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The more news you watch, the more insane you get. The more news the world watches, the more insane it gets. Notice that I am not saying that insane people obses
by karaterobot 3y ago
The more news you watch, the more insane you get. The more news the world watches, the more insane it gets. Notice that I am not saying that insane people obsess over the media, I am saying that people who obsess over the media go insane. To be even more clear: social media is making you unhappy. It is not making you aware of your unhappiness, it is causing it. It isn't pointing out how bad the world is, it's making the world bad.
- horrysith 3y ago[dead]
- pas 3y agothere are wellbeing studies, is the proliferation of news / social media visible on these graphs? (do people settle into a new worse baseline too fast for these studies to pick this up? does this insanity show up on psychiatric stats? IIRC the data for young girls shows that their mental health got worse the more time they spent on social media, is there something similar for other cohorts?) probably it's time to look for natural experiments that could show how big of a radicalizing effect certain channels/videos/outlets have.
- ben_w 3y ago"that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them" - Not Mark Twain https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/03/misinformed/?amp=1 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/03/misinformed/?amp=1