/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

What are some strategies to fight novelty politik?

I.e. The tendency to consume politics like fast fashion. The tendency to grow fatigued that ongoing issues are still being talked about. The tendency try and develop, articulate and rally identity with an opinion on a subject one is newly made aware of not only within the day, but instantaneously. The desire to consume more news before you've properly digested and made essay of all prior news you've been exposed to. Apathy to critical questions regarding the news one allows oneself to be exposed to--authorial intent, authorial incentive, target audience, practical value, redundancy, source, framework of analysis, limitations of medium, etc...--and a lack of foresight to archive works that one allowed to impact one's worldview.

I usually try to tell people to touch digital grass--use RSS feeds, get off the twitters and tiktoks and such, use activitypub instead, get into web surfing and bookmarking stuff, etc...--but that's not a comprehensive solution, I still find myself doing much of the above. Every such suggestion feels like a massive lifestyle change because the default they deviate from is indeed a lifestyle: one of gambling for hope on a machine that doesn't dispense, and living as actor within said media oneself in evangelism of it's theatre until not one person left on this planet is not a news anchor, commentator or activist. That to know what's happening is one through the glory of winning a debate and picking the flavor of news that caters to your fellow debatewinners. It's sickening.