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This Just In: Your Brain Is Not Built for This News was never supposed to behave like this. For most of human history, ""the news"" was slow, local, incomplete, and frequently wrong. It arrived by messenger, rumor, pamphlet, sermon, or guy-who-knows-a-guy. Its defining feature was not accuracy, speed, or objectivity, but arrival. The news was what showed up. If it came late, biased, or mangled by translation and gossip, that was not a flaw-it was the system working as designed. Then we invented printing presses. Then radios. Then television. Then the internet. Then the algorithm. Then the push notification that vibrates your pocket to tell you something happened somewhere you can't influence but will feel strongly about anyway. At no point in this process did human psychology receive a software update. Your brain is still tuned for village-scale information: who's dangerous, who's trustworthy, who's cheating, who's sick, who's winning, and who's about to cause trouble. It is exquisitely sensitive to novelty, threat, conflict, and social signaling-and aggressively indifferent to nuance, base rates, and long-term consequences. Modern news did not break your brain. It discovered it.

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