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by api 69 days ago
You can do that yourself. Turn off mass media. I’ve done that almost entirely.

The answer is to be your own survivorship bias. Go dig and find good stuff.

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That's fine, if we only care about ourselves. I guess the harder part is convincing everyone else to unplug from mass media and not raise their kids on it.
Impossible without totalitarianism, which is its own somewhat different form of stupid.

Also for parents the game is keeping kids away from it, which is time consuming, and parents are often overworked and don’t have that time.