Not for academics it isn’t. You learn by reading and by following citation chains and talking to other people in the field. Letting the AI do the summary is abdicating your job.

There's a pretense that despair/defeatism/doomerism is some kind of solidarity, when it's actually quitting while others face the horrors and resist succumbing to them. Wrote about that here.

Can’t go wrong with Gabriel Abend’s “The Meaning of ‘Theory’”

www.jstor.org/stable/20453...

“Faced with a broken confidence in the constancy of the world, people worked to repair it, by changing what they “know,” by modifying their behavior, and by acting to make their environment more predictable and dependable.” 5|

“These disruptions were channeled
through uncertain knowledge, along with a restricted ability to enact critical social roles, rituals,
and processes.” 4/

“What was the crisis of the
Covid-19 pandemic? Not the virus itself, nor individuals’ experiences of illness. The crisis was
one of ontological insecurity—dissolution of relational ties to people, places and things, along
with disruption of self-identity and the rhythms of social time.” 3/

“repertoires fall into two categories: making changes to what people know, by acquiring new knowledge, limiting exposure to destabilizing knowledge, or reframing expectations for what can be known, [and] changing the social or material environment to restore predictability and a sense of control.”