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Um...Relevance, not relavance
If it means something, thank you. You've given me things I couldn't ask for.
"Some poor phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere, totally unaware of how angry and scared he's supposed to be." - Duncan Trussell
@@things_leftunsaid The guy should be careful not to get sucked down in the plunge pool. That shit is dangerous!
@@things_leftunsaid You have experience?
@@things_leftunsaid the phoneless chap probably wouldn’t spend their time commenting on random TH-cam videos, so less likely to fall down a virtual rabbit hole
“some poor phoneless fool is probably starving to death due to their poverty” - a fucking genius (me) (I’m so smart) (And selflessness) (I am so amazing) (I am a god in human clothing)
having seen plenty of monks. they may be poor and phoneless but they're no fools
My grandmother always, after hearing me complain or rant about something, said: "what will you do about it?". I hated that when I was younger because I thought she was just being dismissive. Now I understand why she said that. Taking an action about things that we can change is a step towards a better future, and of things we can't really do anything about, just try to move on and focus on other things. Might not be the perfect way to live, but I think it helps me with my mental well-being during these trying times.
Sounds like apathy with extra steps
@@surfexcel9178 What will you do about it?
@@surfexcel9178 not really. Apathy is complete indifference, this still takes the mental effort to understand these things which cannot be surmounted and to actively choose those things we can do to make a better future in the meantime, then maybe someday when we're in the right circumstances we can make those changes we've meant to. We can't actively be apart of everything everywhere all at once, or we'd be stretched thin and useless to the things that do matter in the moment
The discrepancy between doing things one can change and the approach of ignoring things one can't change is that at some point there are things we can't change on our own but absolutely must change.
My grandmother said something similar, 'They can't hear you' when my family would yell at the TV.
I think this was a pretty fair and balanced take. Too often, critiques of the modern news media are all "supply" focused - that is, they presume the existence of a sinister media industry imposing a bad product on the public. But media today is very hyper-competitive, the market has never been more crowded. This creates a powerful incentive to generate content that attracts clicks and eyeballs, which in turn requires a pretty sophisticated understanding of audience psychology.
I've worked in media for quite a while, and I've often seen people make start-up media outlets with the best of intentions - to create a more moral and ethical "alternative" media, but sooner rather than later, the need to please the audience sees the content start to decay in a more shallow, biased, pessimistic, sensationalistic direction. Which does suggest that we, as media consumers, need to think more critically about WHY we are attracted to "bad news" (in both senses of the term) in the first place, and whether we can change our consumption habits to change what the market offers.
Matt Taibbi's Hate, Inc. is the best book I've read on the current media landscape.
I spotted multiple Among Us figurines on your wall and now I can't unsee them and I had to unsubcribe from your channel because of the memories those astronauts bring to me. I am sorry for this loss but I just can't help myself.
The answer is dismantle capitalism
@@connorm.9511 I love how frequently I hear that retort.
Pretty much any topic and most socialists only words will be “dismantle capitalism”. It’s become a meme at this point (well I guess it always was one)
To you all, I wish you the best in your endeavors.
@@BasicLib What do you want me to do? Write an entire essay in the TH-cam comment section?
Becoming an actual expert in a given subject will quickly make you realize how wrong most news reports are.
Using myself as an example, I studied law and have been working in the field for years. Between academic and practical knowledge I can confidently state that I have never read an article from a general news source regarding a legal issue that wasn't sligthly to grossly misinformed, biased or just plain wrong.
That made me wonder, how much else is being reported wrong? Well, talk to any expert in any field and they will tell you... most of it. This is not some great conspiracy, just a symptom of increasingly confused people in a fast moving, complex world.
@@things_leftunsaid interesting, but I'm horrible at physics, so it might be a bit lost on me haha
If you see it as a binary between conspiracy and happenstance, I would recommend Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky as well as Inventing Reality by Micheal Parenti. It is not an accident that the media is the way it is.
