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Our News Diet Is Unhealthy.
How long can we last when everything is triggering?
I’ve consistently complained about the harmful ways we’ve been trained to consume news in this recklessly targeted system of online packaged Moments that hit all at once from every accessible corner.
We’ve gone from 0 to 100 in record time. And while 10 years ago, being aggressively courted for the present crisis seemed to be the revolutionary ticket to infinite possibilities, it’s hard to look back, and not beg for the return of law and order on all fronts.
The over-exposure at a fast and furious rate has created the inability to produce humane reactions, that must rely on addiction to emoticons for the job that our beating hearts are supposed to claim.
2020 has been one hell of a year, with the continued disastrous mechanisms of a rogue presidency gone amok.
President Donald Trump was hired to uphold the statutes of white supremacy, and when he proudly told the rowdy crowd at one of his many rallies that he was a white nationalist, he meant that shit.
White terrorism was always the preferred method of killing off Black and Brown populations, and now the American horror story has become a global emergency.
