New Discourses New Discourses
  • Home
  • Social Justice Encyclopedia
  • ND Podcast
  • OnlySubs Podcast
  • Critical Education
  • Consulting
  • Books
  • Merch

Support This Work

Subscribe

About

Contact

FAQ

Tags
academia america audio children communism critical education theory Critical Pedagogy Critical Race Theory critical social justice Critical Theory crt education encyclopedia español gender gender studies glossary helen pluckrose herbert marcuse history Ideology James Lindsay marxism members only nd podcast neo-marxism new discourses onlysubs philosophy podcast postmodernism Queer Theory race racism Robin DiAngelo schools social justice social justice dictionary spanish terms tftw translations from the wokish video woke wokeness
  • About
  • Articles
  • Videos
  • Audio
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Support This Work
  • FAQ
Subscribe
New Discourses New Discourses

Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.

New Discourses New Discourses
  • Home
  • Social Justice Encyclopedia
  • ND Podcast
  • OnlySubs Podcast
  • Critical Education
  • Consulting
  • Books
  • Merch
  • Audio

OnlySubs: Stop Buying Digital Anxiety

  • April 24, 2021
  • James Lindsay
Stop Buying Digital Anxiety
Total
0
Shares
Share 3
Tweet 0
Share 0

OnlySubs Episode 35: Stop Buying Digital Anxiety is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms:
Locals
Patreon
Subscribestar
YouTube Members

We have already entered a brave new world, in a manner of speaking, in which our interface with digital technology is effectively necessary for everyday life. This has created not just new ways of living and interacting with information and each other but also new economic models, especially around information. Social media and, in its wake, the corporate press have, in their relentless pursuit of engagement (thus revenue), evolved into a situation in which selling anxiety is highly profitable. Why? Because when your device makes you anxious, for many people they will turn further into their device to find a resolution to their anxiety. This creates a self-sustaining loop that’s great for social media engagement and news-media engagement, thus profits for those companies, but not so great for you, upon whose well-being that profit is being earned.

You have to break the loop. You have to realize that the device that brought you anxiety is, perhaps, the least likely device to resolve your anxiety, especially through platforms that effectively sell pathological and self-reinforcing anxiety as a business model. What’s the remedy? In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I offer some simple advice: when you feel the anxiety rising, unplug and go get real. Go outside; do something physical; have sex; do something else and stop looking for peace and resolution in the device that’s selling you your stress. Join me for a candid discussion of this topic!

Previous episodes of OnlySubs can be found here.

Total
3
Shares
Share 3
Tweet 0
Share 0
James Lindsay

An American-born author, mathematician, and professional troublemaker, Dr. James Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is a leading expert on Critical Race Theory, which leads him to reject it completely. He is the founder of New Discourses and currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody," which is currently being translated into more than fifteen languages.

Related Topics
  • anxiety
  • audio
  • digital
  • James Lindsay
  • life advice
  • mainstream media
  • members only
  • new discourses
  • onlysubs
  • podcast
  • social media
Previous Article
Communism Doesn't Know How
  • Audio

Communism Doesn’t Know How

  • April 23, 2021
  • New Discourses
View Post
Next Article
OnlySubs: Equal Access to a Pile of Rubble
  • Audio

OnlySubs: Equal Access to a Pile of Rubble

  • April 27, 2021
  • James Lindsay
View Post
You May Also Like
DEI Explained | New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 1
View Post
  • Audio

A Social Contract for the New World Order

  • New Discourses
  • June 30, 2022
OnlySubs: Communism, Terrible Idea, Every Species
View Post
  • Audio

OnlySubs: Communism, Terrible Idea, Every Species

  • James Lindsay
  • June 29, 2022
Groomer Schools 4: Drag Queen Story Hour
View Post
  • Audio

Groomer Schools 4: Drag Queen Story Hour

  • New Discourses
  • June 27, 2022
DEI Explained | New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 1
View Post
  • Audio

Leninism, Maoism, and Stakeholder Capitalism

  • New Discourses
  • June 24, 2022
On the Sovereignty of Logos | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 98
View Post
  • Audio

OnlySubs: On the Sovereignty of Logos

  • James Lindsay
  • June 23, 2022
The Queer Subversion of Feminism: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex" Part 3
View Post
  • Audio

The Queer Subversion of Feminism: Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex” Part 3

  • New Discourses
  • June 20, 2022
DEI Explained | New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 1
View Post
  • Audio

Critical Thinking versus Critical Theory

  • New Discourses
  • June 16, 2022
James, What Can I Do? | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 97
View Post
  • Audio

OnlySubs: James, What Can I Do?

  • James Lindsay
  • June 15, 2022

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Support This Work

Follow Us



Recent Posts
  • A Social Contract for the New World Order
  • OnlySubs: Communism, Terrible Idea, Every Species
  • Groomer Schools 4: Drag Queen Story Hour
  • Leninism, Maoism, and Stakeholder Capitalism
  • OnlySubs: On the Sovereignty of Logos

Recent Comments
  • JS on A Social Contract for the New World Order
  • R.b. on OnlySubs: Communism, Terrible Idea, Every Species
  • Jesper Vad Kristensen on The Calamity of Scientific Gnosticism
  • Jesper Vad Kristensen on The Calamity of Scientific Gnosticism
  • Aidan Barrett on OnlySubs: Communism, Terrible Idea, Every Species

Tags
academia america audio children communism critical education theory Critical Pedagogy Critical Race Theory critical social justice Critical Theory crt education encyclopedia español gender gender studies glossary helen pluckrose herbert marcuse history Ideology James Lindsay marxism members only nd podcast neo-marxism new discourses onlysubs philosophy podcast postmodernism Queer Theory race racism Robin DiAngelo schools social justice social justice dictionary spanish terms tftw translations from the wokish video woke wokeness
ND Banner Image for sidebar copy
ND Banner Image for sidebar copy
book ad v 2
Social
Facebook 10K
Twitter 42K
Instagram 7K
YouTube 98K
SoundCloud 0
Subscribe
New Discourses
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Cookie Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Contact
© 2022 New Discourses. All Rights Reserved.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.