Are You Stuck in The Sad Gap
Channel: vlogbrothers
Date: 2022-04-15

I haven't run across a video that was so hard to fit into four minutes in a long time. There is a lot I want to say about this, and also a lot that I'm not 100% clear on. I don't know to what extent this is an artifact of the structure of people communicating and to what extent it is an artifact of the way the social internet is built. 

I also think that there are some people who think that The Sad Gap is the honorable, correct place to be. As if you are a bad person if you get out of the place where you only feel hopelessness and outrage. I am, frankly, OVER THAT. I think it's making things much worse. I never thought it was the right thing to do and the moment I realized that other people did, I got very worried. 

Anyway, it's taken me a long time to think about this stuff and articulate it and I am very curious about what other people think so please leave comments, I will be reading them voraciously. 

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