It is and it isn’t. Like everything it depends on frequency and consistency.
Is this you every day for weeks at a time, even for activities that used to give you joy? Yeah you’re probably burnt out. Is this you, constantly, in a cycle you can’t seem to break? Over a period of months and changing circumstances? Keep an eye out for other symptoms and maybe go get checked.
We really need to stop throwing away useful terms and concepts because their progenitors don’t turn out to be role models. Knowledge doesn’t always come from perfect sources. “Tragedy of the Commons” has no basis in race as a concept as I understand it, I don’t see why the guy who coined the term being a racist POS means I should take a moral stance on it.
… but, you know, fuck that guy.
I love a good dirge where I agree with about 70% of what the person is saying and can’t tell if it’s cringe or eloquent until I’ve sat with it awhile. It usually tells me I’ve made it to the right parts of the internet lmao.
However I don’t think the internet is dying, I think it’s fragmenting slower than it used to because the informed are moving away from the social spaces where they’re obviously being mistreated, just like they always have. Only now most of them have digital baggage because these companies have been around so long they have become a large part of our every day lives. Migrating from MySpace to Facebook was 100x easier than trying to move your family from Facebook Messenger to Signal.
Happens to the best of us. Sounds like burnout to me though.
Making lists and setting goals usually jumpstarts me out of a jam like that. Well, it gives me something to agonize over until it’s perfect and then something to feel guilty about later until I complete it lol. But… I’m definitely supposed to be in here lmao.