Cable news are evil. FOMO induced by things you shouldn't be seeing naturally. You wouldn't be saddened by the footage of some crime that happened a thousand mi

Cable news are evil. FOMO induced by things you shouldn't be seeing naturally. You wouldn't be saddened by the footage of some crime that happened a thousand miles afar, back in the days before the Industrial Revolution. Is a murder important? Hell yeah, it's an absolutely serious and sad situation, thus the subconscious FOMO if you aren't watching. Did you need to know about it? No, it's entirely artificial that you can even know about some horrendous crime that happened at the other side of the world and negatively impacted by it. You shouldn't be, human mind-body and emotional systems are not designed nor prepared for this. How many murders per month pre-IR people were witnessing, let alone with their own eyes? I don't watch cable TV but my parents do, and I can see the effect. I'm not even mentioning TV debates which are mostly BS, with all the 'experts' trying to sound important on some topic irrelevant to %99 of the population. An again, all this is for advertising, the new root of all evil. TBH some amount is for political agendas too. It's good that young people don't really watch TV anymore. (Not to imply what replaced it - social media - causes any less mental illness [1].) 1: https://www.afterbabel.com/archive?sort=top https://www.afterbabel.com/archive?sort=top