The more I pause to reflect and process the workd we live in now, the more I become convinced quite a few of our modern day societal issues can be traced back to the origin of the 24-hour news cycle.
Specifically, because the news cycle always needed fresh content to show they would hyperfocus on the bad things happening in society which is what began laying the groundwork for the modern day “culture war” we now find ourselves in. All of this only served to lay the groundwork for a extremist figure to rise up and get power simply through their ability to utilize this controlled anger/social conditioning to their advantage.
So indirectly, one could argue that President Trump’s election as well as the battleground so many states seem to be in across multiple disciplines/fields (such as environment, LGBT, culture, reparations, etc) can be traced back to this news cycle which created a beast of people constantly only consuming bad information and not being properly counter-balanced with positive news as well.
As a culture, we consume more information in one day than a peasant in the 1500s did in their entire life, but at the same time one must remained socially/politically aware. So what does this mean? Well, one must learn to cultivate their feeds/information from reputable sources as well as limiting how much they consume in a day. RSS feeds might be the ideal solution to this problem.