{"id":1064,"date":"2026-05-25T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:03:59","slug":"learned-helplessness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/learned-helplessness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Learned helplessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><a title=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-learned-helplessness-of-2026-655\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-learned-helplessness-of-2026-655\">https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-learned-helplessness-of-2026-655<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many normie friends of mine have just stopped engaging the news. Every day, another headline is like another electric shock we have become used to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-learned-helplessness-of-2026-655 \u201cSo many normie friends of mine have just stopped engaging the news. Every day, another headline is like another electric shock we have become used to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}