How much real information is missing in the nightly snooze?

Well, a lot. Would it be a stretch to say that "content" is mostly propaganda and entertainment to keep us uninformed and addled? From my perspective, no, it is not. 

I first started noticing this information vacuum when I came home for the summer from boarding school in the 11th and 12th grades. There was one TV at boarding school in the rec hall, and a number of students were huddled around it, and a few others that were playing pool (billiards). 

I was, thankfully, one of those.

And then home for the summer I would see my father mother and sister huddled around the TV every evening. Meanwhile I'm headed out the door, sprung from boarding school, to have an adventure out in the non-boarded real world. I learned a lot doing that, some of it the hard way, the knowledge that sticks.

Now what? Enter the internet, Google, and then YouTube. People say the internet is full of emotionally damaging specious garbage, to which I say, yeah, so don't look at that crap. Here's but one example of the kind of thing we do not learn from the snooze:

What China Found on The Moon

Wikipedia says Pandora's box is a metaphor for something that brings about great troubles or misfortune, but also holds hope. In the myth Pandora was the first woman on earth.

What we consume for entertainment (politics?) and intellectual stimulation is mostly within our control. It's an interesting time to be alive, but I suppose that can be said of any time. Being here, so to speak, is simply interesting.

So don't watch that snooze crap. Netflix is OK, but choose wisely:)