Hi,
The news ingestion of Americans is for problem number one. It not only misdevelops their brains so they are incapable of discerning truth and reality--in a sense fully crippling the ability to critically think; but it also blinds them to the real problems--which is the purpose of it to begin with. I have a lot of recent essays about this but I wanted to share a few here if you don't mind.
https://medium.com/free-thinkr/the-right-is-suess-esque-and-the-left-mimes-525b799245bb
https://medium.com/the-innovation/fox-news-is-a-cult-d305885d3606
Sorry. I am always uncomfortable sharing my own stories--but this is one of the reasons we are here )