I didn't discount it because of what you wrote.

I discounted it because I regularly watched both Whitney and TFTC before. Along with the corbett report, George Gammon and a plethora of other sources and I used to share your feeling of helplessness and dread against it all.

I'm not telling you to stop sharing nor what you should or shouldn't watch (afterall if you hadn't posted, I wouldn't have responded 🙃).

I have recognised for myself that keeping up with it all is inversely correlated with personal happiness and simply does not enrich my life.

As it is all part of an overarching incentive game it will just play out. Yes the american empire is in decline, no it won't be pretty, yes some will suffer for it but overall we will be ok.

If you think that's apathy I'd like you to imagine that people went through the exact same commotions when the british empire "fell". Whilst the current news wants you to believe that the situation over there is dire since brexit, I can assure you that there are very few people over there who would trade their current life for one in mid 19th century britain.

So with my newfound time and freedom from not worrying so much I currently spend most of it on learning about anthropology and biology since that intrests me all of the sudden. Your recently shared video on electroceuticals fit right in so thanks again for that!

Not paying attention to news has therefore become a conscious strategy for me and in addition to making my life happier and less stressful also allowed me to see much larger pictures by thinking things through on my own. I do still get a general picture from twitter but I blocked all accounts that bombard me with "BREAKING" statements and try to reduce my time spent over there.

If you want to find signal I recommend watching as many interviews Jeff Booth gave as you can.
I've rewatched a lot of them and many of the snippets of wisdom didn't click for me the first few times and those interviews along with his book helped raise my level of consciousness much more than anything else I had consumed before.

He also has a great list of books on his website that is well worth anyones time to at least pick and chose from (I wish I had kept such a list but alas I don't recall which books influenced me the most but I started one now!).

Other than that it really pays to understand incentive systems, game theory and spiral dynamics as they apply to everything.

Here are some blog posts well worth reading:

https://www.jeffbooth.ca/post/finding-signal-in-a-noisy-world
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/02/07/what-is-spiral-dynamics-and-why-have-i-become-so-interested-in-it/