Neo shares a commentator's observation and experience regarding Democratic voting family and friends and their devotion to "canonical" news sources like the NYT and WP.
They lack the awareness and curiosity to understand that there are better informed and truthful news sources and citizens.
I think the take away is to still engage them with the truth and consequences of the policies that they vote for, but don't waste any more time trying to "win" the argument.
I went back to some of the sources that I used to use on a regular basis, sources from APM or NPR, and immediately had to stop because they were being a bunch of idiots, uncritically accepting State numbers as true despite the fact that 11 of the 12 of the monthly numbers that they were talking about had been revised downwards.
Particularly for economics or finance news sources, for someone with a couple of brain cells to rub together if you are reading real news, you're going to get insights that let you make decisions in the real world. As an example, I read about the chocolate price exploding, and so I picked up a huge bulk thing of my wife's favorite chocolates on amazon. Immediately after the listing was taken down, presumably because they couldn't get the same stuff to sell at anything near the same price.
Same thing happened with energy, I acquired some gas cans and some gas right before the European energy crisis. Now I misread the tea leaves and didn't end up needing it because there was no energy crisis in america, but given the insane stories coming out of Europe at the time it would have been the right move.
The non-establishment media also was the ones who actually came up with an answer to the question I had when during the market collapse around covid, bond prices also collapsed. This is totally contrary to what we are told would happen by the establishment media, but Independent Media was right there explaining exactly why bonds had collapsed.
The media wasn't even remotely entertaining the idea that Central Bank interest rates could go up in 2020, but thanks to my exposure to Independent media, I understood that it was inevitable and so I paid a significant penalty to refinance my mortgage (in canuckistan 90% of mortgages are 5 year mortgage terms or less), and to do so at a 10 year term. Within a year or so most people will be refinancing their 2% mortgages at 6%, I've got a 2 tail on my mortgage rate until 2030.
Now that doesn't mean that The Independent Media always gets things right. You still need to consider all the possibilities and think for yourself. If you listen to Peter Schiff, gold was going up the whole way from 1900 an ounce to 1200 an ounce. The thing is, at least if you see all the things being reported on you can balance different stories and decide what seems the most likely to be true. With the establishment media it seems like all you end up getting is a bunch of people blindly going "good things are good! Bad things are bad!" In lockstep.
Particularly for economics or finance news sources, for someone with a couple of brain cells to rub together if you are reading real news, you're going to get insights that let you make decisions in the real world. As an example, I read about the chocolate price exploding, and so I picked up a huge bulk thing of my wife's favorite chocolates on amazon. Immediately after the listing was taken down, presumably because they couldn't get the same stuff to sell at anything near the same price.
Same thing happened with energy, I acquired some gas cans and some gas right before the European energy crisis. Now I misread the tea leaves and didn't end up needing it because there was no energy crisis in america, but given the insane stories coming out of Europe at the time it would have been the right move.
The non-establishment media also was the ones who actually came up with an answer to the question I had when during the market collapse around covid, bond prices also collapsed. This is totally contrary to what we are told would happen by the establishment media, but Independent Media was right there explaining exactly why bonds had collapsed.
The media wasn't even remotely entertaining the idea that Central Bank interest rates could go up in 2020, but thanks to my exposure to Independent media, I understood that it was inevitable and so I paid a significant penalty to refinance my mortgage (in canuckistan 90% of mortgages are 5 year mortgage terms or less), and to do so at a 10 year term. Within a year or so most people will be refinancing their 2% mortgages at 6%, I've got a 2 tail on my mortgage rate until 2030.
Now that doesn't mean that The Independent Media always gets things right. You still need to consider all the possibilities and think for yourself. If you listen to Peter Schiff, gold was going up the whole way from 1900 an ounce to 1200 an ounce. The thing is, at least if you see all the things being reported on you can balance different stories and decide what seems the most likely to be true. With the establishment media it seems like all you end up getting is a bunch of people blindly going "good things are good! Bad things are bad!" In lockstep.
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