The current complex of institutions is simply toxic, and should be avoided whenever possible. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:

I want to urge as many people as possible, for the sake of their mental health, to step as far from the status quo as possible, and as soon as possible. The fact is that the government-academic-media-corporate complex (hereafter “the establishment”) has become a font of brain poison, and in fact has no other way to sustain itself.

Please bear in mind that it has been demonstrated, properly, that being under sustained fear is equivalent to brain damage, that watching “the news” is damaging to one’s mental health, and that social media is not only deeply addictive but causes depression and worse.

Here’s just one example to illustrate that the establishment delivers not just bad information, but brain poison:

A recent article in the Guardian, a major UK newspaper, responded to the protests of German farmers by declaring, repeatedly, that the farmers were refusing to “pay for their pollution.” The sanctimonious writer of those words expects farmers to grow immense amounts of food while never involving fields, fertilizers or machines. This post and many like it are the ravings of neo-intellectuals who’ve never built anything, but who get ahead by tearing things down. Reality is a non-factor in their pronouncements. The people who accept such ideas, then, are sowing unreality into a brain that struggles constantly to recognize reality. And so I think it’s quite fair to call this poison.

Please try to grasp that the people promoting this type of anti-reality will, if they can, destroy whatever stands in their way. These are the same people who wanted to deny medical care to anyone who dared disagree with them, and were happy if someone who didn’t comply with them died.

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