Your writing is truly captivating and perfectly resonates with the concepts and ideas I have been immersed in over the past few days. (though I learned them through past years but lately I had them in my mind and you spoke my mind and made me happy)
Two days ago, I wrote lyrics about the media, division, and the powers that control everything (I will publish it later with a music performance). and also, Today I was reading about a philosophy that you also mentioned in your post: 'I like to focus more on the things that I have control over. I don't let myself get too swept up in the narratives that are being spun.' Though this sentence, along with your entire paragraph, is more complete, this concept is really important, and I noticed that it is called 'Stoicism.
I am happy to see clever people like you who understand what is really going on in the world and not choosing things blindly, I am facing similar things in my country Iran, some people in Europe or USA might think oh these problems are only in our country, but for example, the problem about Immigrants also exist in Iran, we have immigrants from other countries, we hear bad news about them, like in news they say: an Immigrant killed 5 Iranians in Tehran city, and later I see some of my people who became angry and say: we should destroy them all!! they are evil!! (all Immigrants good or bad) (just like what I heard from an American guy who was angry about some criminal immigrants and wished them all death (all Immigrants good or bad) (which I believe they were planned to do what they were doing to create hate between people))
and later I heard same news about Germany, Austria (an Asylum killed people) and I say what is going on? why suddenly these immigrants and asylums become crazy? it is like if someone send specific forces with missions to do these things. (just when big powers need to change governments and leaders to give reasons to a side)
Sorry I didn't mean to bring another news here, but I was just explaining how media affect our minds, to a point that people hate another race for crimes which happened to number of fingers, suddenly everyone label millions of people from another race, and they imagine the other race are zombies. this is what I am trying to tell people to know that there are good people between bad people in any country and race.
Thanks for your great post <3
Thank you @davidfar for sharing with me, the media really does pit us against one another and it makes me happy to know that I am not alone in thinking this. That's what I love about Hive, is the opportunity to interact with people from all over the word and actually hear the truth of what is happening xx
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