To prevent the inevitable hysteria, riot and social breakdown, according to Scranton, we must learn to die. In other words, stop. Don’t react. Don’t amplify your own reaction by passing it on. Suspend the stress chain by pausing, taking time to assess the information, to question the source, to debate, to place it in the framework of cultural history, to “rework the stock of remembering”, to let go.

https://115journals.com/2021/02/25/learning-to-die-in-the-anthropocene-reflections-on-scrantons-book-2/(opens in a new tab)

https://115journals.com/Learning to Die in the Anthropocene