The Outrage Game

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Welcome to the Outrage Game.

Today is day two.

Are you playing?

While we fact check, they create facts.

While we’re outraged about their lack of morals, they put their skewed moral compass into action.

A steady stream of chaotic, dystopian news.

While we’re trying to make sense of it, they’re acting behind a smoke screen of chaos.

It’s an exhausting game to participate in.

It’s a powerful game to put on.

Unless you’ve been careful, you’re on the field already, being dragged out into the arena like a bear on a chain.

Bread and games for some.

Mental anguish and anxiety for others.

The reporting goes on and on and on.

You won’t believe what they did today! [Click on this, we know you can’t help yourself.]

Fear and outrage, baby, the best clickbait in existence.

Scroll, scroll, scroll, until the anxiety of impending doom has enveloped you completely.

Playing the game, the stakes are high: your mental health, the health of your communities, and democracy.

Escaping the chaos and ordering your priorities is the only way out.

Follow the most boring, matter-of-factual news source you can. Refuse to engage with click-, rage, and fear bait. Pick a cause or two, or three and support those with your time and/or money. Get involved in local politics.

It may sound like chaos is taking over the world.

Remember: fear and anger make for the quickest clicks.

If you dominate the news cycle, you dominate people’s awareness.

From there, it’s only a small step to believing this reality is all that there is.

It’s a smoke screen. Avoid falling for it.

Johanna.

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