How do you manage your media consumption during times of crisis? Either you manage it or the lie machine will manage it for you.
I want to look at media that keeps me from getting beaten down, defeated, and turned indifferent. I want to stay light-hearted, as crazy as that sounds. It almost sounds disrespectful of all the serious suffering in the world. But a human being cannot stand too much earnestness or sententiousness.
For instance I am rereading Robert Massie's "Peter the Great." All the news from Ukraine, grim as it is, makes this book more interesting. Peter's first military success was near the coast of the Sea of Azov, a body of water most Americans never heard of until a couple weeks ago. But then somebody threw a switch in the Lie Machine, and now, millions of info-peasants think the Sea of Azov is of crucial importance to them.
Another example is this video of an Indian journalist talking back to a Western professor. Damn, this video made me feel good!
(Don't push the "play" arrow on the screen save, above. Click on the link in the blue letters above the screen shot.)
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They have cooled their dispute with China which is very bad News for the United States State Department which wanted them to be at each others throat. The Empire just can't catch a break and it seems to all unraveling.
We do live in interesting times!