⛪ Tobias Wahlqvist: Pessimism is a kind of religion
No culture has ever existed without religion. And neither do we. Robin Dunbar shows that religion is not about God, but about belonging. In our secular age, pessimism has become the creed. Complaining is the ritual. And the optimist? A heretic.
🥱 The more boring public service news, the better
A better and more reasonable public service should not be the fastest to report on an event. They shouldn’t even try to be. They should make a point out of being the slowest, to calmly take their time in finding out the actual facts and events and then publish their findings.
⚔️ Do you participate in the media's constructed war of opinions?
The news purports to inform, but it does not. Their made-up conflicts make us less actionable and less informed. Their contrived wars of opinion are fought by volunteers. It is possible to opt-out.