Doom scrolling can transform from self-sabotage into collective political sabotage

Evidence

Such rituals thus diverge from the self-­ destructive nihilism epitomized by the condition increasingly described as “doom scrolling” condemning people to vicious circles of narcissism and negativity. In their most radical forms, “doom scrolls” can deliberately channel such negativity against the perpetrators who have inflicted precarity in the first place—moving from self-­sabotage to collective acts of political sabotage, aimed at revealing anxiety’s systemic causes. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 534

Categorization

• SEED: Could feed an essay on doom scrolling as ambivalent practice rather than mere pathology — when scrolling mutates from self-harm into a political gesture exposing systemic causes.
• FICTION: The image of deliberate, collective doom-scrolling turned against perpetrators is a usable contemporary-satire premise.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 534
• XREF: connects to: Doomscrolling can shift from self-sabotage into collective political sabotage against precarity’s causes