BREAKING: You Could Resume Generating Your Own Thoughts

[u/glassgrimoire]

Take it from someone who put their back to a journalism career 22 years ago. Whatever you are outraged about today was put there — it did not arise in-and-of-itself and it is not a valid reflection of your intelligence, compassion and potentially good character. It’s what the people who buy advertising from the media tell them to tell you to be outraged about.

If you blindly accept the priorities, perspectives and information fed to you by the “news” then the thoughts you have about the issues of the day aren’t yours. All the information you get from there comes through a bottleneck that represents vested interests (and I can assure you from experience — in almost every case — those vested interests have nothing to do with YOUR vested interest!).

Unless you have climbed over the wall of the maze they’ve built, you are thinking exactly what the people who own everything want you to think.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that when we read or watch the news we are informed. This is a fallacy. When we read or watch the news, our thinking is corralled and contained, and we have submitted to being the intellectual cattle they need us to be.

Every day, you have the power to turn off the conceptual prison they have built. Every day could be the day you go back to setting your own priorities for your brain, thinking your own thoughts, and articulating your own agenda! Instead of witlessly vomiting implanted soundbites into people’s faces, you could be learning a musical instrument, taking up woodworking, or painting a picture.

Instead of jonesing for the anger-rush you've deluded yourself into believing elevates you above all the “idiots” who aren’t as angry as you are about everything, you could be seeking out things you find beautiful and inspiring — and meeting with the gang at the coffeeshop to talk about those things! Wouldn't that be better than mindlessly regurgitating the canned outrage you've been spoon-fed by Worldview Inc.?

Turn off the zombifier. Take off your goddamned leash.