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What are your views on the cause of the american civil war and war of independence? Did the papers back then cause it all?
I can't believe how fast casual racism is regressing.
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CNN, like Fox News and every other news organisation, are entertainment channels giving the public what they want. This is like blaming your alcoholism on Budweiser or your obesity on McDonalds. Sure, it’s certainly part of the problem, but it’s hardly the primary cause. People are lazy, and learning the truth about complicated things is harder than just making your mind up quickly based on garbage information.
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CNN, like Fox News and every other news organisation, are entertainment channels giving the public what they want. This is like blaming your alcoholism on Budweiser or your obesity on McDonalds. Sure, it’s certainly part of the problem, but it’s hardly the primary cause. People are lazy, and learning the truth about complicated things is harder than just making your mind up quickly based on garbage information.
That's... Absolutely not how TV works. They don't create an endless series of alternative formats and beta test them. They ape existing formats for the biggest slice of the same pool of already addicted viewers. So over time, a local maxima is achieved - serving eye catching 'hot' stimuli, violence primary (due to American cultural prohibitions around sex). Since there's little choice (red or blue essentially) the pu…
Even then, YouTube is rife with Ben Shapiro/Russell Brand/Jordan Peterson/Bill Maher/etc. videos regardless.
Social media is an utter dumpster fire for nonsense propaganda and misinformation.
The web has become vastly more manipulated than mainstream media.
People want to be entertained, and they want to be told what to think.
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Yes surely this is a good representative experiment.
But we should recognize that humans are sometimes happier having some clear directions to follow and tasks to perform. Depends on the person and the situation, of course.
But it's also human nature that everyone wants to be the one giving the directions, even if it makes them unhappy.
Too much free time can be as bad as little free time ( ). In another thread from today there is a game for simulating an economic model, I wonder if in that model they consider the amount of free time as an important nonlinear variable. ( ) https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/09/too-much-fre...
> Once again, the researchers found that higher levels of free time were significantly associated with higher levels of well-being, but only up to a point. After that, excess free time was not associated with greater well-being.
The point made is more similar to wealth correlating to happiness up to a point. The article concludes that it's a sense of purpose that matters to people, not work. Your comment is a bit obfuscating.
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Thinking there is inherent meaning in salaried or at-will work is more ideological than factual. This can be scrapped for: being creative or productive with one's time. And this isn't tied to a job contract to an employer that is, more often than not, brutal to you.