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Negativity and wedge issues sell. Keep your head up and don't let them play you out. It's all for money or power ...or both. I think people just never wanted to see how dark reality is and now it's showing how naive the common person is to the evil in the world.
It's like all the horrible things they played out to be history or entertainment are actually real and that we were just told it's all in the past so "tHeY" could keep us subservient with a false sense of security.
Every time I see people try to blame the media on this, I look at my medical bills, I look at my bank account, I look at the temperature, I look at the cost of housing, I look at the vacant seats where my coworkers sat before they were let go, I look at the election results, I look at my sister who had her right to an abortion stolen, I look at the hateful people that vandalized my trans partner's car...
And I think, damn..the media sure has some real reach, don't they? They're really going all out to make me miserable. I mean, this is some impressive commitment to a narrative. One day I'm gonna break free and live in this reality where "Everything is fine, actually" with the rest of you but first I gotta figure out how the media has me in the Truman Show situation.
I mean, yeah pretty much. It's been a few decades of sensationalism, anti-intellectualism, and capitalism-is-patriotism rhetoric, but we got here. It's not entirely the media, but the media definitely has a huge impact.