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: It's always been interesting to me, since at least the 1980s, that many of the same people who say you can't trust what you see on tv news/analysis and in the newspapers are tend to be the same ones telling everyone about everything awful and outrageous that's going on and what to think about it... that they saw on the tv news and/or read in the newspapers. It's almost as if they only mistrust the stuff they don't read that's by the people they don't like and that the other guys write about.
: Emotions are meant to be ephemeral, indicators on your mental dashboard to let you know what's going on. They're not meant to control you or be what others use to control you. You have agency. You are your own agent.
: It winds up being all "think critically, but don't worry because you will soon jettison most of that critical thinking by getting really angry, sad, frustrated, indignant, shocked, stunned, mortified, depressed, and outraged about it and everything else you're ngry, sad, frustrated, indignant, shocked, stunned, mortified, depressed, and outraged about". That leads to short-term solutions that lead to short-term responses that keep the cycle going forever.
At least there's dopamine hit, right?