News is garbage. I have turned it off. I don't even know why they are going after Alex Jones. He is pure entertainment. But, I guess, they are afraid that he will trigger lone wolves. The YouTube Munchkins are even more silly. Do you think anyone with real information is going to put it on the Internet?
Ask yourself, of all the hours you have invested in reading this shit, has it led you to one good decision? Has it made you more intelligent?
"We are incredibly well informed yet we know incredibly little. Why? Because
two centuries ago, we invented a toxic form of knowledge called ‘news’. News is
to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easy to digest – and highly
destructive in the long run.
Three years ago, I began an experiment. I stopped reading and listening to the
news. I cancelled all newspaper and magazine subscriptions. Television and
radio were disposed of. I deleted the news apps from my iPhone. I didn’t touch a
single free newspaper and deliberately looked the other way when someone on a
plane tried to offer me any such reading material. The first weeks were hard. Very
hard. I was constantly afraid of missing something. But after a while, I had a new
outlook. The result after three years: clearer thoughts, more valuable insights,
better decisions, and much more time. And the best thing? I haven’t missed
anything important. My social network – not Facebook, the one that exists in the
real world consisting of flesh-and-blood friends and acquaintances – works as a
news filter and keeps me in the loop."
-- The Art of Thinking Clearly
Ask yourself, of all the hours you have invested in reading this shit, has it led you to one good decision? Has it made you more intelligent?
"We are incredibly well informed yet we know incredibly little. Why? Because
two centuries ago, we invented a toxic form of knowledge called ‘news’. News is
to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easy to digest – and highly
destructive in the long run.
Three years ago, I began an experiment. I stopped reading and listening to the
news. I cancelled all newspaper and magazine subscriptions. Television and
radio were disposed of. I deleted the news apps from my iPhone. I didn’t touch a
single free newspaper and deliberately looked the other way when someone on a
plane tried to offer me any such reading material. The first weeks were hard. Very
hard. I was constantly afraid of missing something. But after a while, I had a new
outlook. The result after three years: clearer thoughts, more valuable insights,
better decisions, and much more time. And the best thing? I haven’t missed
anything important. My social network – not Facebook, the one that exists in the
real world consisting of flesh-and-blood friends and acquaintances – works as a
news filter and keeps me in the loop."
-- The Art of Thinking Clearly
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