 Life is all about entertainment and so on. You ever wonder if like the news of the world, the news of the world is just one big movie script? Hey there, njroot22.com here with a little bit of a, of a societal vlog. And we're gonna talk about news and how you watch it, how we consume it or address it, and how the rest of the world looks at news. News as Steve Carell said in the Anchorman, or whatever that was, what movie that was. It wasn't Anchorman, it was some sort of other movie. I forget what it was. But anyway, we're fascinated by news. I mean, we do scan the headlines just to get a pulse on what is happening around us because you need some sort of awareness to kind of navigate the world. You need to know what the loonies are talking about, whether it's protests in the progressive cities on the left coast or whatever, they're getting angry about something. To other fear-based news, whether it's crime, guns, what you do with your body, with your fetus, and all sorts of other things, and all sorts of geopolitical issues like borders, wars, and all sorts of humanitarian issues going on. And people just, you ever hear the phrase, oh, I got to catch up on the news? Why? You don't really have to. What you need to catch up on is your own life and the things that you do, whatever your job is, whatever your family, whatever kind of family you have, and the things that you buy and consume. And of course, yeah, that's the economic news. So, yeah, every little news story has a bunch of people, I guess, the audience watching it or participating. The stock market has their own people, all talking about rate cuts, and then you have the political, I guess you call them groupies. It's sort of like watching sports. This is why I think it's kind of scripted. You got your Boston Red Sox, which is I guess the Liberals, and then the Yankees, for instance, or the Conservatives, and everybody's in their camp. They don't really care what's going on or which players are on the team. You notice how the players constantly change, but they're still rooting for that team. And I guess that's what the left and right does, or the Democrats and Republicans, whatever you want to label them as. But I just wonder, like, does anybody ever think in their own mind, like, why am I participating in this? Why don't I have my own little movie script to live in and not worry about what they're talking about, which really boils down to people who are just talking about things that may or may not be happening in the world or the state or the country or whatever part of the globe that you live on. So if you ever step back and say, why am I watching this? Why do I care? How does it affect me and my family? And naturally, there are some things that do affect you and your family. And those things you can't really control a lot of times, like weather. I mean, okay, here comes the weather. Hopefully I've prepared myself and I have a strong enough house and I've taken care of the things I need to take care of to be prepared for the unknown. But I mean, how much of the news that you watch, like whether it's celebrity gossip or whatever it may be or the next new iPhone that comes out, I mean, does it really matter? I mean, that news, if it's important enough, will always find you. Let's say there's a big tsunami coming. I'm fairly certain you don't need to watch TV to know that it's coming to hit you because other people will be running in the other direction. And you don't really need to know what's going on. And a lot of times, even with weather, there's no difference. Oh, a severe tornado watch, 99 out of 100 or 999 out of 1,000 times, nothing bad happens. It's just like a fear program. So I'm just wondering how many people will ever take a step back and say, why am I watching this? And I guess most of the people, if they're honest with themselves, have that there's a psychological addiction to it. Oh, I want to see what's next. This is why social media is so popular and hard to break, the habit's very hard to break, is because it's what's next. It's this human need to get something new. And I find it fascinating. I think news is a bad way of getting that fix for getting something new because it doesn't really augment your life. You don't become more intelligent or more capable or more productive because you watch the news. And this is exactly why our method of watching news isn't watching talking heads debate something. And most of the time that too, we believe is scripted or they're talking about something or have a viewpoint for a particular reason. It's usually to benefit someone else or someone else's movement. We subscribe to various news organizations via RSS Reader on our internet browser. We use a program called Inno Reader. I subscribe to even points of view that I don't necessarily agree with because I want to know what the rest of the world is thinking because that'll help you be more prepared in case something does happen. But it's not even about that. The more you know about the world around you, the more intelligent choices you can make day to day. You can just know who to avoid and what things are not good. So we just scan the headlines from like an eagle on a perch somewhere. We just want to see what's going on. We don't get into the nitty-gritty who said why, he said this, oh my God, we don't really care because none of that stuff affects us. So I think everybody should take a step back from the news and start reading more important things or watching more important things like how to improve your life or save money or to make things more sensible. And this isn't about apps, by the way. I can just press a button because you're relinquishing control and you're reducing brain power when you put too much reliance into apps and other technology like automatic light bulbs and thermostats and stuff like that. DIY, do it yourself and you feel better, you sleep better and so on. Just get static out of your mind and focus on things. And by the way, this isn't TV shows. Even though some are good, you can find some actually helpful things if you really want to watch something passively. You can find really good content creators on YouTube. It's just a matter of sorting through the fluff to avoid people who are doing it purely for making money for themselves or they really just want to help others by sharing their wisdom for posterity and for the record before it gets memory-hold. I don't know. So that's it. Reduce your news, especially those cable channels and so on. So that's my little rambling for today. 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