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100% My biggest example of this is cutting out reading the news. It's been great - all the news brought me was constant negativity about things out of my contr

by HP61 3y ago

100% My biggest example of this is cutting out reading the news. It's been great - all the news brought me was constant negativity about things out of my control

skeeter2020 3y ago
I believe this is a relatively recent construct, because "the news" isn't really about that anymore. Even the last hold-outs, the national or public outlets have stopped presenting balanced "state of the world" and shifted to either negative, headline, click-driving OR agenda-based propaganda. My wife is still very in-touch with current events and finds it hilarious when I tell her about this "new topic" when in reality I'm coming in to the third or fourth wave of the story fresh. My life is better without "The News" IMO.
- AndrewKemendo 3y ago
  …the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. - Thomas Jefferson https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3237870-the-man-who-never-looks-into-a-newspaper-is https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3237870-the-man-who-never-l...
- rsingel 3y ago
  Your particular life might be, but it's likely because you are comfortable. The point of news is social change or social control (depending on who owns it), and the kind of news you lament being gone was never actually neutral. It also was in no way how news started. You want your power company to not dump coal waste in rivers? Get some press. You want buildings to be retired to be accessible because you are a wheelchair user? Get the press to care about it. If you are a service member or a NYC firefighter who wants the government to be accountable for giving you cancer because of burn pits or 9/11 toxic waste? Hammer the gov in the press You want to stop the NSA from spying on Americans? Leak insider docs to the press. You want better media? Subscribe and pay for it.
ramraj07 3y ago
If your mental health demands it, sure. Save yourself first. Wear your own mask before helping others. But helping others is not optional. Not for a moral person anyway. Apparently no one nowadays is.

by HP61 3y ago

100% My biggest example of this is cutting out reading the news. It's been great - all the news brought me was constant negativity about things out of my control

skeeter2020 3y ago

I believe this is a relatively recent construct, because "the news" isn't really about that anymore. Even the last hold-outs, the national or public outlets have stopped presenting balanced "state of the world" and shifted to either negative, headline, click-driving OR agenda-based propaganda. My wife is still very in-touch with current events and finds it hilarious when I tell her about this "new topic" when in reality I'm coming in to the third or fourth wave of the story fresh. My life is better without "The News" IMO.

AndrewKemendo 3y ago
…the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. - Thomas Jefferson https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3237870-the-man-who-never-looks-into-a-newspaper-is https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3237870-the-man-who-never-l...
rsingel 3y ago
Your particular life might be, but it's likely because you are comfortable. The point of news is social change or social control (depending on who owns it), and the kind of news you lament being gone was never actually neutral. It also was in no way how news started. You want your power company to not dump coal waste in rivers? Get some press. You want buildings to be retired to be accessible because you are a wheelchair user? Get the press to care about it. If you are a service member or a NYC firefighter who wants the government to be accountable for giving you cancer because of burn pits or 9/11 toxic waste? Hammer the gov in the press You want to stop the NSA from spying on Americans? Leak insider docs to the press. You want better media? Subscribe and pay for it.

ramraj07 3y ago

If your mental health demands it, sure. Save yourself first. Wear your own mask before helping others. But helping others is not optional. Not for a moral person anyway. Apparently no one nowadays is.