Cable News

If you watch cable news for extended periods of time, you're not 'really' that bright. Of course this goes for "network news" as well, or any other industry that behaves in a similar manner.

It should take you 5 seconds to realize that it's not worth your time to listen to someone like Stephen Hadley. These are actors, playing the part of "serious, concerned citizen leaders". It's a game, and they get a hearty laugh at the idea that people take them seriously. Their only incentive is to self-aggrandize and to set themselves up to make more money, preferably money forcefully taken from others via government force. You think it's more "high-minded" than that. It is not, and you can't deal with that fact.

The industry has little to no value. It is a self-perpetuating bubble designed only to gain access to cocktail parties and state dinners. They accomplish nothing. Of course, it's not their job to accomplish anything. It's their job to get eyeballs, in order to get advertising money. If you think there is something worthwhile going on there, you're simply not able to be honest with yourself. You have a void and you are filling it with psuedo-intellectual junk food and you should grow up.

Stop watching. Do something more useful with your time. Get a hobby. I guarantee you that if you abstain for a day, a week, a month, 6 months, a year, you will be able to click back briefly and see the exact same conversations, featuring almost the exact same characters, spouting the exact same nonsense, pretending in the exact same way to care whether they are correct or not, with the hosts pretending in the exact same way about the "substance" of the discussion.

The only difference is that you might have a nice beautiful garden to enjoy in the meantime, rather than telling yourself "I'll get to that as soon as I learn this right wing/left wing radio/tv host how wrong he is!!!! Imma learn him with an email." LOL

Yeah, you and a few hundred thousand other nobodies about whom the hosts could not care less. "Thanks for watching/listening. Click here for the premium membership."