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Post-news regret

Posted by cyangorilla - January 18th, 2022

Post-news regret

Just like with post-nut regret, don't you ever think 'why did I even open this site' after reading the news for any amount of time?

Every single time I read any news sites, news related twitter accounts, or get a whatsapp message with some news in it, they offer little to no relevant information for my daily life and make me feel worse.


What's the point? Why do I even go back? I don't understand it, really. It's garbage. It's like eating rotten food, it offers no benefits. It's portrayed as 'relevant information' but it never is. In reality my life was better without that information, and the information was probably wrong or biased anyway.


More and more of it seems to be trying to make me feel worse. Or to feel something toward people ('hate this group', 'follow this other group'). It's not information, it's marketing and opinion. And my problems are the same, outside of anything they present: what do I have to send to clients today? what will I make for dinner? will I go to the gym? will we hangout a bit with my gf? is my family alright? are my in-laws alright? will the Nuggets play? does the bird nesting outside have enough food? ...


Why do I add outside garbage to that? What the hell do I care about someone being mad at Elon Musk? or who does what in a country I'll never visit?


What do I care if some politician says anything at all? their job is to pretend they are capable for managing something they can't begin to understand...


'But your life is affected by these things'

Is it, really? And if it is, how does having second hand knowledge about it help me to reduce how much it affects my life? Can I really do something with the information presented or should I just feel doom and gloom? How useful is it for me to know a 5 year-old was murdered by his mom and her gf? or how a 3 year-old was murdered by her grandmother? or how a 20-something-year-old was killed after someone took his car and crashed it with him on top? or how the same people who've been in some branch of power for decades now have all the answers?


So, whenever I'm done reading the news I always think 'now I feel worse, ashamed, and with no idea on why I even did it'. I should probably just quit it, since it's shit anyway.


(this is not a partisan position; left, right, center, official communications, unofficial channels, conspiracy theorists on every side, insane wackos that seem to change positions on everything every 5 minutes, hypocrites, honest people, fact checkers [these are the worst, honestly], saints, and demons... and yes, goblins too)

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CIEIRMusic

I only watch the news for the pandemic progress, which president screwed up what, local shit and the weather. Any information I need I either look up or ask someone I know about it. The News has always been like that though. The Pandemic simply made it more noticeable in the past couple years. I do not define myself by it, nor do I let it dictate my actions. I don't care what anyone else says, you did the right thing. Just look up what you need to look up.

cyangorilla

I just enjoyed my days better when people didn't go around repeating the same 3 talking points in the news. I'll keep the process of just looking things up when I remember and that's it :D

Cheers!

Ickicky

It's all down to you chomskyhonk, narrow the scope of your interests. If you care about your community maybe just reading your local newspaper or going to local news website would be enough for you. Like Cieirmusic said, they look at the news for updates on the pandemic and local shit.

You strike me as a person who wants to be informed on things that might interest you, but you keep getting your information from sour sources. Ask yourself what you'd like to be informed on and what you value and find a place you can get that from. If not just cut it out.

Good luck gorilla

cyangorilla

I will, I'll look up specific stuff that matters to me. If something is so important that I should focus on it, I'll probably hear about it anyway :)

S3C

I agree with all this and that's why one of my 2022 goals is to become 'blue-pilled'

oh cool you like the Nuggets? is it because of Facundo Campazzo?

cyangorilla

No blue-pilling for me, I'm to stay as red-pilled and based as humanly possible.

I do follow the Nuggets because of Facu, but lately I'm enjoying watching basketball in general thanks to them. Jokić is a treat to watch, and I might be mad at the Suns for the last play-offs but they are entertaining as hell.

SkankyMojo

I 100% agree and I'm trying my best to cut news out too.

CIEIRMusic

@cyangorilla Speaking of the three time repeat. You should check out a show called the Wrong Coast. It's a news parody show starring Mark Hamill. At one point they make fun of the repeating news, by simply repeating the headline over and over again in different tones.

