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For me, removing myself from Facebook (2010) and Twitter (2023) was the best thing I have ever done for my mental health.
(... which explains, among other things, the multiple references to a singular Trump presidency)
Why not just read the news once a week? I remember back many years ago I would only think about politics and all that when I read The Economist once every few days. Or I would read NewsWeek once a week. Aside from that I wouldn’t think about the news at all. Nowadays with smartphones the constant bombardment of news….thats what the new smoking. Not the news in of itself. Actually if you look at the negative cognitive…
I Agree with a lot of what this article says, except it doesn't provide a better solution for being informed. Seems to suggest ingornance is bliss.
I Agree with a lot of what this article says, except it doesn't provide a better solution for being informed. Seems to suggest ingornance is bliss.
But completely ignorance of what’s going on in the world is not something to be lauded. It’s how we’ve ended up in the situation we find ourselves in today, a fact free environment where politicians get away with murder (sometimes literally!) because so many people aren’t paying attention.
Equating reading the news is smoking feels completely incorrect on a number of levels.
I quit news from around 2015 to around 2019 and it was the best period of my life in terms of productivity, clarity of mind. Of course, other things also were a factor, like I routinely would go offline for days or even weeks, only using my computer. Covid broke me because it was so captivating to read about a thing that will directly affect me. It even felt mildly intellectual in the moment, all the analytics and pr…
Stay safe, and I wish you all the luck I can that you all manage to drive out the Russian invaders.
This feels dangerous. Being obsessed with reading the news, watching endless cable news, getting steams of push notifications… yeah, unhealthy. But completely ignorance of what’s going on in the world is not something to be lauded. It’s how we’ve ended up in the situation we find ourselves in today, a fact free environment where politicians get away with murder (sometimes literally!) because so many people aren’t pay…