Tag: current events

Super Bowl Sunday, America’s most beloved unofficial national holiday, kicks off in a few days. However, I feel particularly uninterested this year. Perhaps because my team, the Chicago Bears, effectively quit their season in late November when they took the rare step of firing their head coach in-season (timing that was mere days before my personal day of birth AND ALSO the Sunday I watched my Bears flop around from a sunny seat at San Francisco’s Levi’s Stadium [THE PAIN]).

Or perhaps because I have so many good ideas for the NFL (and the Chicago Bears):

Four years ago, the news was so alarming I reached out to a wise person for advice on how to process the disorienting reality I was living in.

Some of their advice included a different way to think about the Internet, with the first step of displacing social media’s role. They suggested viewing my browser app as a newspaper, returning to an earlier, website-based form of surfing the web now replaced by doomscrolling.