My problem with this is really simple: You do see the scaling effect in stuff like corona or on a sunny sunday:
Suddenly everyone is going to the park.
What if suddenly everyone stops looking at news? Acting and reacting?
What if the stress i get through the news will never be necessary but what if there is another regime and we need everyone being on alert and standing up and knowing whats going on?
Yin and Yang, finding the balance in our generation is not easy. I get that, i see that, i experience it myself but while i'm sometimes ready to not care i'm worried that i might not react correctly anymore when it counts.
You can't cut out news completely, obviously you're going to hear stuff from other people or through other means. But I think cutting out almost all news media is a good choice to make.
My reasoning is this: most of the stuff in the general news is something you can do absolutely nothing about, at most it may influence your choices at election time or best case inform you about a scandal involving some company, letting you avoid doing business with them in the future.
Everything else is just noise that creates anxiety.
Suddenly everyone is going to the park.
What if suddenly everyone stops looking at news? Acting and reacting?
What if the stress i get through the news will never be necessary but what if there is another regime and we need everyone being on alert and standing up and knowing whats going on?
Yin and Yang, finding the balance in our generation is not easy. I get that, i see that, i experience it myself but while i'm sometimes ready to not care i'm worried that i might not react correctly anymore when it counts.