Disappointment and Devaluation
Watching my—mostly older—relatives allow themselves to become addicted to and manipulated by various media, and not just FOX, has caused a fundamental problem for me:
It devalued them for me.
I’m disappointed that they’re so dumb, manipulable, credulous, and, frankly, bad conversationalists/arguers. They’ve ended up violating some of the very principles of respect and civility (in service of expressing, so passionately, their newfound political feelings to whomever, and damn the consequences!) that they imparted to me, and their inconsistent, shifting beliefs, ignorance of our country’s history and framework, and lack of true values is a massive disappointment after a lifetime of thinking of them a certain way. “But it’s the other way”—Marlo.
This media era has caused me to never look at them (and people, at large) the same, again. They’re turning into huge disappointments: rage-aholics, defenders of awful people they’ve never met, parrots of the media and the state. What a sorry coda to the lives of people I looked up to in my youth.