The School of Life | The News is Driving you INSANE @theschooloflifetv | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
We are used to thinking of what we call the news as a tool that can help us to vanquish ignorance. But what it continuously - albeit slyly - does is encourage us to forget entirely what we actually feel in relation to certain events and crucially why that is so important.
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“We are used to thinking of what we call the news as a tool that can help us to vanquish ignorance: we will, thanks to its updates, properly understand what is going on and where importance lies. But if we examine the role of this phenomenon with greater scepticism, we may find that it is as responsible for blinding us to ourselves as for introducing us to the complexities of so-called reality…”
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Title animation produced in collaboration with
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We are used to thinking of what we call the news as a tool that can help us to vanquish ignorance. But what it continuously - albeit slyly - does is encourage us to forget entirely what we actually feel in relation to certain events and crucially why that is so important.
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FURTHER READING
You can read more on this and other subjects here: bit.ly/3HEQQn3
“We are used to thinking of what we call the news as a tool that can help us to vanquish ignorance: we will, thanks to its updates, properly understand what is going on and where importance lies. But if we examine the role of this phenomenon with greater scepticism, we may find that it is as responsible for blinding us to ourselves as for introducing us to the complexities of so-called reality…”
MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE
Watch more films on SELF in our playlist:
bit.ly/TSOLself
SOCIAL MEDIA
Feel free to follow us at the links below:
Facebook: facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon
X: twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife
Instagram: instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon
CREDITS
Produced in collaboration with:
Jesse Collett
jessecollett.co.uk
Title animation produced in collaboration with
Vale Productions
valeproductions.co.uk