@@kallmeej9106 I mentioned the conspiracy part because for a few years now, the media messing up has been seen as an organised effort towards disinformation. There definitely does exist bias and some takes are clearly aimed at creating a narrative, however, incompetence and sheer stupidity are the bigger culprits. I'm not a big fan of Chomsky, who is actually very much interested in creating a narrative. But I'll check it out, thanks for the suggestion
@@wolfhard3997 I'm not a huge Chomsky fan either at this point but I would highly recommend those books because they're extensively sourced deep dives into this very topic. Cheers
This is the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. You read an article about something you know really well and find all the flaws. Then you look at the next article about a different article and accept it as fact.
I have stopped consuming the news for over 10 years now, and I can attest to being calmer, less distracted and more connected to what really matters. As a consequence I think my overall impact in the world has been more positive than it would have been if I had "stayed informed". Really important news gets to me one way or another... not reading the news doesn't mean I am not aware of what is happening. Another benefit was realizing that the things that actually impact our society are - generally - not on the news until it is "too late". Things that shift society tend to happen on the fringe; be it groundbreaking scientific research, technological developments or societal changes. The news just encapsulates things once they become mainstream enough and 'approved' by those who filter content. The real transformation happens way earlier to the news cycle.
conferences and youtube is all I need
Welcome to the club 👍👍 modern "news" media is so bad i cant even list all the problems.
I read this comment in a Dr Manhattan-type voice
I never regularly watch or read news for my entire life, the only news I usually get is just random viral video type stuff from news outlets (not really news) or just random articles i find on a newspaper my grandpa is still registered to. Sometimes a fluctuation of news will come into my feed but I just try to get rid of all of them cause it feels wrong to me that random or negative news are clogging my recomendations rather than the stuff im actually interestedd in
@@mike13891 thanks?
"You don't need to have an opinion on everything" is something that I really needed to hear
I’ve had this growing intuition that reading history books/learning about historical events allows me to understand world events much more than hearing about which city was bombed in Ukraine today (which is deeply saddening, but since I have no ties to the region, is completely action-less information).
Yes! And it's absolutely frightening to see how fast mainstream media forgets. Once Putin invaded, the virus was no more important. Everybody knows about it, nobody wants to hear it anymore. They were amazed about the war because it meant they could produce so much content out of this, causing, at least where I live, a new wave of infections.
And as soon as they couldn't shock people with bad news about the war anymore, neither the virus nor the war were important, but oh boy does the public need to know about the trial of Amber Heard!
I’ve had people get pissed at me for avoiding the news as if the information would kill me.I have panic attacks & become horribly depressed by it. & without it I am MUCH happier
The way I see things is that if I can’t help directly then there’s nothing I can do. I’m not cruel or selfish for this. Ignorance truly can be bliss, so we need to know in what ways we should be ignorant & what ways we should be knowledge. We can’t help others if we ourselves are miserable
For those interested in this video, I recommend the book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Niel Postman. He describes how the shift from print news to broadcast news has shifted the priority to entertainment and made it more difficult for us to engage in long form discussions that are capable of considering nuance.
Podcasts have become more popular than ever, which could be a societal pushback against the 247 news cycle and its lack of nuance.
@@MidWitPride and why would podcasts want to have any more nuance? They still crave clicks, watch time and upload frequency just as much as 24/7 news.
@@duroburo7039
In support of VLPR, I think that some podcasts can be long and nuanced discussions with experts from related fields. As an example, I like Freakonomics. I don't remember very many other podcasts I like to listen to though. Joe Rogan is an example of how bad podcasts can be: he's more or less a pedestal for popular people to shout from, and there's very little intellectual growth happening on his podcast. I find Freakonomics much more informing than JRE.
@@duroburo7039 Listening to an actual 2 hour discussion is preferable to few minute clips that you get from the news.
Obviously a 2 hour discussion about anything is going to have more nuance, even without the content itself being anything super deep or academic.
@@Paraselene_Tao Even if the content of the podcast isn't anything super intellectual, it's still entirely different kind of format than the dopamine hitting instant news are. To actually listen to a discussion for 2 hours is so much more preferable to just endless doom scrolling and watching few minute snippets about the latest "breaking news".
I do love the "stop reading the news, it makes you anxious." Immediately followed by "if your Facebook gets hacked you'll quickly become a victim of ID theft so buy this thing" 🤣 I can respect you gotta get your bag but I went from calming down to revving up in the space of 10 seconds cause of ads in a video designed to calm.
