Epistemic Exhaustion: Uncertainty, Polarization, and Misinformation are Tiring Us Out

Mark Satta
4 min readNov 26, 2020
Photo by Andrew Neel

Someone shares an article with an unnerving headline on Facebook, but you don’t have the energy to investigate.

A colleague spreads coronavirus misinformation during a meeting, but you decide it’s not worth it to try to correct them.

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Mark Satta

Philosophy professor and attorney writing about philosophy, law, religion, politics, queerness, and books, among other things. he/him