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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    115·
    4 days ago

    Checking my local newspaper, turning on the TV, and logging into my favorite social media. Everywhere I go it’s the same message - liberals are to blame.

    What other conclusion am I supposed to draw?

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        82·
        3 days ago

        Critical thinking without useful information is just teleology. You’re stuck doing Thomas Acquinus shit or Aristotilianisn when you have an abundance of analytical skill but you’re working from fundamentally biased or outright manufactured sources.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          3 days ago

          The information is there. I’ve had no problem keeping informed. It has been a drain on my mental health, but it’s very doable.

          Just stay away from bullshit social media, first and foremost.

          • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
            5·
            3 days ago

            Yeah, that’s not a sustainable way to keep the majority informed. Most don’t have the availability to do this extra work between jobs and family.

              • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
                1·
                2 days ago

                I used to think that too until I grasped how much intellectual labor goes into the process.

                I’m educated properly and it takes me a very long time to sift through the mud to stay informed. Some of my friends are educated properly as well and they fall behind / fall for some bullshit because they don’t have the time to do the work. If they spend the time, they figure it out. And that’s the trick, education gives the capability, but one still needs to do the work in order to stay informed. Doing this work requires time available, and a steady mental health. Both of those are actively taken away by the ever increasing cost of living (demands of the system). And most have to do the same work to stay informed.

                • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  1·
                  1 day ago

                  I’m educated properly and it takes me a very long time to sift through the mud to stay informed.

                  I really don’t have this issue…?

                  I don’t go on facebook or other social media so I don’t see that bullshit. And I don’t watch news on the TV, be it 24 hour news or any other.

                  I get most of my news from news.google.com, and then clicking on “full coverage” (or whatever that button says now they’re constantly changing it) so I can get an overview of several sources reporting on the same topic.

                  I will sometimes learn about news on lemmy, but I will always independently confirm it (takes 15 seconds) before considering it fact.

                  It’s so fucking easy, I’m sorry. There is no excuse.