Let's Stop Clicking for Doomsday

As AI monitors our every interest, let's keep in mind that we are "voting" with our clicks now more than ever before. It may be tempting to read about the minutes remaining on the carbon, plastic, end-of-earth clock and whether the stories are true or not, the very act of clicking on that link, drives more of that news into our screens and earbuds evermore.

This is not new, and we all know it.

We have already witnessed the Doomsday Phenomenon through our news channels. TV, Radio, and Newspaper publishers measured long ago that people wanted "dirty laundry " (Don Henly's best lyrics: "I make my living off the evening news, just give me something-something I can use, people love it when you lose, they love dirty laundry. Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet? Get the widow on the set!") but what was simply dirty laundry has now snowballed into a monster -- global doomsday.

Many believe in the power of prayer, that when groups of people focus their attention on healing a loved one or a stranger, miracles happen.

Conversely, wouldn't the opposite be true? Wouldn't the very doomsday thinking that has enveloped every sci-fi movie and New York Times Best Seller in the past 10 years also impact a shift in what manifests?

If comparison to prayer doesn't do it for you, how about quantum physics? The Observer Effect says so and it's measurable.

So before you mindlessly click on CNN's Doomsday Clock (That was a test: DON'T DO IT!), step back and consider what kind of world you are constructing with that click. (To release that tension -- there will probably never be a time when it's not okay to click on cat videos )

In the end, ushering in leaders without a disaster mindset might be a good move. Because who is a better decision-maker: Someone living with an end-of-world mindset, someone with a solution mindset, or maybe you'd prefer that AI-generated decision-maker that you trained with your click?