I have been thinking about this for years. In the past I thought I should limit my intake a bit, but as quite often when living at home our meal time coincided with the TV News broadcast it was unavoidable, sometimes resulting in anger over each others take, or comprehension of events. Occasionally we'd have something else on over meal times - a quiz, or a comedy. News doesn't make a good accompaniment to meal times I think. To be honest in the past the news never bothered me as much, I seemed to be able to take it or leave it, probably part an parcel of being young is one doesn't pay a lot of attention to it. I suspect most people are a bit like that - the News may be on but their minds are on other things half the time. I wish I could be like that, but I seem to take on board everything. I think it began years when I thought I was too unconcerned and uncaring about what was happening in the world, and I made myself take more notice, but after a bit I became very depressed and pessimistic, and nihilistic and unbelieving. I was drifting spiritually and my mental health was never great.
My argument for not watching is that I think its beyond most peoples capacity to cope with hearing all that is going on on a daily basis. I don't say one should never watch or read it. I began to suspect also some of the News coverage (and TV in general) was somewhat brain washing and manipulative.
At the present I have lost interest in nearly everything, I cannot pray, I feel like a hypocrite, I wonder if I ever really believed. Some days I spend a lot of it in bed, mainly because I sometimes sit up at night surfing the net, everything from WatchMojo to reading intellectual stuff. I have no social contacts, no work, am on two medications, about the only person I talk to regularly is my mum.
There has got to be good stuff happening, but how much does one hear about on the news.
I think the internet may be worse in a way, depending on where one surfs with all the conspiracy theorists and cranks having a platform, but there is a lot of useful stuff on it too.
My argument for not watching is that I think its beyond most peoples capacity to cope with hearing all that is going on on a daily basis. I don't say one should never watch or read it. I began to suspect also some of the News coverage (and TV in general) was somewhat brain washing and manipulative.
At the present I have lost interest in nearly everything, I cannot pray, I feel like a hypocrite, I wonder if I ever really believed. Some days I spend a lot of it in bed, mainly because I sometimes sit up at night surfing the net, everything from WatchMojo to reading intellectual stuff. I have no social contacts, no work, am on two medications, about the only person I talk to regularly is my mum.
There has got to be good stuff happening, but how much does one hear about on the news.
I think the internet may be worse in a way, depending on where one surfs with all the conspiracy theorists and cranks having a platform, but there is a lot of useful stuff on it too.
