What use is the metacrisis?

It’s been a while - two months to be exact. Two months in which I’ve taken a break from almost everything metacrisis-related. No pods, a handful of articles, and one book [i eat the stars by Sarah Wilson].

In the same way as there’s little point trying to soak up the firehose of daily news, I’d been finding that trying to ‘keep up’ with the metacrisis didn’t feel like it was helping. So I stopped trying - and I feel better for it.

[There is, of course, a bittersweet irony in my feeling that staying on top of metacrisis content was some sort of competition].

In stepping away, I found myself wondering - how useful is this metacrisis knowledge I’ve amassed?

I’ll let you know when I come up with something…