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Originally Posted by venusss
So we turn off the news and let the situation deteriate? NO. I may have few mental quirks but i am still able to cast a vote, attend a protest, be part of a movement, sent a money to cause.
By turning off the news the violence will not disappear. Nobody will care I have depression or whatnot if they want to commit act of terror near me.
When you turn off the news, you get forwarded e-mails, facebook shares and "I heard they secretly bring here immigrants in night, so nobody knows!!!!!" from your neighbor or random person on the bus. And you will be so ignorant, you will fall for it.
Yes, the news from decent sources are bad, but bearable and don't **** with your mind.
Hybrid war attacks the vulnerable. It is aware of their "too depressed to watch the news", so it delivers the propaganda by other means. And don't tell me you don't go to Facebook or social media of any sorts and don't talk to any self-imposed political science experts of who just "know" and deliberatelly and gleefully pass on yet another hoax.
If somebody is depressed they should watch news for some 30 minutes a day, as it was done in old time and be aware that the mispelled powerpoints and baldy edited videos that land in your inbox are not true. The world will not end tomorrow, even if we are at war.
Look, you either are self-centered and you are not. If you are outwards centered person, even depression and what not will not make you not care. If you are happy/stuck in your own world... then well.
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I'm sorry if my post offended you, but it was not directed towards you at all. It wasn't even directed towards all mentally ill people as a whole. I've had personal experiences with reading the news and having break downs because of it. I don't need to read the news to know that people are being killed mindlessly by each other or that idiots are gaining power in politics.
Things they say on TV are almost as warped as, if not entirely, the same way things on the Internet are. Yes, trying to learn and understand the news from an unbiased source is important; yes, voting is important. Despite this, not everyone can keep up with the news or donate to charity. That doesn't necessarily make them self-centered, it just means they're looking after their health. There's a difference, especially since someone's mental health effects all of the people around them.