Media Markets and Morbid Fear

Who's Getting Rich Off Your Attention?

Kyla Scanlon | Kyla's Newsletter | 24th September 2025

Reframing of political polarisation and outrage as a product of the manipulation of media market structures. Too few people own too many outlets."You can’t fact-check your way out of a system designed to reward misinformation. You can’t educate your way around algorithms optimised for polarisation. You can’t moderate your way past economic incentives that make confusion profitable" (2,600 words)

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Cure For The Fear of Death

Cyril Connolly | London Magazine | 15th August 2025

Logical demolition of morbid fear, written in 1949. "The opposite of fearing death is to love life, and the painful consideration of non-existence will be found to disappear when life is lived fully and to arise chiefly when apathy and fear of life exist as well. Lovers hardly fear death at all, which is why they can afford so closely to contemplate it. If you cannot cultivate love, then cultivate courage" (600 words)