Making Sense of It All

We talked about being jerked around last time. Our focus is the various media inputs that we allow ourselves to be subjected to. Let's pick up from there with some additional suggestions about how we can wrest control of our lives from these digital inputs that range from time-wasters, to manipulative machinations, even to downright evil. We've successfully extricated ourselves from excessive time checking local and national news. (You have done that, right?) Now let's look at those other "news" sources many of us access. Such sources have grown exponentially since many of us began to look askance at what is now termed "major," or "legacy," or "mainstream" media. The rejection of these has created a whole palette of "alternative" media. Many of these have become the new tar-babies that cling to us, once we allow them into the sacred space of our minds and souls.  It's one thing to seek sources of information that expand ...