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~tffb

yea, I make a clear (mental/personal) distinction between "shutting off" and "shutting down". I avoid news all the time (except to watch the FB death spiral and the Twitter/Musk hell drama - I find entertainment there). I just read a lot of small blogs, and write a blog, and sometimes stop in at a forum throughout the day. Fall weather adds to the enjoyment of "personal" time. Best season.

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

I successfully avoided "the news" for a couple years, but recently bent over for it again due to what I want to call "becoming too alien", by which I mainly mean having too little basis for interaction with non-screen others.

Instead of going back and forth with others over the quark-splitting minutia of hyperbolic fictions, I was perpetually hearing and having to explain "What? You didn't know about *that*?", which was becoming a combination of boring and embarrassing.

So lately I began typing "news.google.com" and hitting <enter> again, then scrolling about so maybe a few ridiculous tidbits here and there would stick, allowing me to break into public musings about such at bars, wineries, while waiting in some line, etc.

And it works. I've found I no longer take any of it seriously for having become so strongly convinced it's all mostly N-th hand, "info-entropy" ridden fiction. And I'm used to others having faith in things/"facts" that they'd normally fall into hysterical fits of laughter over when on display by *others* in the form of faith in things they consider silly, e.g. "God", "Jesus".

So why not run with it? Why not engage? Why not enjoy becoming borderline theatric while verbally exploring the illogicity - if not the "woke"-centric unrighteousness (OH.. MY.. GOD..) - of it all, while inwardly smiling for having successfully gotten others to take it personally to the point of chest poundings, all the while remaining inwardly calm for realizing its fictional nature?

"CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE WHAT TRUMP DID NOW!"

"AND HOW OBVIOUSLY SENILE BIDEN IS?!??!??!"

"AND WHAT SUCH AND SUCH CELEBRITY SAID?!??"

OH...

MY...

GAWWWWWWWWWWWWD!!!!!

(hehehehehe)

(Of course, it helps immensely knowing all the while there's a place to escape from the aforementioned called Midnight Pub, where one can avoid such glassy-eyed, spittle-heavy "interaction".... <wraps arms around screen, squeezes, kisses its edge>)