Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

Post by anticorporate » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 3:55 PM UTC

breakingrules3 wrote: post #44

browningstreet wrote: post #19

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I agree that most messaging is propaganda, but that doesn't really counter the real pain that is being inflicted upon large populations of people by these government (and corporate) moves, and being cheered on by pretty large masses of people. The propaganda is like environmental pollution -- hard not to breathe it in. That said, I have no answer here..

my advice to you that cant breathe it in is leave your fantasy where propaganda is pollution and join reality where it does not impact you. also if you live in reality instead of the fantasy, you will just be less outraged in general.

Post by smcnally » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 3:55 PM UTC

comrade1234 wrote: post #8

I basically just get my news from the onion now.

Post by taylodl » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 3:56 PM UTC

yostrovs wrote: post #45

taylodl wrote: post #39

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Scientific American started "getting into politics" in the mid 20th century, so your comment is about 70 years late.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 3:57 PM UTC

crispyambulance wrote: post #47

yowayb wrote: post #9

Those of us in the west tend to forget that much of what we see is a form of propaganda, whether by governments or businesses, or even a large number of people. When you keep this in mind, everything you see becomes an opinion and your mind can comfortably (or at least not emotionally/hurriedly) form your own opinion over time.

I had used ublock-origin on youtube to disable the right-hand sidebar of "recommended" videos so that I could just view the stuff in my subscriptions. A couple of years ago, they started detecting and blocking ublock-origin, so I stopped using it (ublock). It's not really the ads that bother me. It's the "recommended videos". Is there a way to customize my view of youtube to avoid the shit I don't need to see? The th…

Post by FredPret » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC

Lendal wrote: post #37

parliament32 wrote: post #2

Personally, I fixed the problem by not bothering with "staying informed" at all. I ditched media outside of local news entirely, and just don't engage with things that I can't do anything about. It would boil down to "focus on things you can control." Sure, it's fun to be outraged together with your friends about "X leader in Y country does Z crazy thing" but.. can you do anything about it? Does your opinion matter?…

If you're a citizen of a democracy and you only focus on you, then when it comes time to vote you'll be voting randomly. Or maybe you don't vote and thereby cede control to your neighbors to make decisions for you over the environment in which you live. Assuming you decide to vote then, and since you don't live in a vacuum, your vote will be based on whatever random stuff leaked through to you during the time you wer…