Doomscrolling is the act of spending an excessive amount of time on digital content that elicits negative emotion and it is metaphysically grotesque. One can take the most extraordinary instrument ever devised for the circulation of human thought, and reduce it to a slot machine for anxiety.

This “flattened schizophrenic scroll matrix” highlights that the problem isn't simply that you're looking at too much information but that the information has been stripped of scale, context, sequence, and consequence. Headlines, gossip, scandals, recipes, culinary photos, so so memes, lukewarm jokes, arguments between strangers - hundreds of realities without inhabiting any of them. All of which arrive through essentially the same little rectangular aperture. And then you scroll it.

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