Civic grief – The daily blog of behavioral and cognitive economics

That feeling of values crumbling has a name: civic grief

If reading or watching the news feels less like staying informed and more like a daily horror or heartbreak, you’re not alone. Many of us are carrying a kind of civic homesickness. It’s what happens when the truths we presumed were universal start to crumble. Sometimes, differences of worldview so profound have emerged that even dinner conversations feel like foreign policy negotiations. How do we give shape to this disquiet? We might call it fatigue, burnout, or ‘just needing a break from the world’, but often it’s grief – mourning for a faith we once had in fellow citizens to recognise a certain decency or sense of fairness. ….[READ]