3:45 to answer "why do we care about things outside of our own lives", I would say that it may allow us to find examples from which we can learn and generalize about reality.
The USA's solution to its population transportation, the "get a car or fuck off" and its failures in public transportation may help us understand why our local transportation policies may work or fail. Random things in life often intertwine with each other, leading to unforeseeable events with great rewards and great risks.
Seeing how bad things can get also help fix our understanding of what a good country, what a good father, and what a good company really is. We can appreciate the luxe and quality of our lives when we know how most people are actually living theirs. Or we may find better lifestyles that we were oblivious to.
But you made a wonderful point. Current news is a bit pile of dogshit that provides no insight and mislead us constantly. It's also abrasive and uninformative for most of us anyway.
I was looking for comments like this
Imo, the most significant critique on the news is the structure of the medium itself. The medium is the message after all. Those pros you said are definitely possible but hard to actually reap considering how the news are presented. But I do agree w/ your answer just as a response to that brief part of the vid.
Since we have a negativity bias, Would you say that good is defined by the bad, or the bad is defined by the good
@@canti7951 I'm pleased you like it. Yeah, we're on the same page. ;)
It's also kind of naive to say that some faraway events don't really affect us in a world where a war in Eastern Europe can cause a political crisis in Southern Asia, or where an authoritarian leader in one country copies the behavior of a similar leader on a different continent. Things can become relevant pretty quick.
I’m always humbled by your evaluation of our societal and human state. I find you very impactful in my life and it always calms me down and changes the way I interact with people. Thanks 🙏
This video genuinely means a lot to me at this time. I stopped reading the news a year ago due to OCD, but lately it has been driving me to check them every hour on the hour. Thank you so much for this reminder.
glad that someone else has that compulsion too 😅 I feel like I have to check otherwise I believe something is going horribly wrong and I’m oblivious to it but then actually checking ALSO makes me feel bad because then I feel bad news is somehow my fault! I’ve been trying to stave off and I’ve been feeling a lot better
The thing is... TH-cam, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter are quickly becoming the exact same thing that we were avoiding in the news. So... It might be advisable to just stay off the internet other than for things like education, research, music, art, games, ACTUAL socializing, etc
I work for a student newspaper, and I pretty much agree with most everything you've said in this video. I do believe constant reporting on random events is still important though, mainly because it keeps politicians on their toes, knowing journalists are constantly seeking to expose their corruption.
Lmao our politicians are already corrupt (in the US), wtf are you on about? You think our politicians are actually afraid of journalists?
@@musicdev If there were no journalists it would be worse. You cannot have a free, functioning democracy without the press.
@@burnedbooksreviews2579 we don’t have a free functioning democracy, again, wtf are you on about? Journalists are important, I’m not saying they’re useless, I’m just saying in the context of the US, we don’t live in a democracy and journalists churn out state propaganda for us to consume. Not exactly doing the population any favors
@@musicdev I'm not trying to disagree with you, I admit that there's major problems with contemporary journalism, although I think calling mainstream journalism state propaganda is a little extreme, the reality is far more nuanced than that. I don't think the relationship between the government and the news media is one of partnership, the media thrives on pointing out government failure, the media's problem is that it's too focused on pointing out the failures of the right as opposed to the left. They certainly have a left-wing slant which needs to be curbed, Democrats need more accountability.
And even if, as you say, we don't have a free functioning democracy, the situation would be a hell of a lot worse if there weren't any good journalists out there working to hard to fix that.
@@burnedbooksreviews2579 they most certainly do *not* have a left-wing bias. You can call it a liberal bias, I certainly would not disagree with that, but if you think liberals are left-wing in any meaningful way, you’ve already gotten off to a bad start.
Unless you think liberals actually challenge the status quo in any way, but I suspect that’s not the case.
The reason I call it State propaganda is because the media manufactured narratives that support various state actions. I’m not going to pretend that a TH-cam comment can cover this really well, but I’d recommend Noam Chomsky’s work on the topic. He wrote a book called ‘Manufacturing Consent’. I’m not saying journalism is bad, but the state of current mainstream journalism is incredibly unproductive and I would personally say more harmful than not.
There is great journalism out there, Carlos Maza (after he broke from Vox) and Renee DiResta both do great work, but it’s nowhere what you could call mainstream. Without independent journalists, I’d certainly say the situation would be worse, but their power and voice is limited by them being not being associated with CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc.
