To be aware of what is really going on, limit the assaults on your senses and heavily filter what you let into your mind.
The mind has to “digest” what it has taken in. You need time to think about it.
Do not let the multitudes of forced stimuli in the modern environment persuade you otherwise.
Big filters equal clearer thoughts!
Since the election of the new president elect I have been doing some viewing of documentaries in a search for some sense of how things have gone and how this will go.
It is good mental practice to think of past, present, and future.
To that end I would suggest watching these two documentaries:
Requiem for the American Dream – Noam Chomsky identifies what has happened to the American way of life as it was once known.
The Best of Enemies – Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. do intellectual debate. This centers on debates held by ABC news in 1968 at the Republican primary in Miami and at the Democratic primary in Chicago.
This will cause you to think about how things have changed!
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