docu-mental: mapping the american states of mind

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Willingly, consistently traumatized:

Why do some like having 'the news' shouted at them?

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Whitney McKnight
Jul 03, 2022
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vol. 4 issue 15

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Greetings,

Here’s an observation:

Millions of people in this nation, and elsewhere on the globe, who routinely tune into a certain infotainment network, are tuning in, ostensibly of their own free will, to have information SHOUTED at them. Why?

All that shouting is most certainly causing a cortisol and ad…

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