Watching the War Won’t Stop It

How to turn doom-scrolling into ‘do-scrolling’

Eric Weiner
Forge
Published in
5 min readMar 3, 2022

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I can’t stop watching. The shattered skylines, and lives, of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and other Ukrainian cities fill my TV screen, my laptop, my smartphone. Even when I press mute, I can still hear the fear in the voice of a terrified child or the quiet determination of a resistance fighter.

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Eric Weiner
Forge
Writer for

Philosophical Traveler. Recovering Malcontent. Author of four books, including my latest: “The Socrates Express.”