if you remove tv, centralised social media, mainstream news from your field of vision for long enough, it's amazing what you start to see. your own perspective free of someone else's agenda.
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I like documentaries on cable. And high budget TV shows.
absolutely that's not to say there's not art in television. i adore so much film and documentary and cinema. it's not the same thing.
television as it's evolved as a medium has turned into the governments direct channel in to the brains of nations.
the same with post. what letters do people receive these days other than correspondence from the government? In the UK delivered by our esteemed 'Royal Mail' who we are told to worship like servicemen returning from the Great War
I met a young person who had a dumb phone which surprised me. The reasoning was that smartphone is too addictive.
My approach is to filter the bad stuff instead. It's better if one can muster the willpower.
how can you gauge the influence the narrative being presented to you is having on your worldview would be my question to that approach. unless you spend some time removing yourself from the noise to form a baseline. not that this matters, not a judgement in the slightest
With practice one becomes desensitized to media overall. No need to fall in love with a porn star just to bust a nut.