Why You Should Avoid The News

By admin on July 1, 2012

Some time ago I stopped reading and watching the news. No newspapers, no news programs and no internet snippets of world drama. I stopped because I didn’t feel it had any positive effect on my life and I suspected it might even have a detrimental effect. Sometimes when watching or reading the news I felt myself anticipating for another big event in the world, something to shake the very core of my being. Other times I checked my smart-phone every hour to get my news-fix. Was I truly in need to know what comes through the filters of the media or was I just a news-junky?

I was expecting the latter. After some research I found some clues as to what happened. Our brain is wired to notice new things and ignore what we already know. We aren’t evolved to constantly admire the same things over and over again but to seek novelty in what has remained unexplored. And this novelty seeking, is quite addicting. When you are reading a new news article, or this article right now, your brain releases a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Dopamine doesn’t produce the feel good people normally associate with it, but it causes the craving for the feel good. This craving can even continue when the pleasurable effects of a stimulus are non-existent.

It is no wonder that almost every addiction we know of is in some way linked to the dopamine system. An internet addiction is very similar, dopamine wise, to food, sex or a drugs addiction. The effects of reading small sensationalist stories that don’t matter and don’t require any thinking is threefold. First, desensitization, the fact that you will crave more and intense stimulation over time and tend to neglect things that are more important to you. Second, sensitization, the phenomenon that in a certain contexts you become hyper-sensitive because you associate the situation with a dopamine release. For instance, you are much more likely to crave for a moment to check your e-mail if you spot a computer or a smart phone than if you are walking in nature. The third effect of an addiction is hypofrontality, atrophy of the frontal cortex, whereby the activity of the frontal lobes of the brain decreases which in turn makes it harder to control your impulses.

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JACOB ▲ CORTESI

March 7, 2012 at 5:47 pm

How hard is it to spread a word? Everyone just do your part and post this video via Facebook or Twitter. Social media news will spread a lot quicker than the TV.

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Deniece Thomas

March 7, 2012 at 6:27 pm

So we’ll spread the word. If Obama can capture Bin Laden he can get Joseph Kony. He can’t hide forever.

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- Secret
  
  March 7, 2012 at 6:55 pm
  
  Pakistani’s military found osama, by the way.
  and Yeah, i hope they do catch kony.
  
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Keeks60

March 7, 2012 at 9:32 pm

Go frame by frame from 1:40 to 1:41 of the video

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Joejac

March 7, 2012 at 9:51 pm

I am a Ugandan and I don’t put this on the Kony man who is just like the Bin Laden crap, our president is the work behind this Kony figure, and he is killing more people everyday but media don’t talk about this. The real dictator here is our current president and now this is just going to promote his brutality that is happening in all of Uganda.. Media crap. And hell I ain’t spreading this crap.

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- Guest
  
  March 8, 2012 at 4:26 pm
  
  http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhEk16p80re9j8X31h
  
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  - Joejac
    
    March 8, 2012 at 8:31 pm
    
    So this man meets him no one can catch him!!! this why I call crap, and I am mad because Museveni made the father of my children disappear 17yrs ago and killed my brother who fought his in war, for having a different opinion about his ruling, just like many others do, this Kony figure is no different from all the leaders of this world, perhaps Kony does what he does openly but the rest do their evils in the name of friendship… Every leader of today is KONY, period. They should all be caught at the same time with Kony…
    
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    - Joejac
      
      March 8, 2012 at 8:39 pm
      
      And I really don’t believe Kony is what they say he is, it the M7 doing all this and those elites behind him..
      
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  - Joejac
    
    March 8, 2012 at 8:50 pm
    
    Thanks for the link, now that one I shared..
    
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Joejac

March 7, 2012 at 9:54 pm

Now that there oil the Americans are interested…. Almighty help us..

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@anonymoUSunite

March 7, 2012 at 11:35 pm

Kony Video
22:23 – one eye flashed quickly
25:11 (woman on wall / face in man’s hand – one eye)
25:12 /\/ masonic logo
25:13 – one eye on wall
24:14 – eye on sheriff badge
25:15 – Obey (subliminal message) – the face of the logo [turn it upside down- mouth = eye]
25:37 – one eye covered
26:59 – 27:00 one eyed kanye west (flashed quickly)
**27:38 – triangle with “new world”

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- Truthseeker101
  
  March 8, 2012 at 2:32 am
  
  So you think this isn’t a good idea?
  
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  - David Anon
    
    March 15, 2012 at 7:19 pm
    
    No, it’s not a good idea. Fighting fire with fire only burns the world down. What’s needed is free access to all life’s essentials — food, water, and shelter, plus electricity and telecommunications — which would allow the Ugandan people to prosper and unite locally to resist tyrants like Joseph Kony. But this will never happen in a privatized, capitalist world.
    
