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For me, the who cares part started with the latest election cycle and current president. The zone has been flooded, I quit reading the news and cannot be bothered to care about any of it.

Additionally, AI generated content, AI pictures and deepfakes have a numbing effect. I guess I can say "who cares?"

>>SirFat+(OP)
This obsession is not healthy.

>>SirFat+(OP)
> For me, the who cares part started with the latest election cycle and current president.

I would say it started before, when the supposedly most powerful country of the world was ruled by a senile person and it was not replaced immediately. Instead half the country negated the evidence that we now know was true.

I am not American so I observe those things with curiosity from outside and from inside only as a visitor.

But I don't know: the weapons of mass destruction, the too big to fail. Most people didn't care them unless it affected them personally, like savings.

My theory is the opposite, that people care too much. Company owners wanted free money so if the country gets destroyed in the process, they will "not care" as much for the people that printing money throws under the bus as the "care" about them and their personal proffit.

In a two-party system the same thing happens. They do "not care" about having a senile president as much as they "care" about not losing the power for "their" party. Now the same thing happens with Ukraine and Trump.

The culprit here is the two party system that lacks healthy competition for getting into power.

>>SirFat+(OP)
When there was little to read, people read what was there, sometimes several times. When there is too much to read, people skim at most. You simply can't engage with it all; you can't even try to engage with it all. There's too much.

When someone lies to you enough times (or, if you prefer, speaks with total disregard of the truth enough times), you stop listening. It's not worth your time to sort out the truth from the not-truth. Worse, it's unhealthy to listen to lies in volume. (Think in bayesian terms: If you update your priors at all, then if the lies come in great enough volume, they will eventually become accepted as truth.)

I care some. I care about where the country is going. I'm concerned. But I can't care about every post and every back-and-forth and every he-said-she-said. There's too much.

AI... I can't be bothered to care about anything written by an AI, for the exact same reasons.

>>cladop+q7
"The culprit here is the two party system that lacks healthy competition for getting into power."

Actually, no, the issue is corruption. The two party system is fine. Both parties are corrupt. Have 4 parties... still are going to be corrupt. Citizens United, meme coins, insider trading and no term limits equals a bad time for John and Jane Doe.