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jtolbertjr's avatar

100%. Luckily, I'm of a generation before social media reduced our brain mass. Reading books, articles, magazines, and listening to radio, now podcasts gave me foundational knowledge. That future-proofed me against propaganda. Rolf Dobelli said it best, "The less news you consume, the bigger the advantage you have. News has no explanatory power. News items are bubbles popping on the surface of a deeper world."

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Moira O'Neill's avatar

Reactive vs reflective thinking. How about President Teddy Roosevelt spending weeks on a train crossing the country to overnight under the stars with John Muir in Yosemite? Undisturbed by the lack of technology, that trip full of talk, contemplation and awed silence produced the jewel of U.S. policy and culture: our system of national parks.

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