the Third Day

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"I don't know that humans are built to feel this passionately about six different things every day," he says. "If I woke up tomorrow and I was going to be Steven A by Friday, I'd be like this" The idea that we have to be mad about everything everywhere all the time is exhausting for people who work on a 24-hour news channel or social media,. writes John Sutter.

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