i dont read the news. I see more benefit in reading about economics, history, philosophy, sociology or engaging in active entertainment. The more you know abo

i dont read the news. I see more benefit in reading about economics, history, philosophy, sociology or engaging in active entertainment. The more you know about these fields, the more the news seems less like news and more like literal brainwashing. Powerful megalomaniacs want huge swaths of people to talk about Kanye's outbursts, my favourite Aussie catch-phrase "the cost of living", or some equally hot-topic...meanwhile, the world continues to turn as it always has, billions of SE Asian nobodies die in yearly tragic events without but a blink of an eye of the Western media.