Get News on the Internet and Avoid Cable Television
The goal of Cable Television is to force-feed you content, instead of having you actively decide or evaluate choices. This trains you to accept authority, as eventually the two choices can turn to one.
In his famous book from 1928 titled “Propaganda”, Edward Bernays, who produced media for the United Fruit Company (and therefore the CIA), to overthrow Latin American governments, pushed the idea that propaganda ought to reduce the choices the consumer make. He promoted the idea that propaganda should push the consumer down to binary thinking.
Even if you were to decide between which websites to stream from, that would be better than just turning on the Cable TV and consuming whatever is on. Because the internet forces you to research options from an infinite dataset and then make a choice, which is training your mind to question and consider alternatives.
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