Gimmick

Same here, I used to read the news every day, then every other day, then every week and finally stopped. Once in a while I do go to CBC (I guess NPR would be your equivalent) and check some stories out to practice my french. But by and large I don't seek out the news, I moreso happen to encounter it while browsing reddit and such.

Reading the news is a matter of being informed, but each publisher has their bias, so getting a balanced viewpoint involves a lot of work in evaluating and weighing opinions. It's exhausting to do, and I don't fault anyone who doesn't, because I'd be a hypocrite otherwise.

That said, it does come with the caveat that being uninformed on a topic and speaking about it anyway should be forbidden - I'm reminded of all the people who disparage CRT without having the slightest idea what it actually is.

cyangorilla

The equivalent here would be TVPública, and I cannot fathom a reason to watch that partisan hellhole everyone has to support with their taxes other than the football national team's matches.

I wouldn't say people who read the news are particularly more informed about much. They generally repeat what the news person said or someone else's opinion on what the news person said. I would never tell them they can't speak about something they are uninformed about, though. In my view, everyone should be able to speak their mind, even if they are absolutely nonsensical.

Gimmick

@cyangorilla Ah, didn't notice you were based in Argentina, sorry. And yes, you can't really tell people they shouldn't speak about something, but their opinion certainly should be taken much less seriously than someone who actually knows what they're saying.

Unfortunately the trend I see happening worldwide is that ignorant people are given as much screen time and validity as the experts, so you have people spouting nonsense and others accepting it because they think they have an idea of what they are talking about. At least blindly trusting the experts is good, but readily accepting an ignorant person's opinion is the blind leading the blind.

cyangorilla

I can't agree with the 'blindly trusting the experts is good' part, not at all. Even when going to the doctor, one usually asks for a second opinion. Experts are not infallible, nor necessarily unbiased, specially those with a political or financial incentive to push a view (see the opioid crisis as a clear example of this).

Gimmick

@cyangorilla Yeah, one should always think for themselves, but even IF they don't, the downsides of blindly listening to experts is so-so, whereas listening to anyone else blindly can quickly turn into a dumpster fire.

GordonRamses

The only news show I frequent is the David Lynch Weather Report on the DAVID LYNCH THEATER YouTube channel. If you don't know Lynch, he's a guy who made a bunch of strange movies since the 70's and is super into all kinds of art like painting, lithography, and music. His report is usually one to two minutes. It's basically just him talking about the daily weather in L. A. and giving a music recommendation. It's very comfy to wake up to and watch. :)

Nekidcoboy

Like tasting rotten food, smelling the finger or watching footage of bad events or moronic politicians - it's for awareness sake. It's in the genes, in the blood and it serves its purpose. You need to look at bad stuff to understand what IS bad. You easily can filter bias, opinion and gloom out if you're smart and levelheaded. To be unaware is what bad actors want you to be.

cyangorilla

No, I don't think it's in the genes, nor that it is necessary to understand what IS bad. Watching footage of bad events is useful? Huh? I saw a video of a bunch of boats getting crushed by a rock coming off a mountain side, am I more aware now?

And how useful is it to be aware of things that you'll never encounter in your life (i.e. there are no hurricanes, earthquakes or tsunamis here)? Shouldn't you try to limit that so you are not distracted by everything?

I don't need the news to tell me I live in a 3rd world country with 50% of its population in poverty and that it's bad that that's the case. Neither do I need them to know that having over 51% annual inflation is bad. I also don't believe them counting dead people one by one is useful at all when there is no comparison point nor any use for it other than overly focusing on negativity. I don't need to read about the latest rape or murder to know these are possible and bad. I don't need to read about the latest dumb shit a politician said to know politicians are overwhelmingly unprepared to manage a small savings account, let alone a country or a province. And I don't care at all about a country I cannot place on a map and its political situation.

That about covers everything you find in any news site front page (obviously disregarding entertainment, tech, and sports news). So where is the benefit? I get sick if I eat the rotten fruit, that's why knowing it's rotten is useful, but learning mostly useless information just seems to me a way to get distracted from actually important things and pretending that I'm doing the right thing by staying 'informed'.

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