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Originally Posted by Boomer
Maybe it's time to think about stepping away from that television "news" -- spun to make viewers angry.
Ever notice how those obscenely paid "news" deliverers hammer -- hammer-- hammer -- tapping into the emotional part of their viewers' brains -- winding up their fans into a heightened state of negative emotion (anger, panic, fear, paranoia)?
Sometimes that constant pounding will tip viewers into a state of urgency -- gotta do something, gotta do it NOW.
Ironically, that constant tapping into negative emotion is the same method used by scammers -- but those who buy into it on a screen of their own choice can't seem to see the parallels. It's all emotional manipulation for money, lots of it. All from the same playbook.
I know someone whose husband spends so much time in front of television "news" that it is changing his personality by negatively affecting his mood, day after day. She cannot convince him to connect the dots, to see the cause-and-effect -- and turn off that &%$#ing television.
Lucy Boomer (Advice 5 Cents)
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Facebook uses sophisticated, SECRET programming to try to KEEP users on for longer and longer periods of time. Thus exposing them to more advertisements. They have found that anger and other emotions get users to move away from the middle of the road to more and more extremes of thought. And NOT just Facebook. When this programming strategy aligns with users with mental problems, then society suffers. I believe that the US is experiencing a large number of murders and serious crime to start 2023. And 2022 had those same problems.
.......I believe that America is doing a worse job of controlling internet media that the Europeans. Also, we lead the world in FIREARMS by a HUGE margin. that is another factor that works against the US.