That was a lot but hopefully that all makes sense, typing these out on mobile is hard
the hardest thing to convince some of my younger, more passionate friends is: you dont need to care about everything. If you can't do anything about it, don't worry about it. Yes, people dying on the other side of the world is bad, but what am I, a 20-something in ohio, going to do about it? Not worrying about something is not the same as apathy. It's not that I don't care about the lives of strangers, it's that I'm choosing to worry about things that I can actually do something about. Think about it like this: if you only had enough money to pay rent, would you donate that money to charity, or pay your rent?
I did this myself a few years ago, it made a significant positive difference. Unfortunately being on the internet makes it hard to avoid entirely avoid.
If people gave more of a shit about their local communities as much as they did about global issues we'd probably have a few less global issues to worry about.
This 100%
"Tend to the garden you can touch"
I also feel like cutting of the stream of constant negative news is beneficial for my mental health, BUT at the same time I remember that Christopher Hitchens once said that every day, when he reads the newspaper and gets upset about some form of stupidity/evil in the world, it is a reminder to him, that he hasnt yet become numb on these topics. Being upset shows you that you still have a sense of moral intuition and care about these things, instead of spiraling in a kind of nihilistic indifference, because you cant do anything anyway (not saying that this video is arguing for nihilism tho). Idk something something finding the right balance
Edit: Also, I think a lot of the problems raised stem from general human flaws (confirmation bias for example) and are also a problem when doing more in depth reading. Beyond that, I think theres also a huge difference in quality when it comes to different news sources. There are a lot of "respectable" news sources that dont rely that much on playing into your fears and hyping up scandals etc. To be fair, im german and it seems to me that the american media is often much more polemic and agressive than what I am used too. I like your editing style btw
When the telegraph was invented and the first line was created between London and New York, contemporary people were questioning the effects that the information flood will have on people's mental health - and this happened in the 1800s.
This man really has the balls to call the Daily Stormer "The Daily Pooper"
😁👍
Any news source with "Daily" in it seems to just be crap anyways
@@gast321 Its a neo nazi website
shouldnt take much balls to say something like that
@@gast321 Ain't that the truth?
!!vent!!
i really wish i could send this to my dad
he really does care more about “the end of the world” than he does to his own kids
the news has made him cynical of me and my sister. once i told him i was sensitive to lights and loud sounds in public places and he immediately pointed towards “liberal propaganda” or something like that. he also thought that just bc i happened to be queer and have dyed hair that i’m being “”forced”” into some group?? like huh?? ah yes cause i’m being forced to be a sjw blue hair and pronouce communist furry stereotype or some sh*t because of my hair color, lol. he’s so stuck in this “everybody is coming after me except for these people” mentality that he stops truly caring about his kids when they talk about things that are “correlated to the bad people”, let’s say. it sucks a lot because now i feel like i can’t be myself around him. any inch of personal issues gets shot down as “being brainwashed” or “overreacting”. sigh
My mom is very similar to your dad. I hope you get out of there soon, and until you do, always keep in mind that he is the ridiculous person with the shitty opinions in this situation, not you
My life has always been heavily influenced by political events. I know how bad it is to be addicted to news and at some point I had to develop much healthier approach to news. I definitely don't touch them in the evening and before bed. But I still find it important to learn about and understand what's going on even in seemingly unrelated parts of the world. Whenever I hear Americans thinking events in Russia don't have anything to do with them, I want to smash my head on a wall. We live in a globalized world. Reading books and longer articles is definitely a good idea that I started implementing about 7 years ago.
One important point you missed is that the news that is actually relevant will appear to you sometime, just not when it is breaking news, a bit later. Even though he never reads the news, he probably heard of ukraine.
I'm a long-time fan, and I'm not trying to be mean or rude to you. I thought it was funny or maybe ironic how you tell us to *not watch the news because it's scary and bad for our mental health, and then immediately after that you use fear-mongering to sell Nordpass. 😅
I have PTSD. It might seem advantageous to stick my head in the sand. Instead, I'd rather be very aware of potential threats.
