I'm always reminded by TV's 24/7 news coverage of Bill Murray in the 80s Christmas comedy movie "Scrooged" when he says he want his audience to be terrified they might miss the Christmas special. You have to watch. Your life might depend on it.Erm. You life doesn't depend on information about political posturing, and real and fake threats from without and within. Most people's lives would be exactly the same with or without up to the minute information about "current events" but we've somehow become convinced that we need it to survive.
What else do you call something you don't need which you have to ingest all the time because you've been trained to believe you need it?
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Loving the work so far Phil.
I get hooked into the news sometimes. But if you fall off the world for a while you always find it's pretty much the same when you reconnect. A bit like soaps.
It's easy think that your the only one who thinks a certain way. Like watching humanity from the outside.
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