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It shocks me how many people get upset when you tell them that you avoid following the latest daily outrage that the news media presents us. A while back I real
by iamkroot 7y ago
It shocks me how many people get upset when you tell them that you avoid following the latest daily outrage that the news media presents us. A while back I realized that exactly nobody spends time "catching up" on daily news if they are required to unplug for any significant amount of time, so why should I bother to follow it in real time?
- alexashka 7y agoThey are shocked you are not like them, you are shocked them are not like you. The loop feeds itself unless one of the parties ceases being shocked. I've found it easier to cease being shocked on my end, than waiting for the universe to change to suit my fancy.
- beerdoggie 7y agoGreat perspective.
- koonsolo 7y ago"You have to know what's going on in the world" is what my parents would say. News always makes me upset or angry in some way, so I avoid it too.
- wwweston 7y agoNot exactly nobody: I do actually spend time catching up, but maybe the interesting part about that process is the sources. There's a few online aggregation sources/tools that I sometimes use, but old school weekly periodicals (Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, etc) shine, to the point where I sometimes wonder if that's how I should be doing all my media consumption. Maybe even tech chatter, if I could pull it off.