I've entirely cut out documentaries out of my intellectual diet, because they've got too much access to manipulative techniques to engage emotions independent o

I've entirely cut out documentaries out of my intellectual diet, because they've got too much access to manipulative techniques to engage emotions independent of the actual value of the content. Non-documentaries can do it to, like books or magazine articles, but nowhere near as strongly. Non-documentary video content can do it too, but usually without such a strong veneer of factuality. (Counterexample: An evening news program, which are probably even worse than documentaries, but are at least more limited in scope.) I might make an exception in the future for something with no effective political or scientific content, but that's about it. Most documentaries are just more dangerous than can be justified.