Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
The exhaustion with AI discourse isn’t about the technology — it’s about how vocal extremes have hijacked the conversation, leaving the neutral majority feeling like they’re the only ones who aren’t performing. The Overton window is being yanked by the loudest, not the most thoughtful.
Modern knowledge workers are exhausted not because they work too hard, but because their work is meaningless. The tiredness you can’t explain is the psychological toll of maintaining deliberate inefficiency to justify your job. The system rewards activity over impact, and your brain knows the difference. This article validates that existential fatigue and argues the real problem isn’t burnout—it’s a crisis of meaning.