For the first time, less than 40% of adults worldwide have a net worth under $10,000, down from 75% in 2000. Big stories often get lost, even if important. Why news consumption is like entertainment.
What I've been learning from Substack has been so life-changing and even identity-changing! This is a much more positive identity, spreading optimism where few are!
Great text and thank you for talking about this. Three years ago I quit watching and listening to mainstream media, news in particular, and my life became so much better after this. Now I'm on a next level which is reducing Facebook and Instagram. I've already deleted TikTok and my goal is to spend less and less time on these apps. However, the time I'm willing to spend on these apps will be used for content creation rather than consumption.
That's really great, especially the content creation bit! I have so much respect for people who quit the news early on - it's like you understood what was happening before so many of us did.
Abigail, absolutely. These people are unstoppable. I aspire to be one of those individuals who, after a few decades, when the truth is self-evident, can confidently say, "See, I told you it was a lie from the beginning."
The tendency of the media to focus on the negative clashes with our biological wiring that remembers the past favorably.
That is why we are always so glum about the present, I call this the reality distortion field: https://www.lianeon.org/p/progress-is-counterintuitive
Its also a reason I get most of my “news” from @Substack, we are better informed here.
What I've been learning from Substack has been so life-changing and even identity-changing! This is a much more positive identity, spreading optimism where few are!
I know right? This is the only "social media" that I use now.
Great text and thank you for talking about this. Three years ago I quit watching and listening to mainstream media, news in particular, and my life became so much better after this. Now I'm on a next level which is reducing Facebook and Instagram. I've already deleted TikTok and my goal is to spend less and less time on these apps. However, the time I'm willing to spend on these apps will be used for content creation rather than consumption.
That's really great, especially the content creation bit! I have so much respect for people who quit the news early on - it's like you understood what was happening before so many of us did.
Abigail, absolutely. These people are unstoppable. I aspire to be one of those individuals who, after a few decades, when the truth is self-evident, can confidently say, "See, I told you it was a lie from the beginning."