To an extent, I agree. But sticking our heads in the sand and ignoring events around us doesn’t make them go away either. We just need to sift a lot of it out, but find key ones to change
There’s also a pretty wide gulf between “staying informed about the world while bettering your life and creating family and community” and “burying your head in the sand” and “sitting inside and doomscrolling for every validating perspective on every issue until you look around and you’re 40 and never had a date.”
This comic isn’t telling us to ignore the news. It’s telling us to not engage with incendiary media personalities, like Megyn Kelly. Their entire strategy is to piss people off, because an angry viewer is an engaged viewer. Whenever someone posts something awful that Kelly or someone like her said, they’re actually helping that media personality. The only way to defeat them is to not engage.
We should always engage with current events and the news, but be media literate enough to spot the trolls.
Yes, keep your bliss. She says things so hateful they made Charlie Kirk look tame. Sometimes people will post on Lemmy about some of the hateful shit she says and then I get downvoted for explaining that they’re helping her brand.
There is a Tipping Point in that strategy though. Because eventually if every single person who knows she’s full of shit ignores her then the only people that listen to her are people that believe her. And they don’t see anyone saying anything else so clearly she’s right. That’s the conclusion they’ll draw. And of course the number of people that believe that will just keep growing . There has to be some pushback.
Really, the outrage dealers have such a corrosive effect on public discourse that it is probably better to remain completely uninformed than to be informed through them.
Plant a tree. Volunteer at your local food pantry. I am a full believe in tackling smaller problems more local to you. Trying to tackle the world’s problems will only end up with you feeling angry and sad all the time.
To an extent, I agree. But sticking our heads in the sand and ignoring events around us doesn’t make them go away either. We just need to sift a lot of it out, but find key ones to change
There’s also a pretty wide gulf between “staying informed about the world while bettering your life and creating family and community” and “burying your head in the sand” and “sitting inside and doomscrolling for every validating perspective on every issue until you look around and you’re 40 and never had a date.”
This comic isn’t telling us to ignore the news. It’s telling us to not engage with incendiary media personalities, like Megyn Kelly. Their entire strategy is to piss people off, because an angry viewer is an engaged viewer. Whenever someone posts something awful that Kelly or someone like her said, they’re actually helping that media personality. The only way to defeat them is to not engage.
We should always engage with current events and the news, but be media literate enough to spot the trolls.
Id ask who Megyn Kelly is, but the context tells me I should just keep my bliss
Yes, keep your bliss. She says things so hateful they made Charlie Kirk look tame. Sometimes people will post on Lemmy about some of the hateful shit she says and then I get downvoted for explaining that they’re helping her brand.
There is a Tipping Point in that strategy though. Because eventually if every single person who knows she’s full of shit ignores her then the only people that listen to her are people that believe her. And they don’t see anyone saying anything else so clearly she’s right. That’s the conclusion they’ll draw. And of course the number of people that believe that will just keep growing . There has to be some pushback.
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play”
Is this from War Games?
It is.
Really, the outrage dealers have such a corrosive effect on public discourse that it is probably better to remain completely uninformed than to be informed through them.
Plant a tree. Volunteer at your local food pantry. I am a full believe in tackling smaller problems more local to you. Trying to tackle the world’s problems will only end up with you feeling angry and sad all the time.