I hate the media maybe more than anything, like I want to put my ss uniform on and stomp heads kind of hate. However, my suggestion to you is that you fight this urge to think that everything we experience is a sea change from history. Or put another way, your perception of media magnification is also likely amplified. Read some Twain on the media, the dynamics we complain about aren't new. Our obsession with the news of the day isn't new either. Again just like the trading it's much faster now, but Western society was absolutely glued to their newspaper before electricity was even invented and town criers before that and the rumor mills in pubs and royal courts before that. While I'd Lithose your ear off in person I'm not particularly inclined to being verbose online plus its probably not well suited to this thread but I'll leave you with the general idea of trying to understand human behavior, it's cycles, what drives it and less time on getting caught up on it's tidal motion in the moment. The more things change the more they stay the same. It's all a hysterical comedy of Humanity the Play being orchestrated for generation upon generation with exciting prop changes on each re enactment.