Edit: If I don't have a good idea of what I should be afraid of in specific? I'll just be afraid of everything.😵
The news today told me not to listen to news and now I'm stuck in an infinite loop
Reading the news from time to time is probably a good idea, specially from neutral sources if possible. But watching news on tv is clearly pretty bad for anyone's mental health, and some people do that religiously every day, is insane. My theory is there's no need to watch or read news regularly, if something happens that you need to know, the information will find its way to you in another way.
Also as someone else said in another comment, learning about history way is more important than watching the news, things tend to repeat so knowing what has happened before will let you understand current events better and even take better decisions with that information.
@@Ragnarok540 all fine and good but what's the point of learning all that history if you tune out what's happening now.
@@seansmith3058 again, if something important happens that you need to know, the information will find you.
@@Ragnarok540 I wouldn't count on it. If you are that removed you probably aren't going to understand the significance of what finds its way to you, no matter how much history you read. And even if you do it will probably be too late to do anything about it.
when i was 15 i was really into politics and philosophy and stuff like that but 3 years later i just don't think it is important and my life hasn't changed a bit i just don't get angry about stuff that i cannot change and i no longer argue about this weird religion of the 21st century
Why read a book on the negative effects of the news cycle when I could watch a 12min TH-cam video that upholds my confirmation bias instead?
Strong suspension that you are a jreg enjoyer
@@thewizard1 no idea what that is but you're probably right?
@@LemonCircuits Jreg does satire, it’s good shit tbh
@@musicdev oh nice! thanks for the heads up
I feel called out.
I have watched so many TH-cam videos under the idea that I am educating myself but in reality I probably just need to read some damn books.
Hahaha joke's on you, I don't read the news but I rely on the arcane art of divining through tea leaves and tarot
I haven't read the news in almost a decade except for the really important things that eventually filter through anyway. I can confirm my quality of life has gone up so much. At first I used to worry that I would miss important information, but no, that tends to find you anyway.
hard to do when you work at the news
"Turn on the News" by Husker Du from the album zen arcade is a total jolt of anguish from the collective unconscious of the artist channelling despair of the deconstruction of the human being to a human doing.
I read "Stop Reading the News" a few years ago and cant argue with most of it. For a while I was avoiding all the news and felt better... then the pandemic hit. Since then my consumption has been worse and, honestly, as of right now, the news, at large, is peak doom. Peak fear. Peak misery.
fun fact if you have to use anything that uses gas directly or indirectly the Ukraine war matters
I haven’t read the news, or used social media in over 2 years now. I miss a lot of concerts and I don’t talk to as much people as I used to. There has been no other negative consequences in my life. And really I barely went to the shows I wanted to, and didn’t care about the people who I don’t talk to anymore.
I lost nothing of importance, and gained so much time and peace of mind. It’s how a schizophrenic like me can go from Kanye’s current state to a more introspective mentally balanced person who is aware of their illness.
Why visit R/Collapse when I could talk to my neighbors who openly express excitement for the upcoming race war
Most news dont change your material reality, still you need to live sustainably, and possibly advocate for social programsfor everyone, against cars and for public transport, since that makes people happier jn the long term
"The more relevant the knowledge, the better"
Math majors:
Your videos always come at the most perfect times, sometimes it scares me but it brings me solace that we are all experiencing a collective feeling. You always manage to find the exact words I need to hear in these times, thank you for that over all these years.
And he made his latest (and coming) videos several months ago already.
We should really find a way to change the news then, and the best way to do this is to alter our consumption of it
I really needed this. A couple weeks ago I literally had to ban my parents from talking to me about Joe Biden. We all get it…
I'm going to have to give his book a read, thanks for the great video!
This is such an important view.
Reading through the comments and speaking from my own experience as well, this looming realisation that excessive consumption of media is doing more harm than good is really interesting.
In school, which I finally left after 13 years, we talked a lot about the importance and also power of media of all types, but I personally don't remember us ever discussing why we have to know everything of every part of the world. Of course, the first agrument is, that it is the right thing to do, it's good to be informed.
But this is the point where it stops for the majority, at this first intuition, which I don't think is wrong or anything, but rather it wasn't ever really questioned or critically analysed, since everyone agreed upon it anyway.
This passive awareness of the state of the world has been following me since I got my first phone/access to the internet (I don't remember exactly).
