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A Substack commentary by Ed West on declining literacy and the rise of 'doomscrolling,' reviewing James Marriott's new book 'The New Dark Ages' and expressing alarm over children's media diets and the shift away from reading toward digital consumption.
The article explains how the human brain's evolutionary negativity bias makes it ill-suited for the constant stream of bad news in the modern digital era, leading to widespread news avoidance and problematic news consumption.