Post by EGKI've tried to
avoid these kinds of stories as much as possible. It drives me mad with all
the important things going on in the world that our media is obsessed with
the Kardashians and now this. Even main stream news sites are like the Star
and Enquirer nowadays.
Ever wonder if the Caitlin type media distractions are not an accident, but intentional?
I've easily solved all the noise and media static coming from the mainstream media. I simply turned it all off. I gave away the last TV I owed a couple years ago and only consume what I consciously choose to download and watch on the big screen computer.
I don't have media playing in the background either. I listen to music and carefully chosen podcasts and video clips of news. I read a lot. I try to learn. I am happier now than I ever was with the squawk box sitting in the corner blaring propaganda for dozens of things for me to buy, from soap detergent to fucked up foreign policies that stream from the same group that controls Tinseltown and Capital Hill.
I can't control the media, but I can turn it off, and I did. I am free.
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