One of my best friends in philosophy taught me her theory of "wooking"--all the rabbit-holing and obsessing and fine-tooth-combing of ideas that we do to avoid working on our project. I can't help but think that what most of us do on social media around real-life suffering is the "wooking" of political action; it makes us feel as if we're doing something useful, but we're just feeling righteous while wasting our energy and nerves on conjured anger at the wrong people.