By Kevin Viani
Imagine pulling something out of your pocket that does nothing but scare you. Or sitting on your couch and having your mind poisoned by the televison. Having a machine that you buy subcriptions to give fear and pushes anxiety. They also can throw in package deal and you can subscribe to hate.
Everyday this is what a lot of people program their minds with using their cell phones. Spending hours a day watching content making you sad, angry, and full of hate.
A video gets posted, dialouge gets sparked, and now youre giving yourself arthritis wrting about why this person is wrong and very stupid.
A notification pops up on your phone, and you see an individual wrote a full essay expressing why youre wrong and also very stupid.
So now its time to rebuttle and you enter this endless war of exchanges of words online that is pointless. There is never a winner when your the one in the comment section.
A lot of people have become so addicted to the 24 hours news cycle. It consumes their entire life and has them in a state of mania. It doesn't help you or your online enemy when either of you engage in keyboard wars.
I used to get lost consuming hours of news and it made me depressed. My outlook for the world became dark. I didn't want to be around people, because the news told me i might die if i did.
One day i made the decision to delete some social media apps and to not watch the news.
I went outside.
It was crazy that all of the madness i saw on the news was not happening outside, on every corner in the world.
I saw familes playing at parks, people eating at a deli, and friends enjoying themselve at a bar. I felt i had been lied to and wasted time listening to the advice of our “leaders”
Of course there is a bunch of horrible shit going on in the world, but watching it on the news, and then posting hateful opionons online does ZERO good for the world. You just became a pawn in their game of nuclear chess. You're doing exactly what they want you to do.
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