Showerthought: The Media exists as a job program for psychopaths, because we don't know what else to do with them I mean we can't kill them We can't even identify them without widespread use of fMRI brain scanner or watching their malicious behavior over time (by then you've failed to protect society) We don't knwo what to do with them, so we put them in the media and let them lie and gaslight us, because we are too good a people to just put them down like old yeller; and we're far too protective of our privacy to allow brainscanning, even if it were voluntary Instead we put alexas in our house and carry around small listening posts that record everything we do and say and type and where we go and what we buy But heaven forbid someone take an otherwise meaningless picture of our brain activity to save 322M people from being completely destroyed by lies of a cabal of psychopaths Also, we pay them better than 99.99% of society for their disservice.  Very smart!