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CitizenPedro | 1 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +4 
 Going back memory lane, does anybody remember or noticed how Covid ended with the Ukraine war?

All of a sudden in February/March 2022, Covid silently ends. What changed? TVs stopped focusing on Covid and instead focused on the Ukraine-Russia war.

This shows that most people do live by what the TV tells us. In other words, TV was and still is the main window to reality. People believe and do what mainstream TV tells them to do (especially the newspapers). If the TV is telling us there's a problem then there's a problem.

This decoupling will take decades and there will be many ramifications. 

There are many ramifications.

#bitcoin #politics #libertarian #covid #media #tv
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stavros | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I noticed people were already not as excitable about it, so the media needed fresh drama to hype.
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CitizenPedro | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Exactly, yeah.

Drama and comedy rule the world...
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CamiloJdL | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Those who tell the story rule society. 
Plato
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CitizenPedro | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Exactly.

We have to find a way to tell more stories to the world.
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c4bf9fff | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My thoughts exactly. 

Russia Gate 2016-2020
Race Riot 2019-2020
Covid 2019-2022
Ukraine-Russia 2022-2025
…insert disaster…. 2025-2027