Something to Keep in Mind During These Time, Just a Heads-up

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You're welcome. The Archdruid is defunct now but it was good in its day for explaining much of the madness that has come to pass. I still use the wayback to read it from time to time. The TV is really the main source of poison in this world but people just refuse to accept that and continue to watch the news at least. Since the virus hit I have watched a lot of people/friends go downhill mentally, how could you not with 24/7 fear reporting. I saw the same thing after 9/11, and this is here in Oz mind you! People watched that shit day in day out until they were afraid to go into the city almost. I watched an hour of it on the first day on a friends TV and then went about my life carefree as always, hardly giving it another thought. That was easy BTW because people hardly spoke of it? Odd when you consider the fact. I see the same thing with covid. Everyone around me is saturated with the news but face to face it's hardly mentioned. I'd like to know what psychology is driving that phenomena.

You can't escape the programming, everyone thinks they have control of their minds but the simple onslaught of negative fear news overwhelms their common sense to the point where they can't act. Or if they do act it's usually in a non-productive way. Personally I think the whole covid thing has had many benifits, at least for me and my lifestyle. My job allows me to go anywhere, the roads were quiet, and the places in lockdown, restaurants, coffee shops, overpriced small businesses, were not places I frequented often anyway. If I needed to wear a mask in some places I did, why not, it's better to sacrifice a little pride to keep yourself unnoticed in this world than to go around with a sign on saying you disagree with the government and 99% of people out there.

Sometimes it makes sense to put up a fight against government and big business and I have done that in the past, but when the shit is Global? Forget it. I just keep my head down and plot ways through the madness. So far I have done ok in that regard.

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The TV is really the main source of poison in this world

I rarely watch news. Cut the cord and now use a few different streaming services instead. I have TV in my life without the agendas.

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Fair enough, were the odd ones out these days. I bought a huge flatscreen as a lounge ornament and occasionally watch movies on it off hard-drive. Every time I turn it on it wants to connect to the net but it never will. I thought of using it as a monitor and even bought the cord but then never bothered. There is a lot of documentation about how reading information is better than watching as far as analytical thought is concerned. Reading allows the brain to "think" while the reader is reading whereas video is more of an emotional experience and the watcher does no generally think critically during the process.

I find that I will agree totally with a video segment if it is aligned with my current beliefs on a subject or else dismiss it out of hand if it speaks against them. There is no real thinking taking place in my head, just judgements. I experienced this just an hour ago watching a vid on solar roadways off the EEVblog https://www.eevblog.com/ I thought the whole thing was bullshit but it may actually have had some good information. To me though it was just another dreamer's vision of utopia and all the while they were prattling on about how magical the roadways would be all I could think of was the billions of tons of concrete and steel needed to underpin the whole affair. At one point they showed a section where power etc is routed below the road and when I saw the huge concrete channels I went "Ah Ha! Bullshit" No critical thought in that :)

For this reason I prefer to read my news and other information, a little old fashioned in today's world I know, but sometimes the old ways are the best ways. EDIT: This phenomena isn't universal of course, I admit that, A lot can be learned from video. It just seems to me it's a natural channel for grosser propaganda.