Multiverse Fatigue
“Some days I don’t want to touch my phone, when the competing demands create a kind of cognitive vertigo – not because I’m too busy, but because I get anxious about sending the wrong signal by forgetting to respond or not responding soon enough.
“Writer Miski Omar has the perfect term for this modern affliction: ‘multiverse fatigue’ – a kind of existential buffering that occurs when we interpret responsiveness as a proxy for care.”