For me and the future generation I'm apart of, we are very aware of the state of the world (at least me and my peers) and that is on one side a good thing, since we try to take some sort of action for i.e. the climate (since we consider the following generations and the future of our planet) but of the other side this acute awarness left many very negative, including myself.
Reading the news is so deeply embedded in your class. For example, you can quite easily predict someone's class based on the newspaper they read. It's difficult to give up this conditioning, but I think worthwhile, I will try.
i never watch the news and still suffer from learned helplessness
EXCLAMATION POINT IN HIS TITLE?!??!!?!?!?!?!?
this is the end times, HAVE to watch this
Thanks for this! I need to disconnect from the news, which I have been watching and reading religiously for years. It just fires up my anxiety and reminds me how helpless I feel to change the big things, e.g. wars. Your video is now saved under my ''self-care'' folder 🙂
I'm pretty sure this is the most entertaining youtube channel I have found and really inspires me to get into philosophy. However, I do not know where to start or really even what I'm looking for
I rubberband between feeling as though I should care and pay attention, and feeling completely hopeless and dismissive about doing so for all the reasons provided. I'm happy about being in neither state, though.
Can I ignore all of the problems the world faces? How do I know I'm even adequately informed about them? How do I know I'm not completely ignorant to the existence of some of them? Can I even do anything to significantly help in solving any of these problems anyway? I have no satisfying answers to these questions, yet I can't find peace in just opting to do what this video suggests. As was mentioned, to not try and stay engaged with the goings-on of the world is something only the privileged can really do, and whether I am or not, how can I morally justify doing this?
It's kinda hard for me to think this way now when the nuclear war is inevitable.
The incentive for negativity and thirst for engagement is a symptom of commercialized news, unlike public broadcasters that have almost guaranteed funding.
What about watching TH-cam video essays?
For most "breaking news" topics, I read around 5+ articles on the event/topic to compare the journaling lol
Wow. Thank you so much for this video. Very succinct observation, and therapeutic even. Been spiraling since the pandemic began and I realize that a lot of my stress and panic can be attributed to my feral consumption of news. It’s the first thing I do when I wake up, it’s terrible. I feel like this video is the push I needed to change my lifestyle so I can be happy again.
To quote Paul Simon: "I get the news I need on the weather report"
I hope that news in the future will be less about what's most attention catching and more about the developing problems, things that slowly are compiling to something bigger, as Sisyphus said
I've never really watched/paid attention to the news of my own accord.
I think I'm a bit less worried than most people. I've seen people talk about all this irrelevant whatnot and doesn't feel very healthy.
How I see it, "If it ain't important enough to talk about in day to day life, does it really matter?"
Crazy. I took this approach a few weeks ago. It took a while to unfollow and block everyone who posts news but according to my wife there's been quite a few things that have happened that I just don't know.
I just want to know what effects me, there's too much tragedy on a global scale for me to be able to effect the outcome. Locally I am important. I adopted a kitten I found. I caught its mother and father and had them spayed and neutered. This helped my community, and made a difference in my life
This is why I only read The Onion, the most reputable news source
Causes panic attacks
Rember, these journalists do not care about informing you, they simply want clicks to gain ad revenue.
At the risk of confirmation bias and sinking your head in the sand... This was roughly how I survived 2020 with my mental health.
After being a news addict to 2016, and seeing covid turning into a pandemic when March 2020 hit, I had enough common sense to realize things were going to get worse before they became better, and that my mental health would be impacted negatively by it, to the point I would need treatment. I unplugged from the news and from a lot of social media, leaving it only for rightful entertainment.
And then... I realized I was better off.
Some of those news still leaked in, mind, but I think a lot of communities I stuck into realized we all wanted sanity and distance from all of that shit. While it was definitely hard, and I knew that there *were* horrible events in 2020... I survived it with my mental health. I realized how a lot of that media, even a LOT of TH-camrs, *depended* on you being terrified, angry, anxious, ever-consuming, and turned into their particular side. Even for the dumbest and most inconsequential shit. There's far worse things happening where I live, and I realized it was the height of absurdity to be more worried about stuff away from me than stuff where I live in. There's truth about the saying "if it bleeds, it leads."
