Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world.

New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.

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    11 months ago

    There’s a difference between violence never being desirable, and violence never being necessary. Calls for pacifism at all costs only serve those in power.

    Many people live daily with violence being done to them and their communities, but are continually admonished against the wrong kinds of resistance