Well it’s mostly because the good news is meaningless, and once you recognize it as such, it becomes almost an insult.
Imagine a massive fire that’s wiping out your city. Imagine all the reports coming out about the death and destruction. And then comes along some article saying something like “local group studies fire and concludes it feels really bad about it’s actions and is worried it might be put out soon”. That’s it. That’s the good news. And people holding it up and going “See? It’s not all bad!” are deluding themselves.
Look at the “good news” articles in the US these days. All are meaningless posturing that offer no real resistance towards the horrors that are happening. Take the Disney banning Kimmel thing. So many articles about how people are up in arms and are canceling their subscriptions and how Disney is really worried… And then you look and their source is like 5 random people’s tweets and pure speculation that Disney feels bad.
Sorry, I’m not going to latch my hope onto drivel that isn’t even reflective of reality. False positivity isn’t real positivity.
Well it’s mostly because the good news is meaningless, and once you recognize it as such, it becomes almost an insult.
Imagine a massive fire that’s wiping out your city. Imagine all the reports coming out about the death and destruction. And then comes along some article saying something like “local group studies fire and concludes it feels really bad about it’s actions and is worried it might be put out soon”. That’s it. That’s the good news. And people holding it up and going “See? It’s not all bad!” are deluding themselves.
Look at the “good news” articles in the US these days. All are meaningless posturing that offer no real resistance towards the horrors that are happening. Take the Disney banning Kimmel thing. So many articles about how people are up in arms and are canceling their subscriptions and how Disney is really worried… And then you look and their source is like 5 random people’s tweets and pure speculation that Disney feels bad.
Sorry, I’m not going to latch my hope onto drivel that isn’t even reflective of reality. False positivity isn’t real positivity.