You have to do your own curation or have some other people do it for you. Find people who seem to say interesting things (and not merely things you agree with)

You have to do your own curation or have some other people do it for you. Find people who seem to say interesting things (and not merely things you agree with) and see what they have to say. Force yourself into reading those boring long essays instead of the snippets posted on social networks. Flee 24h news coverage and prefer more in-depth analysis after the fact. The ideas don't get to you, you get to them. The rest is just entertainment. That's the whole problem really, the path of least resistance leads you to stupid one liners. A random Trump tweet reaches more people than the entirety of the works of any philosopher or economist.