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That being said though it is good to be informed about politics as it is useful in your everyday life like the impact it has on your finances, local laws, etc. Debates are a waste of time and mental effort. >27342 >I reccomend not getting into reading politics if your main goal is some sort of fantasy of going into debates with people (both irl and online) and walking away more informed or even converted the other person. Book learning and experience are both valuable, and neither one is a substitute for the other. Never minding the fact that most of itвЂ™s articles are written by naive undergrads and could easily have been written by a high-schooler Sorry for the rant but it just bugs me how people would just pick up a copy of вЂњeconomist magazineвЂќ and act sophisticated and informed (вЂњmatureвЂќ) just because they gloss over it. Online communities dedicated to discussing politics usually dissolve into flamewars and restrictions put into place where one side calls censorship or circle-jerks around one specific ideology/interest. There are also the academics who read more than anything else but they usually dont try to communicate their thougts to the public due to a variety of reasons. ItвЂ™s not to say you need to read a whole academic paper to understand the effects of climate change for instance but having a quick infotainment article trying to explain the tax-code in a tweet with emojis is another problem. Most articles by вЂњjournalistsвЂќ these days are written by 20 something youth who usually majored in journalism, communications etc and usually lack experience in the field they are covering (ie not вЂњmatureвЂќ) this is especially true for finance/econ. And this is not some self-serving rant trying to make myself look into some galaxy brain intellectual. Most of the popular media covering politics (at-least in the English speaking west) is awful in terms of depth and lacks sophistication. They do read heavily into media (and the occasional book) about politics as itвЂ™s a interest to them but herein lies a problem. Rest of the 10% do admit that theyвЂ™re вЂњa person into politicsвЂќ but that mostly dissolves into either someone who posts nothing but politics stuff on their fb/twitter and annoys everyone or posting a selfie from some protest everyone will forget 2 days later. Its not that theyвЂ™re ignorant but by their own admission they just donвЂ™t care much.

BADPHILOSOPHY NOT EVEN WRONG TV

90% of the people (many of them mature with their own mature obligations) donвЂ™t care much about politics beyond sound-bytes that can be recycled on late-night satirical tv or glossing over the newspaper. Also lol just lol at the thought that being into politics makes you вЂњmatureвЂќ.

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