    The intro to the movie is true; global communications is changing the way the world works, and people can taste the freedom. But their proposed solution, US military intervention in foreign affairs, will solve one problem while creating several more.
    
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- cd101
  
  March 9, 2012 at 5:22 am
  
  i noticed kanye west as well and I’m wondering why his picture flashed subliminally. this whole “corny” or “fony” movement seems to fishy
  
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- Ben Freemason Keesey
  
  March 22, 2012 at 9:02 am
  
  Damn son! You got a good eye for what they don’t want us to think twice about.
  
  You want to hear something fucked, that seemingly no one has even noticed?
  
  Ben Keesey, CEO of IC, rubs it in our faces that he is a freemason.
  
  We need everyone to come together and make a collection of links so the “profane” cannot deny the parallels.
  
  This page has been created as a means to bring the ESOTERIC symbolism within the viral Kony2012 video – and of which is promoted and/or practiced by the ‘culture makers’ and ‘policy makers’ featured on the website – into the view of the public
  
  facebook url follwed by: /Kony2012IlluminatiParallel
  
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Acefast Ipswich

March 8, 2012 at 4:10 am

i support Kony2012, freedom from fear for the children of Africa.

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- Zoethunder08
  
  April 5, 2012 at 11:11 pm
  
  I want to help get kony contact me at zoethunder08@yahoo.com I see what I can do
  
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Piter

March 8, 2012 at 6:58 am

Macedonian Desent Greek Cleopatra VII return in 2012 http://www.texemarrs.com/baals_shaft_promo.htm

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Im Kony

March 8, 2012 at 10:15 am

You ignorant fuckers.
All this time you speak of killing illuminati

Didn’t you learned shit ?
What if this guy is illuminati
(wich can’t be more obvious)
We’re dumb sheep led to believe that we caused this.
The thing is, usa is very concernd about africa.
Without africa no more
Cellphones,tv’s and all other 1st world crap. (someone has the work in the mines)

So i hope you enjoy you cool “id brace”
They’ve numberd you.

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Alina Arshi

March 8, 2012 at 1:20 pm

Can someone please explain me what the Illuminati is?

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- Zach Quick
  
  March 9, 2012 at 3:32 am
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO24XmP1c5E
  
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Guest

March 8, 2012 at 4:26 pm

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhEk16p80re9j8X31h

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Malik

March 8, 2012 at 8:12 pm

I have to admit I was very skeptical about the whole Illuminati involvement in this , at first that is….

After looking at the video on a closer level , there is just SO much subtle manipulation 0.0
I feel as though I am the only one in my surrounding to even notice this stuff , nobody responds to my criticism , my tweets are ignored.

Illuminati is winning now

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- Love12
  
  March 8, 2012 at 11:06 pm
  
  I saw what you wrote about it and I posted it too. ! These ppl are so blind.
  
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- Worldpeace_121
  
  March 10, 2012 at 5:20 am
  
  Malik I feel the same way, it seems people around me are so concernd with material shit shoved in their faces my corporations that can’t see the truth. i was once like that, but i have educated myself and now i do see that evil exists in this world, and I once was a part of that evil. but i was reborn and i believe in good, i learned about different world religions, which all have similar beliefs of equality, freedom, and justice. however most people do not see this, and easily dismiss it. i also believe they are winning.
  
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jp

March 9, 2012 at 3:37 am

27:07 – 27:37

Just listen to what the narrator says in these 30 seconds..

“The people of the world see eachother, and can protect eachother. It’s turning the system upside-down.”

Illuminati anyone..?

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Johan kronholm

March 9, 2012 at 12:55 pm

Wow, this really convinced this me,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSkDUhJVN7c

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Johan kronholm

March 9, 2012 at 4:48 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSkDUhJVN7c

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Worldpeace_4all

March 10, 2012 at 5:24 am

I believe this event is a test. A test to see how we can be manipulated/influenced/let to believe solely by social media. In 2011 we saw social media be used by many freedom fighter for good. And now “they” want to see how they can use it for their advantage. If you do not believe in Illuminati… type the letters backwards followed by a dot com. You will be taken to a Federal American Government Website HELLO!!!! WAKE UP FRIENDS!!

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JuN

March 10, 2012 at 8:58 am

is kony Dead.

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Janeking

March 11, 2012 at 12:53 am

‘the next “27″ minutes are an experiment’

(2+7) = 9

‘ all these efforts will culminate on one night, April 20th, 2012 “(04/20/2012)”

(0+4+2+0+2+0+1+2) = 11

9/11

Coincidence? You tell me.

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Arohighway

April 5, 2012 at 5:01 pm

It’s as well Kony 2012 was made. It was a good platform for suffering Ugandans to make the rest of the world know how we feel about their kindness.

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