At first I thought it was hostile indifference, not watching the news. But even people I told I didn't watch the news, said I did right by not doing that. And... looking back on a lot of content, I'm realizing how pervasive a lot of that hamster wheel of doomscrolling exists everywhere.
I'll be searching for that book. Thank you so much for your video and your recommendation.
You are probably right. My life is terrible enough as it is without adding to it by also reading the news.
Was it just me how never actually bin on a news site I just hear though mouth
All the news does is make me angry. It puts me in a really bad mood throughout the day… i feel like i should just stop watching the news or listening because it’s all just depressive shit anyway. Definitely toxic for your mental health.
I hope you have a great day, Sisyphus! Thank you for making these videos :)
Thank you for this piece of inner peace! Also, hot take as a non-Albertan, Edmonton is n objectively irrelevant city. Fight me if you wish
9:12 bullsh*t mountain has never been so accurately depicted
Omg 30 seconds in and this video is about ME. I used to never read news because I'd decided long ago it made me grumpy and anxious. Then covid happened and some other stressful things, now I can't stop! I've cut down somewhat...it was so bad I was reading news when I should have been working. But I'm still freaking myself out and wasting my life! I have so many things I want to do but I feel compelled to witness all of life's misery now, as if looking away means I'm a heartless b@stard. I hate this 😭
I love how my favorite youtubers decide to post videos just when I have to study.... guess imma study later then
Good video Alex!
Siuu
How you comment yesterday?
How tf?
@@noturgamergf1917 Gnomes are magical creatures
@@joshcide This.
I completely agree. Starting the day by reading the news has ruined many days for me.
Excellente vidéo. Merci!
Realmente aprecio tus videos. eres muy talentoso en la forma en que puedes poner en palabras los pensamientos que tengo y al mismo tiempo enseñarme sobre figuras históricas que no conocía. le haces bien al mundo mi amigo. Me alegro de que existamos en el mismo momento en el tiempo.
Thank you so much for this video! I've been trying to put these sort of thoughts to words for some time now, especially with my partner.
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My only true consultation in this violent, cruel and beautiful horseshit we live: Kali Ma will dance upon all substance in the universe, and snatch up all people egos for her necklace of souls. But above all: the great void mother, who acts through the cycle of Karma with impunity, loves her children.
I always think of this story when I see the overreaction and hype around newscycles
Once there was an old man who lived in a tiny village. Although poor, he was envied by all, for he owned a beautiful white horse. Even the king coveted his treasure. A horse like this had never been seen before - such was its splendor, its majesty, its strength.
People offered fabulous prices for the steed, but the old man always refused. “This horse is not a horse to me,” he would tell them. “It is a person. How could you sell a person? He is a friend, not a possession. How could you sell a friend.” The man was poor and the temptation was great. But he never sold the horse.
One morning he found that the horse was not in his stable. All the village came to see him. “You old fool,” they scoffed, “we told you that someone would steal your horse. We warned you that you would be robbed. You are so poor. How could you ever protect such a valuable animal? It would have been better to have sold him. You could have gotten whatever price you wanted. No amount would have been to high. Now the horse is gone and you’ve been cursed with misfortune.”
The old man responded, “Don’t speak too quickly. Say only that the horse is not in the stable. That is all we know; the rest is judgment. If I’ve been cursed or not, how can you know? How can you judge?”
The people contested, “Don’t make us out to be fools! We may not be philosophers, but great philosophy is not needed. The simple fact that your horse is gone is a curse.”
The old man spoke again. “All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don’t know. Whether it be a curse or a blessing, I can’t say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next?”
The people of the village laughed. They thought that the man was crazy. They had always thought he was a fool; if he wasn’t, he would have sold the horse and lived off the money. But instead, he was a poor woodcutter, and old man still cutting firewood and dragging it out of the forest and selling it. He lived hand to mouth in the misery of poverty. Now he had proven that he was, indeed, a fool.
After fifteen days, the horse returned. He hadn’t been stolen; he had run away into the forest. Not only had he returned, he had brought a dozen wild horses with him. Once again, the village people gathered around the woodcutter and spoke. “Old man, you were right and we were wrong. What we thought was a curse was a blessing. Please forgive us.”
