When I was young, my (grand)parents instilled in me the idea that it was important to stay up to date with current affairs, to watch the daily (government channel) news, read the newspaper etc. It’s how I lived through the 90s.

In the early days of the internet I tuned out from that and got a lot of “You don’t read a newspaper at all?! But how do you keep up?!”

Looking back now, all the people who did try to “keep up” got their brains turbo fried by government propaganda which was set up to slow boil them, especially during, and post covid.

Their advantage was that they could still relate to each other as normies, but the disadvantage was they were being programmed to hate everything not toeing the line (we have always been at war with Eastasia, etc).

Hence the boomer extremism and hate we see everywhere today in especially Europe. Less so in the US where there had always been more diversity of media, and so people got fried, but in different directions.

And so in my family the culture is now the radical opposite. We don’t watch the news, we stay off the algorithm hell apps, and we keep our circle deliberately small. Fuck everything else, fuck the zombification of society, fuck politics and all your manufactured outrage.