> In practice, I don't find that closely following breaking news is all that useful to me, since I'm not in a position to do anything about it, and it just make

> In practice, I don't find that closely following breaking news is all that useful to me, since I'm not in a position to do anything about it, and it just makes me anxious to worry about things which are out of my control. Bingo. This is why I never got into the habit of watching the news at all. This exact line of thinking. This is also why I think society is kind of mad. I can clearly see when the news has people in their grip because then everyone talks about what happened, and eventually almost everyone has the same opinion about what happened (which is the opinion the news has given them and put in their heads). I wonder if people in the west realise there is propaganda here too, and it's not just in Russia and China.