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Australians are gripped by feelings of doom about the state of the world. It’s time to throw the phone away | Peter Lewis

www.theguardian.com Australians are gripped by feelings of doom about the state of the world. It’s time to throw the phone away | Peter Lewis

To be active citizens worthy of our mandate, we need to not just react to the things in front of us but to find the time to reflect and question our own place in the story

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Surely the solution is to just bury our heads in the sand and ignore everything falling apart around us until we can't ignore it anymore.
- The article is more about reading actual books and not about ignoring reality. In other words, having a deeper understanding of societal conditions and not just the shallow interpretations that filter through social media.
  
  There's certainly an irony in commenting on it, seemingly without first reading it 🫠
  
  Yeah I had the same thought that the comments were proving the author's point. To be fair, the headline is pretty shit and I thought about editoralising it (but wasn't sure if that was allowed here).
  
  It also says that younger generations (who presumably consume the most social media) are the biggest readers of books, and that they appear to be the most ready/keen to enact change.
  Based on the data presented in the article, it's clear that you can consume both types of media/information simultaneously without "throwing away your phone".
- That’s right, now be a good citizen and watch the 37th season of Big Celebrity Farmer Wants Marriage at First Idol Survivor Win Alone.

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