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I think that future generations may forget most details of our way of life.

Oh no what will future generations do without doomscrolling.

It would be a loss IMO if future generations never knew that we even engaged in doomscrolling (or to what extent). Of all things you’d want future generations to learn from, maladaptive behavior that’s so widespread as to be hardly noticed in daily life seem high on the list.

Caveat that doomscrolling specifically maybe isn’t a great example given that we are collecting a ton of data about it, we’re mostly just ignoring it.

How well doomscrolling and were it happens is documented in historic documents? Just food for thought...

You might be projecting there.

Oooh, and projecting. Will they even know what they've lost?

(tongue firmly in cheek, I hope you understand)

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