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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: arun gera who wrote (6008)	7/26/2020 3:38:07 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13801

TV lowered the bar. Social media took a bar, that was already low, and brought it straight down to the bottom of the barrel. Printed news were more attuned to reality. I was brought up reading a piece of printed paper. That is why I have never watched much TV for I knew it appeals to the uneducated. I used to hear people (during the 70s) repeating, parrot-like, what they saw on TV. When I tried to bring a new fact I used to be swamped by the voices around me as all of them listened and saw the very same news. And they thought themselves intelligent people and would contest everything I would say to them. There I was. A guy who lugged books to the field and having a discussion with people who only watched TV. Guys who only read a piece of printed paper when they would go to a hair cut on a barbershop. I thought it could not get worse. But it did. Social media arrived and it appeals to the plain brain damaged. This spectacle of appealing to the lowest human emotions is a disgrace. A social media outlet publish a sound bite, being it "flatten the curve" or second wave" and people do not stop and think and seek information about what that means. They take like the Gospel.