Observations About the World, Part Thirty-Nine

Photograph of the Atlas globe

Should You Read the News?
Monday – July 20, 2026

Hysteria and fear are, of course, topics that I have written about in the past, but if there is something above all else in the modern world that encourages hysteria, fear, and anxiety, it must be the news cycle, filled with all sorts of irrelevant and nonsensical information, read "Navigating the Informational Landscape". Really, what most news source are is really nothing but a filter that effectively filters out information that may or may not be of some value and only leaves you with nonsensical information that is meant to "trigger" you, because of course, modern people are very easily triggered, read "Sentimentalism", and all the noise eventually becomes so much that most people become completely emotionally blunted on the outside and very easily controlled and manipulated by the same and recurring themes, and this has now reached the point where most people are so anxious that they simply do not know of a life in true calm. Indeed, most moderns would have to somehow travel back into their childhood to find even a small trace of tranquility, but even children today do not really get to experience calm and tranquility because they have to constantly engage in all sorts of micro activities designed to keep their tiny minds preoccupied, which really is stunting their growth and development; all this while their parents at the same time remain glued to an apparatus/device that does the same to them.

    Think about it: what is the purpose of you receiving all of the information that you do receive on a daily basis? The fact that there is an ongoing war in some distant corner of the world or even potentially one of those so-called genocides going on in Sudan? When in the history of the Sudan has there not been a conflict that would prompt the messianic morons in the west to call it a so-called genocide? Or perhaps the conflict in Palestine? Whatever the case, most people that live far away from these squabbles actually do not benefit in any way from receiving continual updates every second of the day; not even in the great and destructive conflagrations of the previous century was it ever the case that most supposedly "ordinary people" received constant and horrific updates about the progress of the war. No, the continual, or 24/7, news cycle is a very recent development, and when you combine that with the internet, you have created a force capable of destroying a lot of things, not the least a lot of humanity. Of course, you must understand that most of this happened on purpose; not on purpose to the extent that some people planned the development of the modern world to take this course, but rather that their efforts to control and to mechanize, read "Mechanism"—every aspect within their domain, within their reach—has created a system or what they believe to be a closed system where a hell on Earth has truly been created. In fact, some moderns will admit that the material conditions of the current world are more favorable than those of any other time previous, yet it seems that people are falling victims left and right to all sorts of mental issues and all sorts of pains that have been created for no apparent reason other than for the created need to "know more" and to feed the hormone called "dopamine". So, is it then the case that moderns are truly in control of their lives, of their destiny? Because it does seem that most modern would like to believe that they are in some kind of control, but it seems clearer and clearer yet for every passing day that they are in fact not in control, and this realization has also contributed, it seems, to more anxiety and to more existential currents that have weakened the mental constitution and fortitude of most modern men; really, today the standard mentality seems to be some kind of soft nihilism, read "My Views on Disease and Decay". So indeed, modern men are weak and they appear to be even weaker as it pertains to their mental constitution, which is also why it is so fancy to identify with all kinds of disabilities and disorders today. Also, the many people within media and news circles seem to approve of mass disability as an excuse for poor behavior and poor effort; now, in the past most of these people would not attempt to excuse themselves because they would have belonged to a proper guild. It seems absolutely degenerate and actually quite evil to excuse bad behavior with some kind of disability; at any rate, none of these people would have gotten away with it in the past, and besides it is not like most of these people actually suffer from a real disability, other than, of course, the modern mentality.

    Indeed, most news and media are designed to keep you trapped in a mental prison where you are unable to escape, but the curious thing is that most people could escape this prison if they wanted to, but you see, in order for most people to want something they need to become enlightened and encouraged, and in a world where information is monopolized and controlled, this can almost never happen. Verily, you could, in theory, escape the monstrosity of the modern world and of the media industrial complex, but actually doing so in practice would involve you slaying a beast, and more to the point it would involve you killing your own beast, the best within, something that most people simply do not have the strength to pull off, even if they had a small amount of encouragement on their side, not that it should take too much encouragement to get them to understand, but that would still depend on the person, read "Hierarchy". I never watch the news and I never read the news; instead I am forced to endure the news by simply being around too many people; this is why I seldom venture out into the world between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m., because I simply do not wish to be affected by and be made aware of the news. Yes, the news is a filter and a bad filter; not a bad filter because it functions poorly, but a bad filter because it is designed to evince within me and within all people a certain and preconceived reaction. Yes, the news is evil and the people that understand this but refuse to do anything about it are also evil – positively evil. It would also be quite accurate to label most people and their reactions – controlled and contrived. Yes, most people do not know of this, because they were never supposed to be too aware.

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – July 20, 2026.