Thought For The Day - What is to be done about the symptoms of content overload?

An obstacle to implementing any response to content overload is that one can retreat into a position of indifference. Young people experience a world where nothing can be done. They sense that society is falling apart and nothing will change. Fisher correlates the impotence to widespread pathologization, foreclosing the possibility of politicalization. 

"Many of the teenage students I encountered", Fisher writes, "seemed to be in a state of depressive hedonia, constituted by an inability to do anything else except pursue pleasure. Young people respond to the freedom  that post-disciplinary systems offer "not pursuing projects but by falling into hedonic lassitude: the soft narcosis, the comfort food oblivion of Playstation, all-night TV and marijuana."

Geert Lovink in Adbusters quoting Mark Fisher in Fisher's book Capitalist Realism