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Wouldn't unplugging and "looking at the world around you with your own eyes" provide a hopelessly narrow and biased slice of objective reality? Why should anyone expect their immediate, physically accessible surroundings and specific lived experience to generalize to entire societies, let alone the globe?

I'd recommend a deliberate analysis and culling of your information sources, not a complete disengagement.

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No, I think it would help you engage in with your local community and ground your thinking in a very practical and meaningful reality. I think too many people are focusing on large scale abstract problems that don't actually have the impact on their life that it seems when you ingest too much media.

I wouldn't call it disengagement, I'd call it re-engagement with the real world.

Sure, and then the already privileged people on HackerNews end up continuing to blindly exploit the under-privileged in developing nation. That sounds like a horrible solution.

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