The man responded, “Once again, you go too far. Say only that the horse is back. State only that a dozen horses returned with him, but don’t judge. How do you know if this is a blessing or not? You see only a fragment. Unless you know the whole story, how can you judge? You read only one page of a book. Can you judge the whole book? You read only one word of one phrase. Can you understand the entire phrase?”
“Life is so vast, yet you judge all of life with one page or one word. All you have is one fragment! Don’t say that this is a blessing. No one knows. I am content with what I know. I am not perturbed by what I don’t.”
“Maybe the old man is right,” they said to one another. So they said little. But down deep, they knew he was wrong. They knew it was a blessing. Twelve wild horses had returned. With a little work, the animals could be broken and trained and sold for much money.
The old man had a son, an only son. The young man began to break the wild horses. After a few days, he fell from one of the horses and broke both legs. Once again the villagers gathered around the old man and cast their judgments.
“You were right,” they said. “You proved you were right. The dozen horses were not a blessing. They were a curse. Your only son has broken both his legs, and now in your old age you have no one to help you. Now you are poorer than ever.”
The old man spoke again. “You people are obsessed with judging. Don’t go so far. Say only that my son broke his legs. Who knows if it is a blessing or a curse? No one knows. We only have a fragment. Life comes in fragments.”
It so happened that a few weeks later the country engaged in war against a neighboring country. All the young men of the village were required to join the army. Only the son of the old man was excluded, because he was injured. Once again the people gathered around the old man, crying and screaming because their sons had been taken. There was little chance that they would return. The enemy was strong, and the war would be a losing struggle. They would never see their sons again.
“You were right, old man,” They wept. “God knows you were right. This proves it. Your son’s accident was a blessing. His legs may be broken, but at least he is with you. Our sons are gone forever.”
The old man spoke again. “It is impossible to talk with you. You always draw conclusions. No one knows. Say only this. Your sons had to go to war, and mine did not. No one knows if it is a blessing or a curse. No one is wise enough to know. Only God knows.
Rather than stop reading the news, it'd be good to take a break from social media as a whole
Plus you won't read crappy comments from trolls and ignoramus on news channels or media comments section
Not if you are a international relations or economic student I guess
I stopped completely during covid. I feel pretty good
This exact topic has been on my mind. I needed this. Thanks for the excellent video!
Jreg "you are running out of time"
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I read the news today, oh boy
And though the news was rather sad 🎵
He was a Young American.
I don't agree with the notion that we shouldn't read the news. The news that i'm watching and reading almost always give background information. You can consume news and also read books and listen to podcasts. I think that is the most ideal.
Thanks Sisyphus. This video is really appreciated.
Every video is a banger
I stopped taking the news seriously many years ago. Almost none of it affects me in a way that will make me change how I live.
Does this count as news about ignoring news?
No.
@@maraknows416 I guess Mara knows
If this was one of those clickbaity yt videos where it's basically just a rant, not an essay, then yes
@@canti7951 so news are only news if they are clickbait?
That sounds like a bad definition, considering that it has nothing to do with the actual content of the news, but just its title and presentation.
In my opinion this video's thumbnail and title is clickbait, but I still like the actual video.
@@duroburo7039 I'd say a rant and an essay would also differ in their content. A rant would have more emotional effect and focuses on things that will engage the viewer passionately. Though you're right, news comes in different forms, I'm just trying to compare its structure to the state of youtube, basically. What is being criticized here is news as a tendency, not semantically. I don't mean to say all news is bad.
This brings back memories of hello internet
You know what they say, if it bleeds, it leads
@Alkalez people who criticize the news
Read Chomsky!
"you want to feel sad, look at the news"
Bob Ross
I would have to disagree with some points. I think people do want to be a part of something but lack the *media literacy* to properly engage in it, that's why misinformation and conspiracies exists. There are people out there that are very involved in their communities that revolve around their identity, culture and neighborhood and understand a bit on the cause and effects of events they happen outside of their bubble, which is the opposite of some of what Dobelli is saying. If you want to live peacefully ignorant in your bubble that's fine, but taking a step back and analyzing why it's being shown to you is not a skill that the general (American) public is not equipped with, and neither give incentive to look more into it which I agree where biases step in.
8:18 115% agree great question to ask yourself and also others in debate