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Here’s Your Life Hack: Stop Watching the News
Because it poisons your brain
I’m biased, but let me attempt to paint the most positive argument for why you should watch the news, why you should be informed, why you should stay up to date with the latest in geopolitics, foreign policy, election cycles, and the like.
You want to be informed. You don’t want to live your life in a bubble where you’re only concerned with your self-interested thoughts. The events that unfold in the political arena impact your life directly. Foreign policy issues can definitely reach home — we’re only a mere 82 years from it happening and 59 years from it almost happening. Heck, if you count terrorist attacks on U.S. soil both foreign and domestic, one could posit that we’re constantly under threat.
If you’re not informed, you won’t be able to make decisions that can impact your life. Being informed helps you vote for the right representatives who represent your ideals, who will vote for and pass laws that will positively affect your condition, who will ensure that nefarious actors don’t get too much power to cause the opposite to happen.
From healthcare to the economic impact of tax cuts to wildlife conversation policies (or lack therof) to the existential threat of climate change to impeachment to drone strikes to kids in cages to secret…
