I Become What I Consume

Koolio, Monday the 24th of March 2025 and you know what, like the news has always been interesting. I've always found the news interesting. Maybe I might be a little bit dishonest in kind of like sharing that sentiment because as a child I detested the news.

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But if there's one thing that always interested me about the news was how it gripped the attention of my dad. Like my dad always spent the time, spent his time watching the news, where as a child I always asked myself why I watched the news, where you can effectively spend your time just watching cartoons, effectively things that are light-hearted and things that just kind of make you smile and make you laugh and stuff like that. Now as an adult, again, do I kind of watch the news? Not exactly. I pay attention to some of the things that are happening I

suppose I keep up to date with certain things and stuff like that but you know I also understand that the news is an instrument an instrument that is being applied

by you know the people who are effectively kind of like commandeering it and managing it and uh you know it invokes certain emotions emotions and uh if anything what it does is it it it

it's an instrument that effectively kind of like, creates a, not necessarily creates a trajectory but it tells people what to pay attention to. Right? You turn on the news and it's telling you to pay attention to a given

subject or a given topic and it's this element, it's this power that

this instrument has that I

And there's a lot of people at the moment when I say there's a lot of people like you know it's become apparent to me that you know some people I suppose are now becoming very you know very interested in things that really and

truthfully yes whilst it is important and focus away from the things that focus away from the things that actually kind of like have a very