stop writing posts describing problems that you have no ability, no ideas, and no real capability to solve.
This is a moronic thing to say. First, diagnosis is valuable in and of itself. Second, awareness of a problem shouldn't wait on a solution. Third, you're basically saying that, for any problem beyond a certain individually-addressable size, just don't talk about it because the author can't do anything about it. I don't think that's exactly what you meant, but that's what you said.
She didn't wound you. She pointed out that you're bleeding. If she doesn't have a bandage to give you, should she just ignore the spreading pool at your feet?
a) that's an ad hominim. I never attacked the author, and you are attacking me. Apology accepted in advance.
b) there is a large class of problem which only induces anxiety. For example, lamenting the "disconnection" between people in a modern, technology mediated society (which is a lament that's been going since the industrial revolution, and is no less valid now as then).
When we accept that large, impersonal forces shape the world in ways that, when we are thoughtful enough, realize are wrong or flawed, then we give up personal agency in fixing the problem. When you see a large, impersonal force causing a large, impersonal problem, the correct action is to file it away and keep your eyes open for opportunities to help people who both see the problem and have a solution.
That's just how I feel about the matter; others are welcome to have different beliefs.
I called your statement moronic, not you. I will not be apologizing for doing so. If I say something idiotic, calling it such does not entail that I am an idiot.
There may or may not be a class of problems that only induces anxiety, but your example is not a member of that class even if such a class exists. Trivially, I can address the disconnection between people in our technologically mediated society by going out and meeting people in person. If I write a lament about that disconnection, I'm not speaking out solely to induce anxiety, I'm doing so to urge people to turn of their computers, to quit starting at their iPhone, and to go out and make personal connections.
More specifically, Ms. Bracy is not, in any sense, suggesting that the problem she identifies is insoluble, or that it cannot be addressed by individuals. She says, in part:
What if, instead of imploring people to vote on Facebook’s privacy policies, we were pushing Florida lawmakers into fixing the state’s broken voting system? What if prison reform advocates could speak as loudly as the anti-SOPA activists?
More generally, her post is a plea for the participants of the Valley startup scene to look to address problems outside their own, quite limited experience. That's not anxiety-inducing, that's an exhortation. The fact that she doesn't link to a kickstarter for a specific project doesn't undercut that point. It's easy to imagine someone in the Valley casting about for a good idea to decide to say to themselves "We don't need another socially networked tastes-organizing app. What problems are worth solving in St. Louis for people who don't have smartphones?"
You have an extremely limited view of 'agency' if you think Ms. Bracy's post exists solely to make you feel badly.
This is a moronic thing to say. First, diagnosis is valuable in and of itself. Second, awareness of a problem shouldn't wait on a solution. Third, you're basically saying that, for any problem beyond a certain individually-addressable size, just don't talk about it because the author can't do anything about it. I don't think that's exactly what you meant, but that's what you said.
She didn't wound you. She pointed out that you're bleeding. If she doesn't have a bandage to give you, should she just ignore the spreading pool at your feet?