You don’t need me to list it all out, you already know. You’ve already seen the headlines this week, probably more than once, probably late at night when you told yourself you were just going to check one thing. The economic anxiety is real, the political noise is real, the sense that something foundational is shifting beneath your feet and nobody in charge seems particularly concerned about it is real. And if you’ve spent any time at all in deconstruction or reconstruction, you came into this moment already a little tired or already a little tender. Probably already carrying more than most people around you probably realize.
The world actually is a lot right now. This isn’t anxiety lying to you. Some of what you’re feeling is just honest grief about real things, and it deserves to be treated that way. What I want to gently push back on is the idea that consuming more of it is the same thing as caring about it, or that staying perpetually activated is the sam…